Newhart (1982)

Comedy

Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George Utley is the handyman at the inn and Leslie Vanderkellen is the maid, with ambitions of being an Olympic Ski champion; she is later replaced by her cousin Stephanie, an heiress who hates her job. Her boyfriend is Dick's yuppie TV producer, Michael Harris. There are many other quirky characters in this fictional little town, including Dick's neighbors Larry, Darryl, and Darryl...three brothers who buy the Minuteman Cafe from Kirk Devane. Besides sharing a name, Darryl and Darryl never speak.

IMDb rating: 7.8 (9,520 votes)
Episode average: 7.4 -0.4 vs IMDb
Seasons: 8
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1982)

7.38 avg 22 episodes 7.5 → 8.3 30 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	In the Beginning	7.5	262
2	Mrs. Newton's Body Lies A-Mould'ring in the Grave	8.2	231
3	Hail to the Councilman	7.6	183
4	Shall We Gather at the River?	7.4	170
5	This Probably Is Condemned	6.8	170
6	No Tigers at the Circus	7.3	125
7	The Perfect Match	7.0	146
8	Some Are Born Writers... Others Have Writers Thrust Upon Them	6.9	142
9	No Room at the Inn	8.0	148
10	The Senator's Wife Was Indiscreet	6.8	141
11	Sprained Dreams	7.4	139
12	The Way We Thought We Were	7.2	135
13	The Visitors	7.1	137
14	What Is This Thing Called Lust?	7.5	151
15	Breakfast Theatre	6.4	139
16	Ricky Nelson, Up Your Nose	7.7	143
17	A View from the Bench	7.5	138
18	The Boy Who Cried Goat	7.6	129
19	Heaven Knows Mr. Utley	7.5	140
20	You're Homebody 'til Somebody Loves You	7.3	127
21	Grandma, What a Big Mouth You Have	7.4	130
22	I Enjoy Being a Guy	8.3	151

Season 2 (1983)

7.42 avg 22 episodes 6.7 → 7.3 30 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	It Happened One Afternoon: Part 1	6.7	139
2	It Happened One Afternoon: Part 2	6.9	125
3	Animal Attractions	7.4	123
4	The Stratford Wives	7.3	118
5	The Girl from Manhattan	7.2	117
6	Don't Rain on My Parade	7.8	126
7	Lady & the Tramps	8.2	129
8	The Man Who Came Forever	6.4	114
9	The Looks of Love	6.9	116
10	Kirk Goes for the Juggler	7.4	118
11	Jug of Wine, Loaf of Bread & Pow	7.3	114
12	Cats	7.3	107
13	Curious George at the Firehouse	7.5	108
14	Book Beat	8.4	129
15	Kirk Pops the Question	7.0	107
16	Best Friends	7.3	106
17	Kirk Ties One On	7.8	119
18	Go, Grandma, Go	7.4	110
19	Leave It to the Beavers	7.8	111
20	Vermont Today	8.5	145
21	Send Her Ella	7.5	114
22	New Faces of 1951	7.3	101

Season 3 (1984)

7.65 avg 22 episodes 7.6 → 8.1 30 min avg

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Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Tell a Lie, Get a Check	7.6	116
2	Twenty Year Itch	7.4	86
3	A Hunting We Will Go	7.4	96
4	Miss Stephanie	7.9	96
5	But Seriously, Beavers	7.5	104
6	Tickets, Please	7.5	107
7	Poor Reception	7.6	105
8	The Fan	7.3	106
9	Happy Trials to You	7.6	98
10	Georgie's Girl	7.0	96
11	Pillow Fight	7.5	85
12	Local Hero	7.6	100
13	Dick Gets Larry's Goat	7.9	108
14	Once I Had a Secret Love	7.6	96
15	Lady in Wading	7.6	100
16	Look Homeward, Stephanie	7.6	111
17	My Fair Larry	8.2	113
18	You're Nobody 'til Somebody Hires You	7.6	106
19	Out with the New, Inn with the Old	7.6	105
20	R.I.P. Off	8.0	111
21	The Prodigal Darryl	8.2	125
22	What Makes Dick Run	8.1	99

Season 4 (1985)

7.61 avg 24 episodes 8.1 → 7.9 30 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pirate Pete	8.1	101
2	The Way We Ought to Be	7.8	99
3	Summa Cum Larry	8.1	105
4	Oh, That Morocco	7.3	96
5	Candidate Larry	8.0	99
6	Locks, Stocks, and Noodlehead	7.8	88
7	The Geezers in the Band	7.5	85
8	The Shape of Things	7.1	92
9	Write to Privacy	7.4	98
10	Still the Beavers	7.7	81
11	Much Ado About Mitch	6.8	91
12	Look Ma, No Talent	7.1	79
13	Larry's Dead, Long Live Larry	7.8	93
14	Stephanie Nightingale	7.7	88
15	The Stratford Horror Picture Show	8.3	116
16	I Do, Okay?	7.4	92
17	The Snowmen Cometh	7.7	90
18	Will the Real Dick Loudon Please Shut Up?	7.7	84
19	He Ain't Human, He's My Cousin	6.9	90
20	Dwight Schmidlapp Is Not a Quitter	7.5	100
21	Torn Between Three Brothers	7.6	100
22	Baby, I'm Your Handyman	7.6	93
23	Replaceable You	7.9	88
24	Pre-Nups	7.9	93

Season 5 (1986)

7.54 avg 24 episodes 7.6 → 7.5 30 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Co-Hostess Twinkie	7.6	118
2	Camp Stephanie	7.0	104
3	Dick the Kid	7.9	91
4	High Fidelity	7.3	80
5	Desperately Desiring Susan: Part 1	7.7	96
6	Desperately Desiring Susan: Part 2	7.6	94
7	My Two and Only	7.6	79
8	Thanksgiving for the Memories	7.6	92
9	Utley, Can You Spend a Dime?	7.2	85
10	Sweet and Sour Charity	7.2	88
11	Everybody Ought to Have a Maid	7.5	77
12	Saturday in New York with George	7.6	77
13	Love Letters in the Mud	7.5	88
14	The First of the Belles	7.5	93
15	It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To	7.5	93
16	Chimes They Are a Changin'	7.7	93
17	Unfriendly Persuasion	7.4	85
18	Jail, Jail, the Gang's All Here	7.8	92
19	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Loudon	8.0	82
20	Fun with Dick and Joanna	7.7	91
21	Night Moves	8.0	91
22	Harris Ankles PIV for Web Post	7.1	85
23	Good-Bye & Good Riddance, Mr. Chips	7.4	91
24	Much to Do Without Muffin	7.5	87

Season 6 (1987)

7.43 avg 24 episodes 7.6 → 7.5 30 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Here's to You, Mrs. Loudon	7.6	89
2	Prima Darryl	8.0	84
3	Inn This Corner	7.6	75
4	Me and My Gayle	7.3	76
5	Reading, Writing, and Rating Points	7.2	81
6	Vintage Stephanie	7.6	84
7	Take Me to Your Loudon	8.7	146
8	Till Depth Do Us Part: Part 1	7.2	83
9	Till Depth Do Us Part: Part 2	7.4	80
10	Telethon Man	8.1	80
11	Laugh at My Wife, Please	7.3	84
12	Support Your Local Shifflet	7.6	84
13	My Three Dads	7.7	90
14	A Friendship That Will Last a Lunchtime	6.8	84
15	Presence of Malice	7.2	80
16	Would You Buy a Used Car from This Handyman?	7.3	79
17	The Buck Stops Here	7.9	100
18	Attention WPIV Shoppers	7.3	83
19	The Big Uneasy	7.2	82
20	Draw Partner	6.6	85
21	A Midseason's Night Dream	7.1	98
22	Newsstruck	7.3	75
23	The Gleeless Club	6.9	78
24	Courtin' Disaster	7.5	76

Season 7 (1988)

7.42 avg 22 episodes 7.5 → 8.0 30 min avg

Rebound

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Town Without Pity	7.5	79
2	Apples, Apples, Apples	7.4	84
3	This Blood's for You	7.8	84
4	I Married Dick	7.9	96
5	Goonstruck	7.4	82
6	I Came, I Saw, I Sat	7.5	65
7	Twelve Annoyed Men and Women	7.5	88
8	Home for the Holidays	7.0	68
9	Shoe Business Is My Life	6.8	76
10	George and the Old Maid	7.3	69
11	Hi, Society	7.5	66
12	Cupcake on My Back	7.0	80
13	Another Saturday Night	7.7	80
14	The Nice Man Cometh	7.5	111
15	One and a Half Million Dollar Man	7.6	81
16	The Little Match Girl	7.1	82
17	Buy, Buy Blues	7.3	75
18	Message from Michael	6.9	69
19	Homes and Jo-Jo	7.1	79
20	Georgie and Bess	7.0	79
21	Murder at the Stratley	8.5	105
22	Malling in Love Again	8.0	79

Season 8 (1989)

6.85 avg 24 episodes 7.0 → 9.7 30 min avg

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Don't Worry Be Pregnant	7.0	82
2	Get Dick	6.6	84
3	Poetry and Pastries	7.1	81
4	Utley Exposed	7.8	85
5	Ramblin' Michael Harris	6.8	71
6	Meet Michael Vanderkellen	6.6	76
7	Good Lord Loudon	6.8	77
8	Cupcake in a Cage	6.8	65
9	Attack of the Killer Aunt	6.5	75
10	I Like You, Butt...	6.4	94
11	Jumpin' George	7.0	72
12	Lights! Camera! Contractions!	7.4	87
13	Beauty and the Pest	6.6	74
14	Good Neighbor Sam	7.0	82
15	Child in Charge	6.0	91
16	Seein' Double	5.9	120
17	Born to Be Mild	7.1	98
18	Daddy's Little Girl	5.9	86
19	Georgie and Grace	7.1	82
20	Handymania	7.1	83
21	Dick and Tim	6.8	86
22	Father Goose	6.2	78
23	My Husband, My Peasant	6.1	76
24	The Last Newhart	9.7	755

Newhart (1982)

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