The Bob Newhart Show (1972)

Name: The Bob Newhart Show
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Marcia Wallace, Peter Bonerz

Comedy

The Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978. Comedian Bob Newhart portrays a psychologist having to deal with his patients and fellow office workers. The show was filmed before a live audience.

IMDb rating: 8.1 (7,753 votes)
Episode average: 7.5 -0.6 vs IMDb
Seasons: 6
Streaming (US): Amazon Prime Video
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 6 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1972)

7.56 avg 24 episodes 8.1 → 7.5 27 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Fly the Unfriendly Skies	8.1	340
2	Tracy Grammar School, I'll Lick You Yet	7.8	256
3	Tennis, Emily?	7.6	247
4	Mom, I L-L-Love You	7.6	224
5	Goodnight Nancy	7.7	225
6	Come Live with Me	7.4	209
7	Father Knows Worst	7.0	217
8	Don't Go to Bed Mad	7.5	202
9	P-I-L-O-T	6.9	204
10	Anything Happen While I Was Gone?	7.6	196
11	I Want to Be Alone	7.4	183
12	Bob and Emily and Howard and Carol and Jerry	7.9	195
13	I Owe It All to You... But Not That Much	7.4	184
14	His Busiest Season	7.9	204
15	Let's Get Away from It Almost	7.4	196
16	The Crash of 29 Years Old	7.6	176
17	The Man with the Golden Wrist	7.7	185
18	The Two Loves of Dr. Hartley	7.5	168
19	Not with My Sister You Don't	7.6	176
20	A Home Is Not Necessarily a House	7.4	173
21	Emily, I'm Home - Emily?	7.8	169
22	You Can't Win 'Em All	7.4	157
23	Bum Voyage	7.7	171
24	Who's Been Sleeping on My Couch?	7.5	149

Season 2 (1973)

7.71 avg 24 episodes 7.8 → 7.4 27 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Last TV Show	7.8	168
2	Motel	7.8	172
3	Backlash	7.9	157
4	Somebody Down Here Likes Me	7.9	164
5	Emily in for Carol	7.8	156
6	Have You Met Miss Dietz?	7.4	153
7	Old Man Rivers	7.5	144
8	Mister Emily Hartley	8.2	164
9	Mutiny on the Hartley	7.9	140
10	I'm Okay, You're Okay, So What's Wrong?	7.7	144
11	Fit, Fat and Forty One	7.9	142
12	Blues for Mr. Borden	7.2	137
13	My Wife Belongs to Daddy	7.7	138
14	T.S. Elliot	8.1	136
15	I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas	7.9	160
16	Oh, Brother	7.2	144
17	The Modernization of Emily	7.9	149
18	The Jobless Corps	7.8	140
19	Clink Shrink	7.9	148
20	Mind Your Own Business	7.5	131
21	A Love Story	7.3	135
22	By the Way... You're Fired	7.6	131
23	Confessions of an Orthodontist	7.7	145
24	A Matter of Principal	7.4	137

Season 3 (1974)

7.56 avg 24 episodes 7.2 → 8.1 27 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Big Brother Is Watching	7.2	149
2	The Battle of the Groups	7.6	146
3	The Great Rimpau Medical Arts Co-Op Experiment	7.6	138
4	The Separation Story	7.7	128
5	Sorry, Wrong Mother	7.2	139
6	The Gray Flannel Shrink	7.5	138
7	Dr. Ryan's Express	7.9	133
8	Brutally Yours, Bob Hartley	7.8	126
9	Ship of Shrinks	7.7	125
10	Life Is a Hamburger	7.3	121
11	An American Family	8.1	156
12	We Love You... Good-Bye	7.4	132
13	Jerry Robinson Crusoe	7.4	123
14	Serve for Daylight	7.4	130
15	Home Is Where the Hurt Is	7.0	142
16	Tobin's Back in Town	7.6	126
17	Think Smartly--Vote Hartley	7.3	121
18	The Way We Weren't	7.6	124
19	A Pound of Flesh	7.5	121
20	My Business Is Shrinking	8.0	124
21	The New Look	7.8	123
22	Bob Hits the Ceiling	7.7	125
23	Emily Hits the Ceiling	7.1	123
24	The Ceiling Hits Bob	8.1	132

Season 4 (1975)

7.28 avg 24 episodes 7.7 → 7.3 27 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Longest Good Bye	7.7	123
2	Here's Looking at You, Kid	6.9	119
3	Death of a Fruitman	7.8	134
4	Change Is Gonna Do Me Good	7.4	109
5	The Heavyweights	7.2	121
6	Carol's Wedding	7.3	117
7	Shrinks Across the Sea	7.1	117
8	What's It All About, Albert?	7.4	116
9	Who Is Mr. X?	7.9	146
10	Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time	6.5	125
11	Over the River and Through the Woods	8.8	269
12	Fathers and Sons and Mothers	7.3	119
13	The Article	7.2	122
14	A Matter of Vice-Principal	7.1	109
15	Bob Has to Have His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas Eve in the Hospital	8.0	140
16	No Sale	7.0	106
17	Carol at 6:01	6.8	111
18	Warden Gordon Borden	7.2	113
19	My Boy Guillermo	6.7	108
20	Duke of Dunk	6.8	111
21	Guaranteed Not to Shrink	6.9	108
22	Birth of a Salesman	7.3	108
23	The Boy Next Door	7.2	109
24	Peeper Two	7.3	107

Season 5 (1976)

7.35 avg 24 episodes 7.2 → 7.5 26 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Enter Mrs. Peeper	7.2	108
2	Caged Fury	7.9	124
3	Some of My Best Friends Are...	7.2	122
4	Still Crazy After All These Years	7.7	108
5	The Great Rent Strike	7.7	100
6	Et Tu, Carol?	7.0	103
7	Send This Boy to Camp	7.0	96
8	A Crime Most Foul	7.5	110
9	The Slammer	7.5	104
10	Jerry's Retirement	6.6	113
11	Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson	7.0	99
12	Breaking Up Is Hard to Do	7.2	92
13	Making Up Is the Thing to Do	7.5	105
14	Love Is the Blindest	7.2	99
15	The Ironwood Experience	7.5	96
16	Of Mice and Men	7.4	97
17	Halls of Hartley	7.0	99
18	The Heartbreak Kidd	7.5	107
19	Death Be My Destiny	8.2	130
20	Taxation Without Celebration	7.2	103
21	Desperate Sessions	7.9	116
22	The Mentor	6.9	102
23	Shrinking Violence	7.0	105
24	You're Having My Hartley	7.5	116

Season 6 (1977)

7.32 avg 22 episodes 7.0 → 8.3 25 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Bob's Change of Life	7.0	109
2	Ex-Con Job	7.1	114
3	A Jackie Story	7.7	98
4	Who Was That Masked Man?	7.8	107
5	Carlin's New Suit	7.5	107
6	A Day in the Life	8.1	113
7	My Son the Comedian	6.5	104
8	You're Fired, Mr. Chips	7.3	102
9	Shallow Throat	7.6	98
10	A Girl in Her Twenties	7.5	114
11	Grand Delusion	7.2	107
12	'Twas the Pie Before Christmas	8.2	112
13	Freudian Ship	7.8	116
14	Grizzly Emily	7.0	102
15	Son of an Ex-Con Job	6.8	104
16	Group on a Hot Tin Roof	7.7	112
17	Emily Carlin, Emily Carlin	7.3	107
18	Easy for You to Say	6.6	108
19	It Didn't Happen One Night	6.5	117
20	Carol Ankles for Indie-Prod	7.2	100
21	Crisis in Education	6.3	103
22	Happy Trails to You	8.3	133