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 (7,639 votes)
Seasons: 6
Streaming (US): Amazon Prime Video
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Jul 3, 2026 · 6 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1972)

7.53 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	326
2	Tracy Grammar School, I'll Lick You Yet	7.8	245
3	Tennis, Emily?	7.6	234
4	Mom, I L-L-Love You	7.6	211
5	Goodnight Nancy	7.7	212
6	Come Live with Me	7.3	197
7	Father Knows Worst	7.0	204
8	Don't Go to Bed Mad	7.4	189
9	P-I-L-O-T	6.9	194
10	Anything Happen While I Was Gone?	7.6	183
11	I Want to Be Alone	7.4	171
12	Bob and Emily and Howard and Carol and Jerry	7.9	183
13	I Owe It All to You... But Not That Much	7.4	172
14	His Busiest Season	7.8	192
15	Let's Get Away from It Almost	7.3	184
16	The Crash of 29 Years Old	7.6	166
17	The Man with the Golden Wrist	7.7	174
18	The Two Loves of Dr. Hartley	7.5	158
19	Not with My Sister You Don't	7.5	166
20	A Home Is Not Necessarily a House	7.4	164
21	Emily, I'm Home - Emily?	7.7	161
22	You Can't Win 'Em All	7.4	148
23	Bum Voyage	7.7	161
24	Who's Been Sleeping on My Couch?	7.5	142

Season 2 (1973)

7.68 avg 24 episodes 7.8 → 7.4 27 min avg

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Last TV Show	7.8	158
2	Motel	7.7	161
3	Backlash	7.8	150
4	Somebody Down Here Likes Me	7.9	154
5	Emily in for Carol	7.8	148
6	Have You Met Miss Dietz?	7.3	145
7	Old Man Rivers	7.4	136
8	Mister Emily Hartley	8.1	155
9	Mutiny on the Hartley	7.9	133
10	I'm Okay, You're Okay, So What's Wrong?	7.6	139
11	Fit, Fat and Forty One	7.9	137
12	Blues for Mr. Borden	7.2	132
13	My Wife Belongs to Daddy	7.7	133
14	T.S. Elliot	8.1	130
15	I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas	7.9	153
16	Oh, Brother	7.2	135
17	The Modernization of Emily	7.8	142
18	The Jobless Corps	7.8	133
19	Clink Shrink	7.8	141
20	Mind Your Own Business	7.6	125
21	A Love Story	7.4	128
22	By the Way... You're Fired	7.6	124
23	Confessions of an Orthodontist	7.7	139
24	A Matter of Principal	7.4	131

Season 3 (1974)

7.57 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	144
2	The Battle of the Groups	7.6	139
3	The Great Rimpau Medical Arts Co-Op Experiment	7.6	134
4	The Separation Story	7.7	124
5	Sorry, Wrong Mother	7.2	134
6	The Gray Flannel Shrink	7.5	133
7	Dr. Ryan's Express	7.8	130
8	Brutally Yours, Bob Hartley	7.8	123
9	Ship of Shrinks	7.7	121
10	Life Is a Hamburger	7.4	117
11	An American Family	8.1	152
12	We Love You... Good-Bye	7.4	128
13	Jerry Robinson Crusoe	7.4	119
14	Serve for Daylight	7.5	124
15	Home Is Where the Hurt Is	7.0	139
16	Tobin's Back in Town	7.7	122
17	Think Smartly--Vote Hartley	7.3	118
18	The Way We Weren't	7.5	121
19	A Pound of Flesh	7.5	116
20	My Business Is Shrinking	8.0	119
21	The New Look	7.8	119
22	Bob Hits the Ceiling	7.7	120
23	Emily Hits the Ceiling	7.2	118
24	The Ceiling Hits Bob	8.1	128

Season 4 (1975)

7.27 avg 24 episodes 7.7 → 7.4 30 min avg

Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Longest Good Bye	7.7	119
2	Here's Looking at You, Kid	6.8	116
3	Death of a Fruitman	7.8	130
4	Change Is Gonna Do Me Good	7.3	106
5	The Heavyweights	7.2	117
6	Carol's Wedding	7.2	114
7	Shrinks Across the Sea	7.1	113
8	What's It All About, Albert?	7.4	112
9	Who Is Mr. X?	7.9	141
10	Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time	6.5	121
11	Over the River and Through the Woods	8.8	260
12	Fathers and Sons and Mothers	7.3	115
13	The Article	7.2	116
14	A Matter of Vice-Principal	7.0	105
15	Bob Has to Have His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas Eve in the Hospital	7.9	136
16	No Sale	7.0	102
17	Carol at 6:01	6.8	107
18	Warden Gordon Borden	7.2	109
19	My Boy Guillermo	6.7	104
20	Duke of Dunk	6.8	107
21	Guaranteed Not to Shrink	6.9	104
22	Birth of a Salesman	7.3	104
23	The Boy Next Door	7.2	105
24	Peeper Two	7.4	103

Season 5 (1976)

7.37 avg 24 episodes 7.4 → 7.6 30 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 5 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Enter Mrs. Peeper	7.4	102
2	Caged Fury	8.1	120
3	Some of My Best Friends Are...	7.2	117
4	Still Crazy After All These Years	7.6	104
5	The Great Rent Strike	7.7	95
6	Et Tu, Carol?	7.0	96
7	Send This Boy to Camp	7.0	93
8	A Crime Most Foul	7.6	105
9	The Slammer	7.5	101
10	Jerry's Retirement	6.7	106
11	Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson	7.0	95
12	Breaking Up Is Hard to Do	7.1	90
13	Making Up Is the Thing to Do	7.5	102
14	Love Is the Blindest	7.3	95
15	The Ironwood Experience	7.4	93
16	Of Mice and Men	7.3	94
17	Halls of Hartley	7.0	94
18	The Heartbreak Kidd	7.5	103
19	Death Be My Destiny	8.2	126
20	Taxation Without Celebration	7.3	99
21	Desperate Sessions	7.9	113
22	The Mentor	6.9	97
23	Shrinking Violence	7.1	101
24	You're Having My Hartley	7.6	112

Season 6 (1977)

7.31 avg 22 episodes 7.0 → 8.3 30 min avg

Season 6 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Bob's Change of Life	7.0	105
2	Ex-Con Job	7.0	110
3	A Jackie Story	7.7	94
4	Who Was That Masked Man?	7.8	102
5	Carlin's New Suit	7.5	104
6	A Day in the Life	8.1	110
7	My Son the Comedian	6.5	100
8	You're Fired, Mr. Chips	7.3	98
9	Shallow Throat	7.5	95
10	A Girl in Her Twenties	7.5	111
11	Grand Delusion	7.2	103
12	'Twas the Pie Before Christmas	8.2	110
13	Freudian Ship	7.8	112
14	Grizzly Emily	7.0	97
15	Son of an Ex-Con Job	6.8	100
16	Group on a Hot Tin Roof	7.7	107
17	Emily Carlin, Emily Carlin	7.3	104
18	Easy for You to Say	6.6	104
19	It Didn't Happen One Night	6.5	113
20	Carol Ankles for Indie-Prod	7.2	97
21	Crisis in Education	6.3	100
22	Happy Trails to You	8.3	130

The Bob Newhart Show (1972)

Cast

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