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 (7,684 votes)
Seasons: 6
Streaming (US): Amazon Prime Video
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1972)

7.54 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	335
2	Tracy Grammar School, I'll Lick You Yet	7.8	251
3	Tennis, Emily?	7.6	242
4	Mom, I L-L-Love You	7.6	219
5	Goodnight Nancy	7.7	219
6	Come Live with Me	7.3	204
7	Father Knows Worst	7.0	211
8	Don't Go to Bed Mad	7.4	194
9	P-I-L-O-T	6.9	197
10	Anything Happen While I Was Gone?	7.6	189
11	I Want to Be Alone	7.4	176
12	Bob and Emily and Howard and Carol and Jerry	7.9	188
13	I Owe It All to You... But Not That Much	7.4	176
14	His Busiest Season	7.8	196
15	Let's Get Away from It Almost	7.4	188
16	The Crash of 29 Years Old	7.6	170
17	The Man with the Golden Wrist	7.7	179
18	The Two Loves of Dr. Hartley	7.5	163
19	Not with My Sister You Don't	7.6	170
20	A Home Is Not Necessarily a House	7.4	168
21	Emily, I'm Home - Emily?	7.7	165
22	You Can't Win 'Em All	7.4	153
23	Bum Voyage	7.7	166
24	Who's Been Sleeping on My Couch?	7.5	146

Season 2 (1973)

7.70 avg 24 episodes 7.8 → 7.4 27 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Last TV Show	7.8	161
2	Motel	7.8	165
3	Backlash	7.9	152
4	Somebody Down Here Likes Me	7.9	158
5	Emily in for Carol	7.8	151
6	Have You Met Miss Dietz?	7.4	148
7	Old Man Rivers	7.4	139
8	Mister Emily Hartley	8.2	158
9	Mutiny on the Hartley	7.9	135
10	I'm Okay, You're Okay, So What's Wrong?	7.6	141
11	Fit, Fat and Forty One	7.9	139
12	Blues for Mr. Borden	7.2	134
13	My Wife Belongs to Daddy	7.7	135
14	T.S. Elliot	8.1	132
15	I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas	7.9	156
16	Oh, Brother	7.2	137
17	The Modernization of Emily	7.8	145
18	The Jobless Corps	7.8	135
19	Clink Shrink	7.9	143
20	Mind Your Own Business	7.6	127
21	A Love Story	7.2	131
22	By the Way... You're Fired	7.6	127
23	Confessions of an Orthodontist	7.7	142
24	A Matter of Principal	7.4	134

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	147
2	The Battle of the Groups	7.6	142
3	The Great Rimpau Medical Arts Co-Op Experiment	7.6	136
4	The Separation Story	7.7	127
5	Sorry, Wrong Mother	7.2	137
6	The Gray Flannel Shrink	7.5	137
7	Dr. Ryan's Express	7.9	132
8	Brutally Yours, Bob Hartley	7.8	126
9	Ship of Shrinks	7.7	124
10	Life Is a Hamburger	7.3	121
11	An American Family	8.1	155
12	We Love You... Good-Bye	7.4	131
13	Jerry Robinson Crusoe	7.4	123
14	Serve for Daylight	7.4	129
15	Home Is Where the Hurt Is	7.0	141
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	124
23	Emily Hits the Ceiling	7.1	122
24	The Ceiling Hits Bob	8.1	131

Season 4 (1975)

7.28 avg 24 episodes 7.7 → 7.3 30 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Longest Good Bye	7.7	122
2	Here's Looking at You, Kid	6.9	119
3	Death of a Fruitman	7.8	133
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	116
8	What's It All About, Albert?	7.4	115
9	Who Is Mr. X?	7.9	144
10	Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time	6.5	124
11	Over the River and Through the Woods	8.8	266
12	Fathers and Sons and Mothers	7.3	118
13	The Article	7.2	121
14	A Matter of Vice-Principal	7.0	108
15	Bob Has to Have His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas Eve in the Hospital	8.0	139
16	No Sale	7.0	105
17	Carol at 6:01	6.8	110
18	Warden Gordon Borden	7.2	112
19	My Boy Guillermo	6.7	107
20	Duke of Dunk	6.8	110
21	Guaranteed Not to Shrink	6.9	107
22	Birth of a Salesman	7.3	107
23	The Boy Next Door	7.2	108
24	Peeper Two	7.3	106

Season 5 (1976)

7.39 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	105
2	Caged Fury	7.9	123
3	Some of My Best Friends Are...	7.2	120
4	Still Crazy After All These Years	7.7	107
5	The Great Rent Strike	7.7	98
6	Et Tu, Carol?	7.1	100
7	Send This Boy to Camp	7.0	96
8	A Crime Most Foul	7.6	108
9	The Slammer	7.5	104
10	Jerry's Retirement	6.7	109
11	Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson	7.0	98
12	Breaking Up Is Hard to Do	7.2	92
13	Making Up Is the Thing to Do	7.6	104
14	Love Is the Blindest	7.3	98
15	The Ironwood Experience	7.5	96
16	Of Mice and Men	7.4	97
17	Halls of Hartley	7.0	98
18	The Heartbreak Kidd	7.5	105
19	Death Be My Destiny	8.2	128
20	Taxation Without Celebration	7.3	101
21	Desperate Sessions	7.9	115
22	The Mentor	7.0	100
23	Shrinking Violence	7.1	103
24	You're Having My Hartley	7.6	114

Season 6 (1977)

7.30 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	107
2	Ex-Con Job	7.0	113
3	A Jackie Story	7.7	96
4	Who Was That Masked Man?	7.7	106
5	Carlin's New Suit	7.5	106
6	A Day in the Life	8.1	112
7	My Son the Comedian	6.5	102
8	You're Fired, Mr. Chips	7.3	100
9	Shallow Throat	7.5	97
10	A Girl in Her Twenties	7.5	113
11	Grand Delusion	7.2	105
12	'Twas the Pie Before Christmas	8.2	112
13	Freudian Ship	7.8	114
14	Grizzly Emily	7.0	99
15	Son of an Ex-Con Job	6.8	103
16	Group on a Hot Tin Roof	7.7	111
17	Emily Carlin, Emily Carlin	7.3	107
18	Easy for You to Say	6.5	107
19	It Didn't Happen One Night	6.5	116
20	Carol Ankles for Indie-Prod	7.2	99
21	Crisis in Education	6.3	102
22	Happy Trails to You	8.3	132