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Season 1

  • Pilots

    SPECIAL 0x8 Original Unaired Pilot

    • September 15, 1972
    • CBS
  • S01E01 Fly the Unfriendly Skies

    • September 16, 1972
    • CBS

    Bob invites Emily to join his fear of flying group on a trip to New York City. Much to Bob's surprise he finds that Emily also has a fear of flying and refuses to go. After a conversation with Howard she decides to go only to back out after boarding the plane.

  • S01E02 Tracy Grammar School, I'll Lick You Yet

    • September 23, 1972
    • CBS

    It's Vocation Day in Emily's class, and Bob feels left out when he's not invited. At the last minute, he's asked to fill in, but Emily's worst fears are confirmed when Bob fails to excite the kids' interest.

  • S01E03 Tennis, Emily?

    • September 30, 1972
    • CBS

    Bob experiences pangs of jealousy when Emily's handsome new tennis instructor comes to see him with an emotional problem, namely, his inability to turn down the women who are all uncontrollably attracted to him.

  • S01E04 Mom, I L-L-Love You

    • October 7, 1972
    • CBS

    Bob finds it extremely difficult to tell his mother that he loves her.

  • S01E05 Goodnight Nancy

    • October 21, 1972
    • CBS

    Bob's old girlfriend comes to Chicago with her husband and calls on Emily and Bob.

  • S01E06 Come Live with Me

    • October 28, 1972
    • CBS

    Carol tries to get Bob to approve her moving in with her new boyfriend Roger, who has just separated from his wife. Bob refuses, telling her she will have to make her own decision.

  • S01E07 Father Knows Worst

    • November 4, 1972
    • CBS

    Bob's divorced neighbor, Howard Borden, is convinced that his son, Howie, doesn't really like him. Later, Howard's ex-wife convinces him that Howie thinks he is the greatest guy in the world.

  • S01E08 Don't Go to Bed Mad

    • November 11, 1972
    • CBS

    Bob wants to watch football every Monday night. Emily feels this is unfair: their other activities allow the couple only two nights each week to be together, and she thinks they should do something that they both enjoy. This leads to an unresolved, all-night argument that ends only when the two participants become exhausted.

  • S01E09 P-I-L-O-T

    • November 18, 1972
    • CBS

    Bob and Emily have been trying for some time to have a child. When they attend a party where the conversation turns to the subject of children, they feel so left out that they decide to adopt a child. This is a retooled version of the original pilot. In order for this episode to fit into the series, the office scenes had to be re-shot. Originally Jerry Robinson(Peter Bonerz) was a swinging Psychologist and shared office space with Bob. The characters of receptionist Carol Kester(Marcia Wallace) and patient Elliot Carlin(Jack Riley) were absent. In fact, the part of Bob's patient was played by the Orthodontist who worked upstairs. Bob and Emily also lived in a condo and Bob was head of the building association.

  • S01E10 Anything Happen While I Was Gone?

    • November 25, 1972
    • CBS

    As soon as Bob returns to the office from his vacation in Mexico, Jerry announces that he is about to be married to a girl he met nine days ago. Cynthia, a beautiful but domineering oral hygienist, becomes too much for Jerry, and he realizes that he has made a mistake.

  • S01E11 I Want to Be Alone

    • December 2, 1972
    • CBS

    Bob decides that for his own mental well-being, he needs some peace and quiet. He moves into a hotel room by himself, leaving a confused Howard Borden thinking that Bob and Emily have split up.

  • S01E12 Bob and Emily and Howard and Carol and Jerry

    • December 9, 1972
    • CBS

    Howard "floats" into Bob's office on Cloud Nine after having a tooth pulled. He is so poetic that Carol tells Emily, "I want him." Emily agrees to help Carol get him, and the two have an up-and-down romance.

  • S01E13 I Owe It All to You... But Not That Much

    • December 16, 1972
    • CBS

    Jerry decides there is something wrong with him because he never becomes serious about any of the girls he dates. He asks Bob if he can become one of his patients. Bob agrees, but they have to abandon the plan when it begins to interfere with their friendship.

  • S01E14 His Busiest Season

    • December 23, 1972
    • CBS

    Christmas becomes a sad memory for Bob's group therapy session, and it's evident that "'tis not the season" for everyone to be jolly. Bob decides to invite the group over for Christmas Eve.

  • S01E15 Let's Get Away From it Almost

    • January 6, 1973
    • CBS

    Bob and Emily travel to a ski lodge that's nearly deserted except for the annoying couple with whom they share a bathroom. After sitting through a disastrous dinner, the Hartleys decide to leave only to find themselves caught in the spotlight of the abominable floor show they're trying to escape.

  • S01E16 The Crash of 29 Years Old

    • January 13, 1973
    • CBS

    Feeling unfulfilled as a woman, and having just passed her 29th birthday, Carol quits her job as Bob's receptionist. After having been gone for a while, Carol suddenly shows up at one of Bob's group-therapy sessions and creates a situation in which Bob finds himself more of a patient than a doctor.

  • S01E17 The Man with the Golden Wrist

    • January 20, 1973
    • CBS

    Bob refuses to wear the beautiful gold watch Emily gave him for his 40th birthday after he learns just how expensive it was.

  • S01E18 The Two Loves of Dr. Hartley

    • January 27, 1973
    • CBS

    When one of his patients falls in love with him, Bob has problems at the office and at home.

  • S01E19 Not With My Sister You Don't

    • February 3, 1973
    • CBS

    Howard Borden's 22-year old sister Debbie arrives to spend the week with him. Emily arranges a blind date for her with Jerry Robinson and Howard suddenly turns into an overprotective big brother.

  • S01E20 A Home is Not Necessarily a House

    • February 10, 1973
    • CBS

    Bob and Emily try to decide if they should give up their apartment and buy a house.

  • S01E21 Emily, I'm Home... Emily?

    • February 17, 1973
    • CBS

    Bob is upset when Emily takes a full-time job with the Board of Education. Emily explains that working full-time makes her feel wonderful, while quitting would make her miserable. Bob decides to leave well enough alone.

  • S01E22 You Can Win 'Em All

    • February 24, 1973
    • CBS

    When a star pitcher for the Chicago Cubs credits Bob with saving his career, the endorsement brings Bob a new patient, Moose Washburn, a second-string player whose career is beyond a mere psychologist's help.

  • S01E23 Bum Voyage

    • March 3, 1973
    • CBS

    Afraid that his practice, as well as his patients, will fall apart if he leaves, Bob keeps resisting Emily's plans for a two-month European cruise.

  • S01E24 Who's Been Sleeping on My Couch?

    • March 10, 1973
    • CBS

    Recovering from another broken romance, Jerry Robinson accepts Bob's invitation to spend a couple of days at his apartment. Bob soon comes to regret his kindness.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Last TV Show

    • September 15, 1973
    • CBS

    Bob's therapy group insists that he accept an invitation for the group to conduct one of its weekly sessions on television.

  • S02E02 Motel

    • September 22, 1973
    • CBS

    A trip to Peoria turns into one long embarrassment for Bob when Jerry introduces him to a pretty girl named Janine. Janine doesn't seem to care that Bob is a married man.

  • S02E03 Backlash

    • September 29, 1973
    • CBS

    One of Bob's more masculine patients enthusiastically slaps him on the back and, unfortunately for Bob, it throws his back out. Even more unfortunately, Bob and Emily were supposed to be going to Mexico for a vacation.

  • S02E04 Somebody Down Here Likes Me

    • October 6, 1973
    • CBS

    Rev. Dan Bradford seeks professional advice from Bob then makes a startling announcement in his Sunday sermon.

  • S02E05 Emily in for Carol

    • October 13, 1973
    • CBS

    With Carol on vacation, Emily is elected to fill in as the receptionist. Everyone loves the idea except Bob.

  • S02E06 Have You Met Miss Dietz?

    • October 20, 1973
    • CBS

    Marilyn Dietz, a very attractive divorcee, creates a feud between Jerry and Howard when she starts dating both of them.

  • S02E07 Old Man Rivers

    • October 27, 1973
    • CBS

    A rather embarrassing operation leads to romance between Carol and her doctor. Everyone questions the relationship due to the new couple's age disparity.

  • S02E08 Mister Emily Hartley

    • November 3, 1973
    • CBS

    Bob suffers an inferiority attack when a test reveals that Emily's IQ is higher than his.

  • S02E09 Mutiny on the Hartley

    • November 10, 1973
    • CBS

    Bob decides to meet the rising cost of living by raising his rates. But the members of his therapy group revolt when he picks the most inappropriate moment to tell them.

  • S02E10 I'm Okay, You're Okay, So What's Wrong?

    • November 17, 1973
    • CBS

    Bob turns out to be an uncooperative patient when Emily makes an appointment for them to see a marriage counselor.

  • S02E11 Fit, Fat, and Forty-One

    • November 24, 1973
    • CBS

    Determined to lose eight pounds from around his middle, Bob goes on a strict diet. With Jerry's help, he joins a weight-reducing class that seems to be populated mostly by women.

  • S02E12 Blues for Mr. Borden

    • December 1, 1973
    • CBS

    Howard Borden suffers a bad case of the blues when his young son tells him about his marvelous new "uncle," who seems to have taken up permanent residence with Howard's ex-wife.

  • S02E13 My Wife Belongs to Daddy

    • December 8, 1973
    • CBS

    Emily's parents pay a surprise visit that makes Bob terribly uncomfortable. Emily's father is gregarious, well-traveled, a war hero, an outdoors man... in short, everything that Bob isn't.

  • S02E14 T. S. Elliot

    • December 15, 1973
    • CBS

    Bob's patient Elliot Carlin parades all his phobias and insecurities as he prepares to ask Carol Kester for a date. He then finds it even harder to accept her answer which is "yes."

  • S02E15 I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas

    • December 22, 1973
    • CBS

    Christmas Eve is almost spoiled when Bob is trapped in the office because of a power failure.

  • S02E16 Oh, Brother

    • January 5, 1974
    • CBS

    Jerry Robinson's brother shows up in Chicago after finishing dental school. He takes over Jerry's life, his apartment, and his dental practice.

  • S02E17 The Modernization of Emily

    • January 12, 1974
    • CBS

    Emily decides to update her image with a kicky new wardrobe that she says is youthful and Bob says is childish.

  • S02E18 The Jobless Corps

    • January 19, 1974
    • CBS

    Depressed after losing his job with the airline, Howard accepts Bob's offer to join his "out of workshop," a special therapy group for the unemployed. (Bob extends the invitation at Emily's insistence when Howard's attempts to help her around the apartment begin driving her up the wall.)

  • S02E19 Clink Shrink

    • January 26, 1974
    • CBS

    Hoping to make a contribution to society, Bob offers his psychological counseling services free to a parolee out on an armed-robbery conviction. But Bob seems to be more influenced by his patient's manner than the patient is by Bob's therapy.

  • S02E20 Mind Your Own Business

    • February 2, 1974
    • CBS

    At Jerry's urging, Bob hires a business manager to handle his money. He ends up living on a meager allowance that affords him only such luxuries as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch.

  • S02E21 A Love Story

    • February 9, 1974
    • CBS

    Howard falls head over heels in love with Bob's sister Ellen. Under most circumstances, Bob would find this perfectly acceptable—except that Ellen is getting married to someone else.

  • S02E22 By the Way... You're Fired

    • February 16, 1974
    • CBS

    When Carol's new love interest interferes with her work, Jerry Robinson doesn't seemed too concerned. But when it disrupts his love life, he decides to fire her.

  • S02E23 Confessions of An Orthodontist

    • February 23, 1974
    • CBS

    While filling in for a fellow psychologist, Bob is surprised to find that his first patient is Jerry Robinson, who is reluctant to reveal his problem. A little prodding produces the startling admission that Jerry is in love with Emily.

  • S02E24 A Matter of Principal

    • March 2, 1974
    • CBS

    It's a matter of principal versus principle when Emily refuses to skip one of her students ahead two grades at the elementary school where she teaches.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Big Brother is Watching

    • September 14, 1974
    • CBS

    Bob is faced with the possibility that his younger sister, Ellen, may move in with Howard, her boyfriend.

  • S03E02 The Battle of the Groups

    • September 21, 1974
    • CBS

    Bob takes two of his therapy groups to a rustic retreat for a marathon session that never progresses further than everyone's complaints about the primitive conditions of their accommodations.

  • S03E03 The Great Rimpau Medical Arts Co-Op Experiment

    • September 28, 1974
    • CBS

    Jerry Robinson suggests that all the doctors in the building form a co-op to treat each other for free. This leads to chaos and hostility that find expression in Bob's special all-doctor therapy group.

  • S03E04 The Separation Story

    • October 5, 1974
    • CBS

    For the sake of their marriage as well as Emily's Master's Degree and Bob's heavy work schedule the Hartleys decide that it would be best if they took up separate residences.

  • S03E05 Sorry, Wrong Mother

    • October 12, 1974
    • CBS

    As Howard prepares to introduce Howie to Ellen, he tries to remold Ellen into an image the boy will like.

  • S03E06 The Gray Flannel Shrink

    • October 19, 1974
    • CBS

    Bob gives up most of his private practice to become the staff psychologist with a major insurance company. He soon learns that it's possible for a man in the corporate world to do his job too well.

  • S03E07 Dr. Ryan's Express

    • October 26, 1974
    • CBS

    Bob's office routine becomes a wreck when Jerry hires a temporary receptionist. She's a very nice but very vague woman who can't even get Bob's name straight.

  • S03E08 Brutally Yours, Bob Hartley

    • November 2, 1974
    • CBS

    Having preached honesty in relationships to his patients, Bob decides to follow his own advice. Immediately he offends two dinner guests and starts an argument with Emily.

  • S03E09 Ship of Shrinks

    • November 9, 1974
    • CBS

    Bob's first literary venture turns out to be less than triumphant. His embarrassment makes him reluctant to join a convention of psychologists on a flight to Hawaii, especially when he finds out that Howard is the navigator.

  • S03E10 Life is a Hamburger

    • November 16, 1974
    • CBS

    Carol's announcement that she's going to marry Don Fesler an unpublished poet with bad feet brings negative reactions from her friends.

  • S03E11 An American Family

    • November 23, 1974
    • CBS

    Emily's plans for a wonderful turkey dinner go downhill when Bob's mother and Emily's father begin insulting one another the night before Thanksgiving.

  • S03E12 We Love You... Good-Bye

    • November 30, 1974
    • CBS

    Bob forms an all-women consciousness-raising group. He gets kicked out after Emily joins and inadvertently points out some of the unliberated areas in their own marriage.

  • S03E13 Jerry Robinson Crusoe

    • December 7, 1974
    • CBS

    After renewing an acquaintance with the beautiful and free-spirited Courtney Simpson, Jerry decides to give up his dental practice: he wants to follow his dreams of romance and adventure by taking Miss Simpson to Tahiti.

  • S03E14 Serve for Daylight

    • December 14, 1974
    • CBS

    Bob thinks his chances of winning a doctor's tennis tournament are pretty good until he learns that his doubles partner will be Emily.

  • S03E15 Home is Where the Hurt Is

    • December 21, 1974
    • CBS

    Facing the depressing prospect of returning home to Iowa to spend the holidays with her domineering parents, Carol brings her troubles to Bob's apartment. There she spends Christmas Eve pouring out the disasters of her childhood.

  • S03E16 Tobin's Back in Town

    • January 4, 1975
    • CBS

    Ellen's ex-fiancee, John Tobin a tall, handsome egomaniac in suede and leather arrives in Chicago to win Ellen back. The situation plays havoc with Howard's basic insecurities.

  • S03E17 Think Smartly--Vote Hartley

    • January 11, 1975
    • CBS

    Before he has a chance to say no, Bob finds himself running for the chairman of the local school board against an incumbent who hasn't attended a board meeting for six months.

  • S03E18 The Way We Weren't

    • January 18, 1975
    • CBS

    Emily is more than a little curious about Bob's reluctance to talk about a girl he used to date. Then Howard inadvertently spills the beans.

  • S03E19 A Pound of Flesh

    • January 25, 1975
    • CBS

    Bob and Jerry have a falling-out when Jerry demands that Bob lend him money for a new motorcycle.

  • S03E20 My Business is Shrinking

    • February 1, 1975
    • CBS

    With his confidence fading as fast as his list of patients, Bob decides to follow Emily's advice and see a psychiatrist about his problem.

  • S03E21 The New Look

    • February 8, 1975
    • CBS

    Emily redecorates the apartment in antiques. Bob finds her choice of furniture uncomfortable, unappealing, and hazardous to his health.

  • S03E22 Bob Hits the Ceiling

    • February 15, 1975
    • CBS

    Bob breaks a long-standing rule against treating friends when he agrees to counsel Emily's chum, whose marriage to a muscular gym teacher seems to be breaking up.

  • S03E23 Emily Hits the Ceiling

    • February 22, 1975
    • CBS

    Emily agrees to help operate a children's summer camp and tries to persuade Bob to be one of the counselors.

  • S03E24 The Ceiling Hits Bob

    • March 8, 1975
    • CBS

    Bob becomes the "oldest permanent psychologist in Chicago" when the ceiling in his office collapses and he has to set up shop wherever he can find the space.

Season 4

  • S04E01 The Longest Good-Bye

    • September 13, 1975
    • CBS

    Bob's old school friend Murdock is in town for a day to sell a complex giveaway item to a Chicago cereal company. Bob invites him to stay overnight at his home. The brief encounter stretches out to a week when Murdock can't make his business connections. He gradually takes over Bob's car, clothing, and most of his home life.

  • S04E02 Here's Looking at You, Kid

    • September 20, 1975
    • CBS

    Howard insists on joining Bob and Emily's anniversary dinner at a fashionable Chicago restaurant in order to enlist their aid in popping the question to Ellen. But he chokes up in the clutch, and Bob is forced to do the proposing for him.

  • S04E03 Death of a Fruitman

    • September 27, 1975
    • CBS

    Bob's patients observe tradition by planning a surprise party to honor the fourth year of the group's therapy sessions. When an unseen member, a Mr. Gianelli, threatens to turn the party into a disaster, Bob kicks him out of the group. His decision meets with instant group approval until Mr. Gianelli dies under a ton of zucchini.

  • S04E04 Change is Gonna Do Me Good

    • October 4, 1975
    • CBS

    Emily accuses Bob of being stuck in a middle-aged rut and challenges him to switch family responsibilities.

  • S04E05 The Heavyweights

    • October 11, 1975
    • CBS

    Bob and Emily invite Carol to share her "heavy" experiences with the "overweight workshop."

  • S04E06 Carol's Wedding

    • October 18, 1975
    • CBS

    A blind-date-initiated, 12-hour romance culminates in Carol Kester's civil marriage to a handsome travel agent.

  • S04E07 Shrinks Across the Sea

    • October 25, 1975
    • CBS

    Bob and Emily suffer international complications when they host a French psychologist in their home as part of a medical exchange program.

  • S04E08 What's It All About, Albert?

    • November 1, 1975
    • CBS

    Bob is depressed by his seeming lack of success as a psychologist. He seeks help from his old college professor, who manages to heighten his despair by informing him that psychology is all nonsense.

  • S04E09 Who is Mr. X?

    • November 8, 1975
    • CBS

    Bob accepts a seemingly innocent invitation to appear as the guest on a TV discussion program. He winds up in the jaws of a dilemma when the show host turns out to have the disposition of a shark.

  • S04E10 Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

    • November 15, 1975
    • CBS

    Bob moves up in the world from the seventh to the tenth floor when he joins the firm of a swinging psychiatrist.

  • S04E11 Over the River and Through the Woods

    • November 22, 1975
    • CBS

    It's a stag Thanksgiving for Bob when Emily flies off to join a family reunion, leaving Bob to share the holiday with his male buddies.

  • S04E12 Fathers and Sons and Mothers

    • November 29, 1975
    • CBS

    Bob suffers family problems when his mother becomes a houseguest and an elderly patient involves him in a parent-child vendetta.

  • S04E13 The Article

    • December 6, 1975
    • CBS

    When she's given an assignment to see what makes a bunch of doctors tick, inquiring news reporter Ellen Hartley gives Bob and his medical cohorts the tell-it-like-it-is treatment.

  • S04E14 A Matter of Vice-Prinicipal

    • December 13, 1975
    • CBS

    Emily must contend with irate teachers, hamsters, and an escaped snake when she's unexpectedly upped to the position of school vice principal.

  • S04E15 Bob Has to Have His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas Eve in the Hospital

    • December 20, 1975
    • CBS

    Christmas Eve finds Bob in the hospital with tonsillitis and an impending operation. Meanwhile, his friends are all suffering from an attack of Christmas-itis.

  • S04E16 No Sale

    • January 3, 1976
    • CBS

    Bob becomes his patient's partner in a get-rich-quick real-estate venture.

  • S04E17 Carol at 6:01

    • January 10, 1976
    • CBS

    Bob contends with a patient's delusion that her bingo game is fixed, staggers through a series of wild poker parties, and watches in wonder as his secretary slowly smothers under an attack of love.

  • S04E18 Warden Gordon Borden

    • January 17, 1976
    • CBS

    Howard's game-warden brother comes to Chicago to witness the mating of two whooping cranes—and stays to make a play for Howard's girlfriend.

  • S04E19 My Boy Guillermo

    • January 24, 1976
    • CBS

    Jerry Robinson's depression turns to instant joy when a globe-trotting ex-flame suddenly re-enters his life and proposes.

  • S04E20 Duke of Dunk

    • January 31, 1976
    • CBS

    A professional basketball team hires Bob to give a psychological assist to its superstar.

  • S04E21 Guaranteed Not to Shrink

    • February 7, 1976
    • CBS

    Bob develops a unique psychological problem when his receptionist, Carol, decides to resume her college career and become a psychologist.

  • S04E22 Birth of a Salesman

    • February 14, 1976
    • CBS

    The Hartleys are bombarded with legal hassles when Bob is sued by a shy patient and Emily decides to fight a parking ticket.

  • S04E23 The Boy Next Door

    • February 21, 1976
    • CBS

    The Hartleys entertain Howard Borden's young son and hire a beauty queen as his babysitter.

  • S04E24 Peeper Two

    • February 28, 1976
    • CBS

    Cliff Murdock, Bob's old laugh-a-minute college buddy, affectionately known as The Peeper, pays a return visit.

Season 5

  • S05E01 Enter Mrs. Peeper

    • September 25, 1976
    • CBS

    Bob receives a telegram saying that his old college chum, "The Peeper," is coming to Chicago and bringing a surprise. The surprise turns out to be a brand-new bride.

  • S05E02 Caged Fury

    • October 2, 1976
    • CBS

    The Hartleys miss their friend's gala Fourth of July Bicentennial party celebration when they become trapped in a storage locker.

  • S05E03 Some of My Best Friends Are...

    • October 9, 1976
    • CBS

    Bob's therapy group has an unexpected visitor when a friendly homosexual joins in the sessions.

  • S05E04 Still Crazy After All These Years

    • October 16, 1976
    • CBS

    The Hartleys take a vacation. In their absence, Howard undergoes a crash psychological program that changes his entire personality.

  • S05E05 The Great Rent Strike

    • October 23, 1976
    • CBS

    The Hartley apartment becomes a hot and cold battleground when the good doctor declares psychological warfare on his landlord.

  • S05E06 Et Tu, Carol?

    • October 30, 1976
    • CBS

    Both Bob's receptionist and a Buddha figure with a clock in its navel give the psychologist a hard time.

  • S05E07 Send This Boy to Camp

    • November 6, 1976
    • CBS

    Bob and his friends host an orphan contingent for a wildly improbable camping-out experience.

  • S05E08 A Crime Most Foul

    • November 13, 1976
    • CBS

    Bob turns amateur detective when he believes that his expensive tape recorder has been stolen.

  • S05E09 The Slammer

    • November 20, 1976
    • CBS

    Bob and his friend "The Peeper" take a trip down Memory Lane and wind up in the slammer.

  • S05E10 Jerry's Retirement

    • November 27, 1976
    • CBS

    Bob defends the work ethic when Jerry comes into a pile of money and promptly retires from the dental profession.

  • S05E11 Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson

    • December 4, 1976
    • CBS

    Jerry, retired orthodontist and orphan, takes off on a world tour to search for his long-lost parents.

  • S05E12 Breaking Up is Hard to Do

    • December 11, 1976
    • CBS

    Bob undergoes a shock when his mother announces that she has separated from his father after 47 years of marriage.

  • S05E13 Making Up is the Thing to Do

    • December 25, 1976
    • CBS

    Bob takes on the role of Christmas peacemaker when he attempts to reconcile his parents.

  • S05E14 Love is the Blindest

    • January 8, 1977
    • CBS

    Bob watches in amazement as one of his patients supports a blossoming romance with a tissue of lies.

  • S05E15 The Ironwood Experience

    • January 15, 1977
    • CBS

    Bob's invitation to lecture at a prestigious sex seminar results in distress when the audience shows up nude.

  • S05E16 Of Mice and Men

    • January 22, 1977
    • CBS

    Bob runs into marital problems when he brings his therapy group home for a wild role-playing encounter.

  • S05E17 Halls of Hartley

    • January 29, 1977
    • CBS

    Bob succumbs to the pressures of living in a big city and desperately seeks employment of a small rural college.

  • S05E18 The Heartbreak Kidd

    • February 5, 1977
    • CBS

    Bob thinks that Veronica Kidd, a student trainee, has fallen in love with him.

  • S05E19 Death Be My Destiny

    • February 12, 1977
    • CBS

    Bob strikes out against a friend's fear of falling, but succumbs to the same phobia himself when he is subjected to a harrowing elevator experience.

  • S05E20 Taxation Without Celebration

    • February 19, 1977
    • CBS

    Bob's memory is taxed to the limit when he forgets that April 15 is the Federal income tax deadline—and also the date of the Hartleys' seventh wedding anniversary.

  • S05E21 Desperate Sessions

    • February 26, 1977
    • CBS

    Bob is held hostage in his office by a friendly bank robber.

  • S05E22 The Mentor

    • March 5, 1977
    • CBS

    A despondent friend accepts Bob's suggestion and turns the psychologist's reception area into a mini-Polynesian village.

  • S05E23 Shrinking Violence

    • March 12, 1977
    • CBS

    Bob offers sound psychological advice to his wife and his therapy group on how to handle anger. Then he proceeds to blow up himself.

  • S05E24 You're Having My Hartley

    • March 19, 1977
    • CBS

    Hot baby news is the order of the day when Carol, Bob's receptionist, announces that she's expecting a baby. Then, Emily drops her bombshell—and Bob nearly comes unglued at the prospect of becoming a father.

Season 6

  • S06E01 Bob's Change of Life

    • September 24, 1977
    • CBS

    Bob's well-ordered life turns topsy-turvy when he and Emily move to a new Chicago residence.

  • S06E02 Ex-Con Job

    • October 1, 1977
    • CBS

    Bob's attempt at treating convicts who are about to be released has him climbing the walls.

  • S06E03 A Jackie Story

    • October 8, 1977
    • CBS

    Jerry is terrified of losing his new dream girl.

  • S06E04 Who Was That Masked Man?

    • October 15, 1977
    • CBS

    Bob is puzzled when his henpecked patient, Mr. Petersen, asserts himself with far-reaching consequences.

  • S06E05 Carlin's New Suit

    • October 22, 1977
    • CBS

    Bob deals with the amusing problems of an improbable paternity suit and a phone paging service that never pages him.

  • S06E06 A Day in the Life

    • October 29, 1977
    • CBS

    Bob's impulsive decision to leave town for a week is received with disastrous emotions by his patients, who seemingly can't make it without him.

  • S06E07 My Son the Comedian

    • November 12, 1977
    • CBS

    It's no laughing matter for Howard when his 12 year old son Howie announces he's leaving home to become a comedian.

  • S06E08 You're Fired, Mr. Chips

    • November 19, 1977
    • CBS

    Bob interviews a variety of psychologists to take over his patients while he's out of town. It's soon apparent that they are very much in need of help themselves. When Bob's former teacher, Professor Dreebe, offers his services, it seems the perfect answer.

  • S06E09 Shallow Throat

    • November 26, 1977
    • CBS

    At first, Bob is thrilled when a nontalkative patient named Mr. Twillmer finally opens up after being told that anything he might say will be held in the strictest confidence. His joy is short-lived when Twillmer confesses to grand larceny.

  • S06E10 A Girl in Her Twenties

    • December 3, 1977
    • CBS

    Emily's protective instincts are aroused when 70-year-old Grace DuBois, an odd but friendly recluse, is threatened with being sent to a rest home for elderly people who can't cope with reality.

  • S06E11 Grand Delusion

    • December 17, 1977
    • CBS

    Bob and Emily celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary with a dream flight into the fantasy of being married to different partners.

  • S06E12 'Twas the Pie Before Christmas

    • December 24, 1977
    • CBS

    Bob finds himself with unhappy and hostile patients who refuse to attend his Christmas party when they are mistakenly informed of a rate increase at the height of the Yuletide season. One patient is moved to hire a pie-throwing service.

  • S06E13 Freudian Ship

    • January 7, 1978
    • CBS

    The Hartleys embark on a seagoing vacation to put work behind them. But Bob can't resist playing psychologist when he undertakes to counsel a married couple.

  • S06E14 Grizzly Emily

    • January 14, 1978
    • CBS

    Emily Hartley discovers a new low in male chauvinism when Bob's father arranges a fishing trip to his cabin and assigns her woman's work while the men brave the great out-of-doors.

  • S06E15 Son of an Ex-Con Job

    • January 21, 1978
    • CBS

    Bob counsels a quintet of jovial ex-convicts to help them find honest employment.

  • S06E16 Group on a Hot Tin Roof

    • January 28, 1978
    • CBS

    Bob advises a patient named Mr. Plager to realize his human potential by writing a play based on his own experiences. But when Plager writes, directs, and produces an actual World War I drama whose characters bear a startling resemblance to the rest of Bob's patients, the warfare really begins.

  • S06E17 Emily Carlin, Emily Carlin

    • February 4, 1978
    • CBS

    Bob's paranoid, perennial patient, Mr. Carlin, involves Emily in his scheme to impress his former schoolmates—especially a girl who never gave him the time of day.

  • S06E18 Easy for You to Say

    • February 11, 1978
    • CBS

    Paul Billingham—known to his radio fans as Ralph Alfalfa, the Happy Farmer—comes to Bob because of his stuttering problem. On radio, he practiced several unseen rhythmic devices to mask his problem, but a new television opportunity threatens to expose his problem with disastrous results.

  • S06E19 It Didn't Happen One Night

    • February 18, 1978
    • CBS

    Bob's friends close ranks to "protect" Emily Hartley when a handsome old flame pays her a very warm visit.

  • S06E20 Carol Ankles for Indie-Prod

    • March 4, 1978
    • CBS

    On the eve of being announced "Secretary of the Year," Carol informs Bob that she's leaving his employ.

  • S06E21 Crisis in Education

    • March 11, 1978
    • CBS

    At the school where Emily works, low reading scores prompt indignant outbursts and threats from angry parents. Principal Phil Bannister flees their wrath by going on an extended fishing trip—but not before he tells Emily to handle the crisis.

  • S06E22 Happy Trails to You

    • April 1, 1978
    • CBS

    Bob gives up his psychological practice in Chicago to become a professor at a small college in Oregon.

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x7 The Bob Newhart Show 19th Anniversary Special

    • November 23, 1991
    • CBS

    Essentially a continuing episode of the original "The Bob Newhart Show". The plot picks up the day after the "last" episode of "Newhart" which itself morphed back into "The Bob Newhart Show". Dr. Robert Hartley has yet another day at the office which he spends trying to explain his "dream" of the night before which of course was the "Newhart" show. Series regulars Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace and Jack Riley all return to reprise their roles.

  • SPECIAL 0x10 Group Therapy

    • October 10, 2014
    • CBS

    Bob Newhart sites down with Peter Boners, Jack Riley, Bill Daily and Michael Zinberg