The BEST episodes of The Bob Newhart Show
Every episode of The Bob Newhart Show ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Bob Newhart Show!
Bob Newhart is Dr. Robert Hartley, a Chicago psychologist living with his schoolteacher wife Emily. Complicating life for the serene, stammering doc was his neighbor, Howard, a flighty navigator; and Bob's coworkers, dentist Jerry and flippant receptionist Carol. The humor was gentle, sophisticated and, at times, wonderfully surreal.
#1 - The Gray Flannel Shrink
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1974
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.
#2 - Shrinks Across the Sea
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1975
Bob and Emily suffer international complications when they host a French psychologist in their home as part of a medical exchange program.
#3 - Fathers and Sons and Mothers
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/29/1975
Bob suffers family problems when his mother becomes a houseguest and an elderly patient involves him in a parent-child vendetta.
#4 - It Didn't Happen One Night
Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/1978
Bob's friends close ranks to "protect" Emily Hartley when a handsome old flame pays her a very warm visit.
#5 - Have You Met Miss Dietz?
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1973
Marilyn Dietz, a very attractive divorcee, creates a feud between Jerry and Howard when she starts dating both of them.
#6 - Don't Go to Bed Mad
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1972
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.
#7 - The Man with the Golden Wrist
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/20/1973
Bob refuses to wear the beautiful gold watch Emily gave him for his 40th birthday after he learns just how expensive it was.
#8 - I Want to Be Alone
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/2/1972
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.
#9 - Emily, I'm Home... Emily?
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1973
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.
#10 - Breaking Up is Hard to Do
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/11/1976
Bob undergoes a shock when his mother announces that she has separated from his father after 47 years of marriage.
#11 - Halls of Hartley
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1977
Bob succumbs to the pressures of living in a big city and desperately seeks employment of a small rural college.
#12 - A Day in the Life
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1977
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.
#13 - Freudian Ship
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/1978
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.
#14 - You Can Win 'Em All
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1973
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.
#15 - A Home is Not Necessarily a House
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1973
Bob and Emily try to decide if they should give up their apartment and buy a house.
#16 - Fly the Unfriendly Skies
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1972
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.
#17 - Tennis, Emily?
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1972
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.
#18 - The Two Loves of Dr. Hartley
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1973
When one of his patients falls in love with him, Bob has problems at the office and at home.
#19 - Mom, I L-L-Love You
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1972
Bob finds it extremely difficult to tell his mother that he loves her.
#20 - Bob and Emily and Howard and Carol and Jerry
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/9/1972
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.
#21 - I Owe It All to You... But Not That Much
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/16/1972
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.
#22 - Let's Get Away from It Almost
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1973
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.
#23 - Not With My Sister You Don't
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1973
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.
#24 - Bum Voyage
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/3/1973
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.
#25 - Goodnight Nancy
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1972
Bob's old girlfriend comes to Chicago with her husband and calls on Emily and Bob.