The BEST episodes of The Bob Newhart Show season 3
Every episode of The Bob Newhart Show season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Bob Newhart Show season 3!
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 - Bob Hits the Ceiling
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/15/1975
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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - My Business is Shrinking
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/1/1975
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.
#4 - The Ceiling Hits Bob
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/8/1975
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.
#5 - The New Look
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/8/1975
Emily redecorates the apartment in antiques. Bob finds her choice of furniture uncomfortable, unappealing, and hazardous to his health.
#6 - Tobin's Back in Town
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/4/1975
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.
#7 - Big Brother is Watching
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1974
Bob is faced with the possibility that his younger sister, Ellen, may move in with Howard, her boyfriend.
#8 - Emily Hits the Ceiling
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/22/1975
Emily agrees to help operate a children's summer camp and tries to persuade Bob to be one of the counselors.
#9 - Serve for Daylight
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1974
Bob thinks his chances of winning a doctor's tennis tournament are pretty good until he learns that his doubles partner will be Emily.
#10 - Home is Where the Hurt Is
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/21/1974
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.
#11 - The Battle of the Groups
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1974
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.
#12 - We Love You... Good-Bye
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1974
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.
#13 - Jerry Robinson Crusoe
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1974
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.
#14 - The Separation Story
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1974
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.
#15 - An American Family
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1974
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.
#16 - Life is a Hamburger
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1974
Carol's announcement that she's going to marry Don Fesler an unpublished poet with bad feet brings negative reactions from her friends.
#17 - Brutally Yours, Bob Hartley
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1974
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.
#18 - Think Smartly--Vote Hartley
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/11/1975
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.
#19 - Ship of Shrinks
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1974
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.
#20 - A Pound of Flesh
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/25/1975
Bob and Jerry have a falling-out when Jerry demands that Bob lend him money for a new motorcycle.
#21 - The Way We Weren't
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/18/1975
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.
#22 - The Great Rimpau Medical Arts Co-Op Experiment
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1974
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.
#23 - Sorry, Wrong Mother
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1974
As Howard prepares to introduce Howie to Ellen, he tries to remold Ellen into an image the boy will like.
#24 - Dr. Ryan's Express
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1974
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.