The BEST episodes of The Bob Newhart Show season 5
Every episode of The Bob Newhart Show season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Bob Newhart Show season 5!
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 - Caged Fury
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1976
The Hartleys miss their friend's gala Fourth of July Bicentennial party celebration when they become trapped in a storage locker.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - Some of My Best Friends Are...
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1976
Bob's therapy group has an unexpected visitor when a friendly homosexual joins in the sessions.
#5 - You're Having My Hartley
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/19/1977
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.
#6 - Making Up is the Thing to Do
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/25/1976
Bob takes on the role of Christmas peacemaker when he attempts to reconcile his parents.
#8 - The Great Rent Strike
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1976
The Hartley apartment becomes a hot and cold battleground when the good doctor declares psychological warfare on his landlord.
#9 - Still Crazy After All These Years
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1976
The Hartleys take a vacation. In their absence, Howard undergoes a crash psychological program that changes his entire personality.
#10 - Enter Mrs. Peeper
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1976
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.
#11 - Love is the Blindest
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/8/1977
Bob watches in amazement as one of his patients supports a blossoming romance with a tissue of lies.
#12 - Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/4/1976
Jerry, retired orthodontist and orphan, takes off on a world tour to search for his long-lost parents.
#13 - Send This Boy to Camp
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1976
Bob and his friends host an orphan contingent for a wildly improbable camping-out experience.
#14 - The Heartbreak Kidd
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1977
Bob thinks that Veronica Kidd, a student trainee, has fallen in love with him.
#15 - Jerry's Retirement
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1976
Bob defends the work ethic when Jerry comes into a pile of money and promptly retires from the dental profession.
#16 - The Ironwood Experience
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1977
Bob's invitation to lecture at a prestigious sex seminar results in distress when the audience shows up nude.
#17 - Shrinking Violence
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/12/1977
Bob offers sound psychological advice to his wife and his therapy group on how to handle anger. Then he proceeds to blow up himself.
#18 - Et Tu, Carol?
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1976
Both Bob's receptionist and a Buddha figure with a clock in its navel give the psychologist a hard time.
#19 - Of Mice and Men
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/1977
Bob runs into marital problems when he brings his therapy group home for a wild role-playing encounter.
#20 - Taxation Without Celebration
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/19/1977
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.
#21 - Desperate Sessions
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/26/1977
Bob is held hostage in his office by a friendly bank robber.
#22 - The Slammer
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1976
Bob and his friend "The Peeper" take a trip down Memory Lane and wind up in the slammer.
#23 - Death Be My Destiny
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1977
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.
#24 - The Mentor
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/5/1977
A despondent friend accepts Bob's suggestion and turns the psychologist's reception area into a mini-Polynesian village.