The BEST episodes of The Bob Newhart Show season 6
Every episode of The Bob Newhart Show season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Bob Newhart Show season 6!
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 - 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.
#2 - Bob's Change of Life
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1977
Bob's well-ordered life turns topsy-turvy when he and Emily move to a new Chicago residence.
#3 - 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.
#4 - Easy for You to Say
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/11/1978
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.
#5 - Carlin's New Suit
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1977
Bob deals with the amusing problems of an improbable paternity suit and a phone paging service that never pages him.
#6 - 'Twas the Pie Before Christmas
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/24/1977
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.
#7 - Who Was That Masked Man?
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1977
Bob is puzzled when his henpecked patient, Mr. Petersen, asserts himself with far-reaching consequences.
#8 - Ex-Con Job
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1977
Bob's attempt at treating convicts who are about to be released has him climbing the walls.
#9 - 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.
#10 - Happy Trails to You
Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/1/1978
Bob gives up his psychological practice in Chicago to become a professor at a small college in Oregon.
#11 - A Jackie Story
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1977
Jerry is terrified of losing his new dream girl.
#12 - Emily Carlin, Emily Carlin
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/4/1978
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.
#13 - Shallow Throat
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1977
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.
#14 - Crisis in Education
Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/11/1978
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.
#15 - Son of an Ex-Con Job
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/1978
Bob counsels a quintet of jovial ex-convicts to help them find honest employment.
#16 - Grand Delusion
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1977
Bob and Emily celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary with a dream flight into the fantasy of being married to different partners.
#17 - My Son the Comedian
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1977
It's no laughing matter for Howard when his 12 year old son Howie announces he's leaving home to become a comedian.
#18 - A Girl in Her Twenties
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/1977
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.
#19 - Grizzly Emily
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1978
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.
#20 - Carol Ankles for Indie-Prod
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/4/1978
On the eve of being announced "Secretary of the Year," Carol informs Bob that she's leaving his employ.
#21 - Group on a Hot Tin Roof
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/28/1978
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.
#22 - You're Fired, Mr. Chips
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1977
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.