The BEST episodes written by Gordon Farr
#1 - The Stimulation of Stephanie/The Next Step/ Life Begins at 40
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 14
A sex researcher doesn't realize his assistant is in love with him. A woman helps her football star husband move on after he is cut by his team. A woman tries to find a husband just before her 40th birthday.
#2 - Caged Fury
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 5 - Episode 2
The Hartleys miss their friend's gala Fourth of July Bicentennial party celebration when they become trapped in a storage locker.
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#3 - Not So Fast, Gopher/Haven't We Met Before?/Seoul Mates
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 22
Gopher invites his widowed mother onto the ship in the hopes of cheering her up, but is hurt by her seemingly cheerful attitude, which he interprets as an insult to his father. A group of buddies takes a cruise. One of the men meets a woman who is a regular customer at the restaurant where he works. He lies about his identity because he thinks she would be put off by the fact that he is a waiter. A comic's romance with the reporter who is writing a feature about him appears doomed after she takes offense to his act.
#5 - The Grass Story
Maude - Season 1 - Episode 12
As a 19-year-old faces a lengthy prison sentence for marijuana possession, Maude and a group of middle-aged housewives plan a protest at a police station. The plan is to get arrested for possession and Maude is supposed to provide the pot. However, trying to get her hands on some, proves to be problematic.
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The Bob Newhart Show - Season 5 - Episode 24
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.
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The Bob Newhart Show - Season 5 - Episode 13
Bob takes on the role of Christmas peacemaker when he attempts to reconcile his parents.
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#8 - Carol's Wedding
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 4 - Episode 6
A blind-date-initiated, 12-hour romance culminates in Carol Kester's civil marriage to a handsome travel agent.
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#9 - The New Look
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 3 - Episode 21
Emily redecorates the apartment in antiques. Bob finds her choice of furniture uncomfortable, unappealing, and hazardous to his health.
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#10 - Enter Mrs. Peeper
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 5 - Episode 1
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.
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#11 - Not Now, I'm Dying/Eleanor's Return/Too Young to Love
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 13
A man tries to avoid a wedding by faking a terminal illness. Capt. Stubing hopes for another chance at love with his recently divorced ex-flame. Gopher must keep an eye on two teenagers posing as newlyweds.
#12 - Change is Gonna Do Me Good
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 4 - Episode 4
Emily accuses Bob of being stuck in a middle-aged rut and challenges him to switch family responsibilities.
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#13 - Here's Looking at You, Kid
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 4 - Episode 2
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.
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#14 - Warden Gordon Borden
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 4 - Episode 18
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.
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The Bob Newhart Show - Season 5 - Episode 11
Jerry, retired orthodontist and orphan, takes off on a world tour to search for his long-lost parents.
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#16 - Ancient Lottery
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues - Season 2 - Episode 4
The Ancient wins the lottery with a ticket given to him as a goodwill gesture by a greedy developer and upcoming politician. Now Tan wants it.
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The Bob Newhart Show - Season 5 - Episode 9
Bob and his friend "The Peeper" take a trip down Memory Lane and wind up in the slammer.
#18 - A Matter of Vice-Prinicipal
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 4 - Episode 14
Emily must contend with irate teachers, hamsters, and an escaped snake when she's unexpectedly upped to the position of school vice principal.
#19 - Carol at 6:01
The Bob Newhart Show - Season 4 - Episode 17
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.
#20 - Mother Jefferson's Boyfriend
The Jeffersons - Season 1 - Episode 8
George learns of Mother Jefferson's intentions of marriage and is totally against the idea, thinking her fiancee is after his money.