Marcia Wallace as Carol Kester

Episodes 142

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Gag Reel

0%
5m
0x2

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Fly the Unfriendly Skies

75%
September 16, 1972
1x1

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.

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1x2

It's Vocation Day in Emily's class, and Bob feels left out when he's not invited. At the last minute, he's asked to fill in, but Emily's worst fears are confirmed when Bob fails to excite the kids' interest.

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Tennis, Emily?

82%
September 30, 1972
1x3

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.

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Mom, I L-L-Love You

70%
October 7, 1972
1x4

Bob finds it extremely difficult to tell his mother that he loves her.

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Goodnight Nancy

70%
October 21, 1972
1x5

Bob's old girlfriend comes to Chicago with her husband and calls on Emily and Bob.

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Come Live with Me

65%
October 28, 1972
1x6

Carol tries to get Bob to approve her moving in with her new boyfriend Roger, who has just separated from his wife. Bob refuses, telling her she will have to make her own decision.

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Father Knows Worst

60%
November 4, 1972
1x7

Bob's divorced neighbor, Howard Borden, is convinced that his son, Howie, doesn't really like him. Later, Howard's ex-wife convinces him that Howie thinks he is the greatest guy in the world.

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Don't Go to Bed Mad

75%
November 11, 1972
1x8

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.

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P-I-L-O-T

55%
November 18, 1972
1x9

Bob and Emily have been trying for some time to have a child. When they attend a party where the conversation turns to the subject of children, they feel so left out that they decide to adopt a child.

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Anything Happen While I Was Gone?

70%
November 25, 1972
1x10

As soon as Bob returns to the office from his vacation in Mexico, Jerry announces that he is about to be married to a girl he met nine days ago. Cynthia, a beautiful but domineering oral hygienist, becomes too much for Jerry, and he realizes that he has made a mistake.

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I Want to Be Alone

70%
December 2, 1972
1x11

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.

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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.

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1x13

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.

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His Busiest Season

70%
December 23, 1972
1x14

Christmas becomes a sad memory for Bob's group therapy session, and it's evident that "'tis not the season"" for everyone to be jolly. Bob decides to invite the group over for Christmas Eve.

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Let's Get Away From it Almost

70%
January 6, 1973
1x15

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.

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The Crash of 29 Years Old

80%
January 13, 1973
1x16

Feeling unfulfilled as a woman, and having just passed her 29th birthday, Carol quits her job as Bob's receptionist. After having been gone for a while, Carol suddenly shows up at one of Bob's group-therapy sessions and creates a situation in which Bob finds himself more of a patient than a doctor.

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The Man with the Golden Wrist

70%
January 20, 1973
1x17

Bob refuses to wear the beautiful gold watch Emily gave him for his 40th birthday after he learns just how expensive it was.

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The Two Loves of Dr. Hartley

60%
January 27, 1973
1x18

When one of his patients falls in love with him, Bob has problems at the office and at home.

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Not With My Sister You Don't

50%
February 3, 1973
1x19

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.

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A Home is Not Necessarily a House

70%
February 10, 1973
1x20

Bob and Emily try to decide if they should give up their apartment and buy a house.

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Emily, I'm Home... Emily?

70%
February 17, 197330m
1x21

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.

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You Can't Win 'Em All

70%
February 24, 1973
1x22

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.

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Bum Voyage

70%
March 3, 1973
1x23

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.

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Who's Been Sleeping on My Couch?

60%
Season Finale
March 10, 197330m
1x24

Recovering from another broken romance, Jerry Robinson accepts Bob's invitation to spend a couple of days at his apartment. Bob soon comes to regret his kindness.

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Last TV Show

80%
September 15, 1973
2x1

Bob's therapy group insists that he accept an invitation for the group to conduct one of its weekly sessions on television.

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Motel

70%
September 22, 1973
2x2

A trip to Peoria turns into one long embarrassment for Bob when Jerry introduces him to a pretty girl named Janine. Janine doesn't seem to care that Bob is a married man.

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Backlash

70%
September 29, 1973
2x3

One of Bob's more masculine patients enthusiastically slaps him on the back—and, unfortunately for Bob, it throws his back out. Even more unfortunately, Bob and Emily were supposed to be going to Mexico for a vacation.

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Somebody Down Here Likes Me

80%
October 6, 1973
2x4

Rev. Dan Bradford seeks professional advice from Bob then makes a startling announcement in his Sunday sermon.

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Emily in for Carol

80%
October 13, 1973
2x5

With Carol on vacation, Emily is elected to fill in as the receptionist. Everyone loves the idea—except Bob.

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Have You Met Miss Dietz?

70%
October 20, 1973
2x6

Marilyn Dietz, a very attractive divorcee, creates a feud between Jerry and Howard when she starts dating both of them.

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Old Man Rivers

0%
October 27, 1973
2x7

A rather embarrassing operation leads to romance between Carol and her doctor. Everyone questions the relationship due to the new couple's age disparity.

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Mister Emily Hartley

80%
November 3, 1973
2x8

Bob suffers an inferiority attack when a test reveals that Emily's IQ is higher than his.

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Mutiny on the Hartley

80%
November 10, 1973
2x9

Bob decides to meet the rising cost of living by raising his rates. But the members of his therapy group revolt when he picks the most inappropriate moment to tell them.

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I'm Okay, You're Okay, So What's Wrong?

70%
November 17, 197330m
2x10

Bob turns out to be an uncooperative patient when Emily makes an appointment for them to see a marriage counselor.

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Fit, Fat, and Forty-One

70%
November 24, 1973
2x11

Determined to lose eight pounds from around his middle, Bob goes on a strict diet. With Jerry's help, he joins a weight-reducing class that seems to be populated mostly by women.

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Blues for Mr. Borden

0%
December 1, 197330m
2x12

Howard's son, Howie is visiting. Howard tells Bob he and his ex-wife, Lois, are getting along really well lately, and he thinks she wants to get together again, but Howard's upset to find out she's getting married, and wants Howard's approval.

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My Wife Belongs to Daddy

80%
December 8, 1973
2x13

Emily's parents pay a surprise visit that makes Bob terribly uncomfortable. Emily's father is gregarious, well-traveled, a war hero, an outdoors man—in short, everything that Bob isn't.

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T. S. Elliot

80%
December 15, 1973
2x14

Bob's patient Elliot Carlin parades all his phobias and insecurities as he prepares to ask Carol Kester for a date. He then finds it even harder to accept her answer—which is ""yes.""

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I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas

70%
December 22, 1973
2x15

Christmas Eve is almost spoiled when Bob is trapped in the office because of a power failure.

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Oh, Brother

60%
January 5, 197430m
2x16

Jerry Robinson's brother shows up in Chicago after finishing dental school. He takes over Jerry's life, his apartment, and his dental practice.

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The Modernization of Emily

80%
January 12, 1974
2x17

Emily decides to update her image with a kicky new wardrobe that she says is youthful and Bob says is childish.

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The Jobless Corps

70%
January 19, 1974
2x18

Depressed after losing his job with the airline, Howard accepts Bob's offer to join his ""out of workshop,"" a special therapy group for the unemployed. (Bob extends the invitation at Emily's insistence when Howard's attempts to help her around the apartment begin driving her up the wall.)

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Clink Shrink

70%
January 26, 1974
2x19

Hoping to make a contribution to society, Bob offers his psychological counseling services free to a parolee out on an armed-robbery conviction. But Bob seems to be more influenced by his patient's manner than the patient is by Bob's therapy.

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Mind Your Own Business

70%
February 2, 1974
2x20

At Jerry's urging, Bob hires a business manager to handle his money. He ends up living on a meager allowance that affords him only such luxuries as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch.

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A Love Story

40%
February 9, 1974
2x21

Howard falls head over heels in love with Bob's sister Ellen. Under most circumstances, Bob would find this perfectly acceptable—except that Ellen is getting married to someone else.

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By the Way... You're Fired

70%
February 16, 1974
2x22

When Carol's new love interest interferes with her work, Jerry Robinson doesn't seemed too concerned. But when it disrupts his love life, he decides to fire her.

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Confessions of An Orthodontist

0%
February 23, 1974
2x23

While filling in for a fellow psychologist, Bob is surprised to find that his first patient is Jerry Robinson, who is reluctant to reveal his problem. A little prodding produces the startling admission that Jerry is in love with Emily.

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A Matter of Principal

0%
Season Finale
March 2, 1974
2x24

It's a matter of principal versus principle when Emily refuses to skip one of her students ahead two grades at the elementary school where she teaches.

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Big Brother is Watching

70%
September 14, 1974
3x1

Bob is faced with the possibility that his younger sister, Ellen, may move in with Howard, her boyfriend.

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The Battle of the Groups

70%
September 21, 1974
3x2

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.

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Dr Newman removed a wart from Bob's neck and charged him. Bob tells Jerry he should have done it for free since Bob had helped him with his marriage. Jerry agrees and sets up a plan where all the doctors treat each other for free.

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The Separation Story

70%
October 5, 1974
3x4

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.

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Sorry, Wrong Mother

40%
October 12, 197430m
3x5

As Howard prepares to introduce Howie to Ellen, he tries to remold Ellen into an image the boy will like.

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The Gray Flannel Shrink

70%
October 19, 1974
3x6

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.

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Dr. Ryan's Express

70%
October 26, 1974
3x7

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.

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Brutally Yours, Bob Hartley

70%
November 2, 1974
3x8

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.

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Ship of Shrinks

70%
November 9, 1974
3x9

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.

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Life is a Hamburger

70%
November 16, 1974
3x10

Carol's announcement that she's going to marry Don Fesler—an unpublished poet with bad feet—brings negative reactions from her friends.

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An American Family

80%
November 23, 1974
3x11

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.

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We Love You... Good-Bye

60%
November 30, 197430m
3x12

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.

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Jerry Robinson Crusoe

60%
December 7, 1974
3x13

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.

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Serve for Daylight

40%
December 14, 1974
3x14

Bob thinks his chances of winning a doctor's tennis tournament are pretty good until he learns that his doubles partner will be Emily.

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Home is Where the Hurt Is

40%
December 21, 1974
3x15

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.

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Tobin's Back in Town

60%
January 4, 1975
3x16

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.

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Think Smartly--Vote Hartley

70%
January 11, 1975
3x17

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.

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The Way We Weren't

60%
January 18, 1975
3x18

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.

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A Pound of Flesh

70%
January 25, 1975
3x19

Bob and Jerry have a falling-out when Jerry demands that Bob lend him money for a new motorcycle.

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My Business is Shrinking

70%
February 1, 1975
3x20

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.

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The New Look

70%
February 8, 1975
3x21

Emily redecorates the apartment in antiques. Bob finds her choice of furniture uncomfortable, unappealing, and hazardous to his health.

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Bob Hits the Ceiling

70%
February 15, 1975
3x22

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.

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Emily Hits the Ceiling

70%
February 22, 1975
3x23

Emily agrees to help operate a children's summer camp and tries to persuade Bob to be one of the counselors.

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The Ceiling Hits Bob

0%
Season Finale
March 8, 1975
3x24

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.

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The Longest Good-Bye

70%
September 13, 1975
4x1

Bob's old school friend Murdock is in town for a day to sell a complex giveaway item to a Chicago cereal company. Bob invites him to stay overnight at his home. The brief encounter stretches out to a week when Murdock can't make his business connections. He gradually takes over Bob's car, clothing, and most of his home life.

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Here's Looking at You, Kid

40%
September 20, 1975
4x2

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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Death of a Fruitman

70%
September 27, 1975
4x3

Bob's patients observe tradition by planning a surprise party to honor the fourth year of the group's therapy sessions. When an unseen member, a Mr. Gianelli, threatens to turn the party into a disaster, Bob kicks him out of the group. His decision meets with instant group approval until Mr. Gianelli dies under a ton of zucchini.

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Change is Gonna Do Me Good

40%
October 4, 1975
4x4

Emily accuses Bob of being stuck in a middle-aged rut and challenges him to switch family responsibilities.

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The Heavyweights

40%
October 11, 1975
4x5

Bob and Emily invite Carol to share her ""heavy"" experiences with the ""overweight workshop.""

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Carol's Wedding

70%
October 18, 1975
4x6

A blind-date-initiated, 12-hour romance culminates in Carol Kester's civil marriage to a handsome travel agent.

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Shrinks Across the Sea

80%
October 25, 1975
4x7

Bob and Emily suffer international complications when they host a French psychologist in their home as part of a medical exchange program.

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What's It All About, Albert?

70%
November 1, 197530m
4x8

Bob is depressed by his seeming lack of success as a psychologist. He seeks help from his old college professor, who manages to heighten his despair by informing him that psychology is all nonsense.

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Who is Mr. X?

80%
November 8, 197530m
4x9

Bob accepts a seemingly innocent invitation to appear as the guest on a TV discussion program. He winds up in the jaws of a dilemma when the show host turns out to have the disposition of a shark.

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Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

70%
November 15, 197530m
4x10

Bob moves up in the world from the seventh to the tenth floor when he joins the firm of a swinging psychiatrist.

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Over the River and Through the Woods

70%
November 22, 1975
4x11

It's a stag Thanksgiving for Bob when Emily flies off to join a family reunion, leaving Bob to share the holiday with his male buddies.

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Fathers and Sons and Mothers

70%
November 29, 197530m
4x12

Bob suffers family problems when his mother becomes a houseguest and an elderly patient involves him in a parent-child vendetta.

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The Article

70%
December 6, 1975
4x13

When she's given an assignment to see what makes a bunch of doctors tick, inquiring news reporter Ellen Hartley gives Bob and his medical cohorts the tell-it-like-it-is treatment.

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A Matter of Vice-Principal

0%
December 13, 1975
4x14

Emily must contend with irate teachers, hamsters, and an escaped snake when she's unexpectedly upped to the position of school vice principal.

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Christmas Eve finds Bob in the hospital with tonsillitis and an impending operation. Meanwhile, his friends are all suffering from an attack of Christmas-itis.

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No Sale

0%
January 3, 1976
4x16

Bob becomes his patient's partner in a get-rich-quick real-estate venture.

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Carol at 6:01

0%
January 10, 1976
4x17

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.

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Warden Gordon Borden

60%
January 17, 1976
4x18

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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My Boy Guillermo

60%
January 24, 1976
4x19

Jerry Robinson's depression turns to instant joy when a globe-trotting ex-flame suddenly re-enters his life and proposes.

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Duke of Dunk

70%
January 31, 1976
4x20

A professional basketball team hires Bob to give a psychological assist to its superstar.

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Guaranteed Not to Shrink

0%
February 7, 1976
4x21

Bob develops a unique psychological problem when his receptionist, Carol, decides to resume her college career and become a psychologist.

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Birth of a Salesman

0%
February 14, 1976
4x22

The Hartleys are bombarded with legal hassles when Bob is sued by a shy patient and Emily decides to fight a parking ticket.

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The Boy Next Door

0%
February 21, 1976
4x23

The Hartleys entertain Howard Borden's young son and hire a beauty queen as his babysitter.

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Peeper Two

0%
Season Finale
February 28, 1976
4x24

Cliff Murdock, Bob's old laugh-a-minute college buddy, affectionately known as The Peeper, pays a return visit.

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Enter Mrs. Peeper

70%
September 25, 1976
5x1

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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Caged Fury

80%
October 2, 1976
5x2

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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Some of My Best Friends Are...

0%
October 9, 1976
5x3

Bob's therapy group has an unexpected visitor when a friendly homosexual joins in the sessions.

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Still Crazy After All These Years

0%
October 16, 1976
5x4

The Hartleys take a vacation. In their absence, Howard undergoes a crash psychological program that changes his entire personality.

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The Great Rent Strike

0%
October 23, 1976
5x5

The Hartley apartment becomes a hot and cold battleground when the good doctor declares psychological warfare on his landlord.

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Et, Tu, Carol?

0%
October 30, 1976
5x6

Both Bob's receptionist and a Buddha figure with a clock in its navel give the psychologist a hard time.

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Send This Boy to Camp

0%
November 6, 1976
5x7

Bob and his friends host an orphan contingent for a wildly improbable camping-out experience.

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A Crime Most Foul

0%
November 13, 1976
5x8

Bob turns amateur detective when he believes that his expensive tape recorder has been stolen.

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The Slammer

80%
November 20, 1976
5x9

Bob and his friend ""The Peeper"" take a trip down Memory Lane and wind up in the slammer.

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Jerry's Retirement

70%
November 27, 1976
5x10

Bob defends the work ethic when Jerry comes into a pile of money and promptly retires from the dental profession.

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Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson

0%
December 4, 1976
5x11

Jerry, retired orthodontist and orphan, takes off on a world tour to search for his long-lost parents.

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Breaking Up is Hard to Do

70%
December 11, 1976
5x12

Bob undergoes a shock when his mother announces that she has separated from his father after 47 years of marriage.

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Making Up is the Thing to Do

80%
December 25, 1976
5x13

Bob takes on the role of Christmas peacemaker when he attempts to reconcile his parents.

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Love is the Blindest

70%
January 8, 1977
5x14

Bob watches in amazement as one of his patients supports a blossoming romance with a tissue of lies.

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The Ironwood Experience

80%
January 15, 1977
5x15

Bob's invitation to lecture at a prestigious sex seminar results in distress when the audience shows up nude.

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Of Mice and Men

40%
January 22, 1977
5x16

Bob runs into marital problems when he brings his therapy group home for a wild role-playing encounter.

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Halls of Hartley

70%
January 29, 1977
5x17

Bob succumbs to the pressures of living in a big city and desperately seeks employment of a small rural college.

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The Heartbreak Kidd

70%
February 5, 1977
5x18

Bob thinks that Veronica Kidd, a student trainee, has fallen in love with him.

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Death Be My Destiny

80%
February 12, 1977
5x19

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.

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Taxation Without Celebration

0%
February 19, 1977
5x20

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.

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Desperate Sessions

0%
February 26, 1977
5x21

Bob is held hostage in his office by a friendly bank robber.

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The Mentor

70%
March 5, 1977
5x22

A despondent friend accepts Bob's suggestion and turns the psychologist's reception area into a mini-Polynesian village.

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Shrinking Violence

70%
March 12, 1977
5x23

Bob offers sound psychological advice to his wife and his therapy group on how to handle anger. Then he proceeds to blow up himself.

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You're Having My Hartley

80%
Season Finale
March 19, 1977
5x24

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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Bob's Change of Life

80%
September 24, 1977
6x1

Bob's well-ordered life turns topsy-turvy when he and Emily move to a new Chicago residence.

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Ex-Con Job

70%
October 1, 1977
6x2

Bob's attempt at treating convicts who are about to be released has him climbing the walls.

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A Jackie Story

70%
October 8, 1977
6x3

Jerry is terrified of losing his new dream girl.

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Who Was That Masked Man?

0%
October 15, 1977
6x4

Bob is puzzled when his henpecked patient, Mr. Petersen, asserts himself with far-reaching consequences.

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Carlin's New Suit

0%
October 22, 1977
6x5

Bob deals with the amusing problems of an improbable paternity suit and a phone paging service that never pages him.

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A Day in the Life

80%
October 29, 1977
6x6

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.

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My Son the Comedian

0%
November 12, 1977
6x7

It's no laughing matter for Howard when his 12 year old son Howie announces he's leaving home to become a comedian.

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You're Fired, Mr. Chips

0%
November 19, 1977
6x8

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.

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Shallow Throat

0%
November 26, 1977
6x9

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.

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A Girl in Her Twenties

0%
December 3, 1977
6x10

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.

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Grand Delusion

0%
December 17, 1977
6x11

Bob and Emily celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary with a dream flight into the fantasy of being married to different partners.

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'Twas the Pie Before Christmas

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December 24, 1977
6x12

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.

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Freudian Ship

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January 7, 1978
6x13

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.

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Grizzly Emily

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January 14, 1978
6x14

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.

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Son of an Ex-Con Job

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January 21, 1978
6x15

Bob counsels a quintet of jovial ex-convicts to help them find honest employment.

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Group on a Hot Tin Roof

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January 28, 1978
6x16

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.

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Emily Carlin, Emily Carlin

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February 4, 1978
6x17

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.

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Easy for You to Say

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February 11, 1978
6x18

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.

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It Didn't Happen One Night

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February 18, 1978
6x19

Bob's friends close ranks to ""protect"" Emily Hartley when a handsome old flame pays her a very warm visit.

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Carol Ankles for Indie-Prod

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March 4, 1978
6x20

On the eve of being announced ""Secretary of the Year,"" Carol informs Bob that she's leaving his employ.

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Crisis in Education

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March 11, 1978
6x21

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.

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Happy Trails to You

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Season Finale
April 1, 1978
6x22

Bob gives up his psychological practice in Chicago to become a professor at a small college in Oregon.

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Essentially a continuing episode of the original "The Bob Newhart Show". The plot picks up the day after the "last" episode of "Newhart" which itself morphed back into "The Bob Newhart Show". Dr. Robert Hartley has yet another day at the office which he spends trying to explain his "dream" of the night before which of course was the "Newhart" show. Series regulars Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace and Jack Riley all return to reprise their roles.

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