Bob Newhart
Robert Hartley
Series SeasonSeason 5 episodes1976
The Bob Newhart Show
Season 5
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Episode 11976-09-25
Enter Mrs. Peeper
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.
Episode 21976-10-02
Caged Fury
The Hartleys miss their friend's gala Fourth of July Bicentennial party celebration when they become trapped in a storage locker.
Episode 31976-10-09
Some of My Best Friends Are...
Bob's therapy group has an unexpected visitor when a friendly homosexual joins in the sessions.
Episode 41976-10-16
Still Crazy After All These Years
The Hartleys take a vacation. In their absence, Howard undergoes a crash psychological program that changes his entire personality.
Episode 51976-10-23
The Great Rent Strike
The Hartley apartment becomes a hot and cold battleground when the good doctor declares psychological warfare on his landlord.
Episode 61976-10-30
Et, Tu, Carol?
Both Bob's receptionist and a Buddha figure with a clock in its navel give the psychologist a hard time.
Episode 71976-11-06
Send This Boy to Camp
Bob and his friends host an orphan contingent for a wildly improbable camping-out experience.
Episode 81976-11-13
A Crime Most Foul
Bob turns amateur detective when he believes that his expensive tape recorder has been stolen.
Episode 91976-11-20
The Slammer
Bob and his friend The Peeper take a trip down Memory Lane and wind up in the slammer.
Episode 101976-11-27
Jerry's Retirement
Bob defends the work ethic when Jerry comes into a pile of money and promptly retires from the dental profession.
Episode 111976-12-04
Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson
Jerry, retired orthodontist and orphan, takes off on a world tour to search for his long-lost parents.
Episode 121976-12-11
Breaking Up is Hard to Do
Bob undergoes a shock when his mother announces that she has separated from his father after 47 years of marriage.
Episode 131976-12-25
Making Up is the Thing to Do
Bob takes on the role of Christmas peacemaker when he attempts to reconcile his parents.
Episode 141977-01-08
Love is the Blindest
Bob watches in amazement as one of his patients supports a blossoming romance with a tissue of lies.
Episode 151977-01-15
The Ironwood Experience
Bob's invitation to lecture at a prestigious sex seminar results in distress when the audience shows up nude.
Episode 161977-01-22
Of Mice and Men
Bob runs into marital problems when he brings his therapy group home for a wild role-playing encounter.
Episode 171977-01-29
Halls of Hartley
Bob succumbs to the pressures of living in a big city and desperately seeks employment of a small rural college.
Episode 181977-02-05
The Heartbreak Kidd
Bob thinks that Veronica Kidd, a student trainee, has fallen in love with him.
Episode 191977-02-12
Death Be My Destiny
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.
Episode 201977-02-19
Taxation Without Celebration
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.
Episode 211977-02-26
Desperate Sessions
Bob is held hostage in his office by a friendly bank robber.
Episode 221977-03-05
The Mentor
A despondent friend accepts Bob's suggestion and turns the psychologist's reception area into a mini-Polynesian village.
Episode 231977-03-12
Shrinking Violence
Bob offers sound psychological advice to his wife and his therapy group on how to handle anger. Then he proceeds to blow up himself.
Episode 241977-03-19
You're Having My Hartley
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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