The Bob Newhart Show

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.

The Hartleys miss their friend's gala Fourth of July Bicentennial party celebration when they become trapped in a storage locker.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.