← The Bob Newhart Show

Season 5

24 episodes · 1976

  1. 1

    Enter Mrs. Peeper

    Sep 25, 197630 min★ 7.2

    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.

  2. 2

    Caged Fury

    Oct 2, 197630 min★ 7.9

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

  3. 3

    Some of My Best Friends Are...

    Oct 9, 197630 min★ 7.2

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

  4. 4

    Still Crazy After All These Years

    Oct 16, 197630 min★ 7.7

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

  5. 5

    The Great Rent Strike

    Oct 23, 197624 min★ 7.7

    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?

    Oct 30, 197625 min★ 7.0

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

  7. 7

    Send This Boy to Camp

    Nov 6, 197624 min★ 7.0

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

  8. 8

    A Crime Most Foul

    Nov 13, 197625 min★ 7.5

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

  9. 9

    The Slammer

    Nov 20, 197625 min★ 7.4

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

  10. 10

    Jerry's Retirement

    Nov 27, 197630 min★ 6.6

    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

    Dec 4, 197624 min★ 7.0

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

  12. 12

    Breaking Up is Hard to Do

    Dec 11, 197625 min★ 7.2

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

  13. 13

    Making Up is the Thing to Do

    Dec 25, 197625 min★ 7.5

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

  14. 14

    Love is the Blindest

    Jan 8, 197725 min★ 7.3

    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

    Jan 15, 197725 min★ 7.5

    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

    Jan 22, 197730 min★ 7.4

    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

    Jan 29, 197725 min★ 7.0

    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

    Feb 5, 197730 min★ 7.5

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

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    Death Be My Destiny

    Feb 12, 197725 min★ 8.2

    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

    Feb 19, 197730 min★ 7.2

    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

    Feb 26, 197724 min★ 7.9

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

  22. 22

    The Mentor

    Mar 5, 197725 min★ 6.9

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

  23. 23

    Shrinking Violence

    Mar 12, 197724 min★ 7.0

    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

    Mar 19, 197725 min★ 7.5

    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.