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Season 1

Season 1, Episode 1: Fly the Unfriendly Skies

Original Air Date—16 September 1972
Psychologist Bob Hartley shepherds his "Fear of Flying" class on a graduation trip to from Chicago to New York. His wife Emily is supposed to jet along too, but Bob finds out why they honeymooned in Gary, Indiana - she's also terrified of airplanes. Bob schedules a confident, brilliant expert as guest speaker, his neighbor, airline navigator Howard Borden to comfort his class, which includes Mr. Carlin & Mrs. Bakerman.

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 2 -- It's vocation day in Emily's class and Bob feels left out when he's not invited. At the last minute, Emily asks him to fill in and her worst fears are confirmed when Bob fails to excite the kids' interests.

Season 1, Episode 2: Tracy Grammar School, I'll Lick You Yet

Original Air Date—23 September 1972
Bob has no clue how to explain what a psychologist does, to a 3rd grade class. That's why his wife Emily refuses to invite him to her career day. Bob's strong ego can withstand such a blow, and his supportive friends, Howard & Jerry, though they are presenting at career day, wouldn't dream of ridiculing Bob about it.

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 3 -- Bob gets jealous when Emily's handsome new tennis instructor, Stan Connors, played by Peter Brown, comes to see him with a problem--his inability to turn down women who are attracted to him.

Season 1, Episode 3: Tennis, Emily?

Original Air Date—30 September 1972
Teacher Emily finds love with her hunky new tennis instructor, when Bob urges she get out of bed and enjoy her summer vacation. The instructor also slides onto Bob's couch as a patient, because Bob has no concept of the terrors of being incredibly good looking and constantly pursued by women with sudden desires to learn tennis.

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 4 -- Bob receives a telephone call from his mother. After hanging up he tells Emily how tough it is for him to communicate with his mother, especially telling her he loves her.

Season 1, Episode 4: Mom, I L-L-Love You

Original Air Date—7 October 1972

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 5 -- Bob's college steady, Nancy, and her husband, Chuck, visit Bob and Emily.

Season 1, Episode 5: Goodnight Nancy

Original Air Date—21 October 1972

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 6 -- Carol seeks Bob's approval of her moving in with her boyfriend Roger, who's just left his wife. Bob refuses, advising her to make up her own mind. Emily invites Carol and Roger to dinner where Bob unwittingly talks Roger into going back to his wife.

Season 1, Episode 6: Come Live with Me

Original Air Date—28 October 1972

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 7 -- Howard brings his son Howie along for lunch with Bob and Jerry. Howard's convinced his son doesn't like him because he gets along so well with Jerry.

Season 1, Episode 7: Father Knows Worst

Original Air Date—4 November 1972

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 8 -- Bob wants to watch Monday night football but Emily feels this unfair as they have too little time together and she hates football. This leads to an unresolved, exhausting argument.

Season 1, Episode 8: Don't Go to Bed Mad

Original Air Date—11 November 1972

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 9 -- Bob and Emily have been trying to have a child. They attend a party where an expectant mother is chatting away and they feel so left out, they decide to adopt. They're quite nervous when interviewed, but they qualify.

Season 1, Episode 9: P-I-L-O-T

Original Air Date—18 November 1972

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 10 -- Jerry announces that he's getting married to a woman he met nine days earlier. The girl, Cynthia Fremont, is a beautiful oral hygienist.

Season 1, Episode 10: Anything Happen While I Was Gone?

Original Air Date—25 November 1972

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 11 -- Bob decides for his mental well being, he needs some rest, so he moves into a hotel room. A confused Howard thinks Bob and Emily have split

Season 1, Episode 11: I Want to Be Alone

Original Air Date—2 December 1972

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 12 -- Howard, influenced by drugs from having a tooth pulled, turns Carol on. Emily agrees to help Carol get Howard.

Season 1, Episode 12: Bob and Emily and Howard and Carol and Jerry

Original Air Date—9 December 1972

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 13 -- Jerry decides there's something wrong with him becauase he never becomes interested or serious about any of the girls he dates, so he asks Bob to treat him. Bob agrees, but they have to abandon the plan when it interferes with their friendship.

Season 1, Episode 13: I Owe It All to You... But Not That Much

Original Air Date—16 December 1972

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 14 -- Christmas is a sad time for Bob's patients, for Bob and Emily, too. Bob decides to have a "group" party. The party's a bomb. When the guests realize they're not to blame for the dull evening they perk up and the party's a success.

Season 1, Episode 14: His Busiest Season

Original Air Date—23 December 1972

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 15 -- Bob and Emily decide to get away from it all. They end up vacationing at a ski lodge deserted except for an annoying couple with whom they share a bathroom.

Season 1, Episode 15: Let's Get Away from It Almost

Original Air Date—6 January 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 16 -- Feeling unfulfilled and just turning 29, Carol quits her job, a decision she reaches with Emily's help.

Season 1, Episode 16: The Crash of 29 Years Old

Original Air Date—13 January 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 17 -- Emily's pleasure is short-lived when Bob refuses to wear a watch she's bought him after he learns how expensive it is. Things are even worse at a forced "surprise" party.

Season 1, Episode 17: The Man with the Golden Wrist

Original Air Date—20 January 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 18 -- Bob has successfully helped one of his patients, Mrs. Walker, overcome her emotional dependency on food, and the slimmed down housewife imagines she is in love with him.

Season 1, Episode 18: The Two Loves of Dr. Hartley

Original Air Date—27 January 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 19 -- Swinger Howard Borden suddenly turns into an overprotective big brother when his 22-year-old sister, Debbie, arrives to spend the week with him, and Emily arranges a blind date for her with Jerry Robinson.

Season 1, Episode 19: Not with My Sister You Don't

Original Air Date—3 February 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 20 -- Bob and Emily try to decide if they should give up their apartment and buy a house.

Season 1, Episode 20: A Home Is Not Necessarily a House

Original Air Date—10 February 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 21 -- A dubious Bob agrees to let Emily take a full-time job with the Board of Education, but soon regrets it when their home life begins to suffer. Soon it is necessary to hire a maid and Bob is left alone several nights while Emily works late.

Season 1, Episode 21: Emily, I'm Home - Emily?

Original Air Date—17 February 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 22 -- When a star pitcher for the Chicago Cubs baseball team credits Bob with saving his career, the endorsement brings Bob a new patient, Moose Washburn, a second-string player whose career is beyond the help of a mere psychologist.

Season 1, Episode 22: You Can't Win 'Em All

Original Air Date—24 February 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 23 -- 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. Martin Cohan directed from a script written by Austin and Irma Kalish.

Season 1, Episode 23: Bum Voyage

Original Air Date—3 March 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 1: Episode 24 -- Recovering from another broken romance, Jerry Robinson accepts Bob's invitation to spend a couple of days at this apartment, a kindness that Bob soon comes to regret. Alan Rafkin directed from a script written by Jerry Mayer.

Season 1, Episode 24: Who's Been Sleeping on My Couch?

Original Air Date—10 March 1973

Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1: Last TV Show

Original Air Date—15 September 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 2 -- A trip to Peoria to see the television broadcast of a football game blacked out in Chicago turns into one long embarrassment for Bob when Jerry introduces him to a pretty girl named Janine, who doesn't seem to care that Bob is a married man.

Season 2, Episode 2: Motel

Original Air Date—22 September 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 3 -- Bob and Emily's vacation to Mexico is cancelled by an accident. One of Bob's more masculine patients enthusiastically slaps him on the back and unfortunately for Bob it throws his back out. George Tyne directed from a script written by Susan Silver.

Season 2, Episode 3: Backlash

Original Air Date—29 September 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 4 -- John McMartin, who starred on Broadway in "Follies" plays the Rev. Dan Bradford who, after seeking professional advice from Bob, makes an announcement at his Sunday sermon that startles his parishioners. Directed by Jerry London.

Season 2, Episode 4: Somebody Down Here Likes Me

Original Air Date—6 October 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 5 -- With Carol on vacation, Emily is elected to fill in as the receptionist, an idea that everyone loves, except Bob. Alan Rafkin directed from a script written by Jerry Mayer.

Season 2, Episode 5: Emily in for Carol

Original Air Date—13 October 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 6 -- Mariette Hartley guest stars as Marilyn Dietz, a very attractive divorcee who's enjoying her new-found freedom to such an extent that she creates a small feud between Jerry and Howard when she starts dating the two of them.

Season 2, Episode 6: Have You Met Miss Dietz?

Original Air Date—20 October 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 7 -- A rather embarrassing operation leads to a romance for Carol with her doctor, a relationship that everyone questions due to the disparity in their ages. Written and directed by Martin Cohan

Season 2, Episode 7: Old Man Rivers

Original Air Date—27 October 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 8 -- Bob suffers an inferiority attack when a test reveals that Emily's IQ is higher than his. Jerry London directed from a script wirtten by Charlotte Brown.

Season 2, Episode 8: Mister Emily Hartley

Original Air Date—3 November 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 9 -- Bob's decision to meet the rising cost of living by raising his rates sets off a revolt among members of his therapy group when he picks the most inappropriate moment to tell them.

Season 2, Episode 9: Mutiny on the Hartley

Original Air Date—10 November 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 10 -- Bob turns out to be an uncooperative patient when Emily makes an appointment for them to see a marriage counselor about the boredom that is creeping into their marriage. George Tyne directed from a script written by Earl Barret.

Season 2, Episode 10: I'm Okay, You're Okay, So What's Wrong?

Original Air Date—17 November 1973
When Emily suffers a malaise in the marriage, she and Bob turn to a marriage counselor for help.

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 11 -- Determined to lose eight pounds from around his middle, Bob goes on a strict diet and, with Jerry's help, joins a weight-reducing class that seems to be populated mostly by women.

Season 2, Episode 11: Fit, Fat and Forty One

Original Air Date—24 November 1973
Birthday-boy Bob's physical finds him eight pounds plumper than he should be at 41, so Bob determines to diet and exercise away those excess pounds.

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 12 -- Swinger Howard Borden suffers a bad case of blues when his young son tells him about his marvelous new "uncle" who seems to have taken up permanent residence with Howard's ex-wife.

Season 2, Episode 12: Blues for Mr. Borden

Original Air Date—1 December 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 13 -- Ann Rutherford and John Randolph guest star as Emily's parents, whose surprise visit makes Bob terribly uncomfortable. Emily's father is gregarious, well-traveled, a war hero, and outdoorsman -- in short, everything that Bob isn't.

Season 2, Episode 13: My Wife Belongs to Daddy

Original Air Date—8 December 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 14 -- Bob's patient Elliot Carlin parades out all of 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".

Season 2, Episode 14: T.S. Elliot

Original Air Date—15 December 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 15 -- Christmas Eve is almost spoiled when Bob is trapped in the office because of a power failure.

Season 2, Episode 15: I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas

Original Air Date—22 December 1973

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 16 -- Jerry Robinson's brother shows up in Chicago after finishing dental school and takes over Jerry's life, his apartment and his dental practice. Peter Baldwin directed from a script written by Martin Cohan.

Season 2, Episode 16: Oh, Brother

Original Air Date—5 January 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 17 -- Feeling that middle age is creeping up faster than she realized, Emily decides to update her image with a kicky new wardrobe that she says is youthful and Bob feels is childish.

Season 2, Episode 17: The Modernization of Emily

Original Air Date—12 January 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 18 -- Depressed and feeling useless after losing his job with the airline, Howard accepts Bob's offer to join his "out of work - shop", a special therapy group for the unemployed.

Season 2, Episode 18: The Jobless Corps

Original Air Date—19 January 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 19 -- 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.

Season 2, Episode 19: Clink Shrink

Original Air Date—26 January 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 20 -- At Jerry's urging Bob hires a business manager to handle his money and ends up living on a meager allowance that affords him such luxuries as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch.

Season 2, Episode 20: Mind Your Own Business

Original Air Date—2 February 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 21 -- Howard falls head over heels in love with Bob's sister Ellen, and under most circumstances, Bob would find this perfectly acceptable - except that Ellen is getting married to someone else.

Season 2, Episode 21: A Love Story

Original Air Date—9 February 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 22 -- When Carol's new love interest interferes with her work, Jerry Robinson doesn't seem too concerned, but when it disrupts his love life he decides to fire her.

Season 2, Episode 22: By the Way... You're Fired

Original Air Date—16 February 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 23 -- 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 Bob's wife Emily.

Season 2, Episode 23: Confessions of an Orthodontist

Original Air Date—23 February 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 2: Episode 24 -- It's a matter of principal versus principle when Emily refuses to skip one of her students ahead two grades at the insistent prodding of Mr. Brimskill at the elementary school where she teaches.

Season 2, Episode 24: A Matter of Principal

Original Air Date—2 March 1974

Season 3

Season 3, Episode 1: Big Brother Is Watching

Original Air Date—14 September 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 2 -- When Bob takes two of his therapy groups on a marathon session up at a mountain retreat, the groups’ problems are the last thing that get discussed.

Season 3, Episode 2: The Battle of the Groups

Original Air Date—21 September 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 3 -- Jerry convinces all the doctors to form a co-op so they can treat each other for free—an idea that, unfortunately, doesn’t work out as planned.

Season 3, Episode 3: The Great Timpau Medical Arts Co-Op Experiment

Original Air Date—28 September 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 4 -- Bob’s busy work schedule and Emily’s master’s degree studying cause the couple to decide that it would be a good idea to live apart.

Season 3, Episode 4: The Separation Story

Original Air Date—5 October 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 5 -- Before Howard introduces Ellen to young Howie, he tries to mold her into the type of mother his son will like.

Season 3, Episode 5: Sorry, Wrong Mother

Original Air Date—12 October 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 6 -- Bob gives up most of his private practice to become the staff psychologist at Loggers Casualty Insurance Company—a move he soon regrets.

Season 3, Episode 6: The Gray Flannel Shrink

Original Air Date—19 October 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 7 -- Jerry hires an elderly temporary receptionist who can’t keep anything straight—not even Bob’s name!

Season 3, Episode 7: Dr. Ryan's Express

Original Air Date—26 October 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 8 -- Bob decides to follow his own advice regarding honesty, which promptly gets him in trouble with two dinner guests and Emily.

Season 3, Episode 8: Brutally Yours, Bob Hartley

Original Air Date—2 November 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 9 -- Bob's embarrassment over his published essay makes him rethink his plans to attend a psychology convention in Hawaii.

Season 3, Episode 9: Ship of Shrinks

Original Air Date—9 November 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 10 -- Carol announces that she’s going to marry her eccentric writer boyfriend despite the fact that everyone thinks he’s a little weird.

Season 3, Episode 10: Life Is a Hamburger

Original Air Date—16 November 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 11 -- The Hartley’s wonderful Thanksgiving with Bob’s parents gets derailed when Emily’s parents show up unannounced.

Season 3, Episode 11: An American Family

Original Air Date—23 November 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 12 -- Bob asks Emily to speak at his Women's Consciousness-Raising Group—a move which backfires unexpectedly.

Season 3, Episode 12: We Love You... Good-Bye

Original Air Date—30 November 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 13 -- Jerry decides to give up his dental practice for a life of romance and adventure with his former girlfriend in Tahiti.

Season 3, Episode 13: Jerry Robinson Crusoe

Original Air Date—7 December 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 14 -- Bob feels he has a good chance to win the annual Urology Research Mixed-Doubles Tennis Tournament—until he learns his partner is Emily.

Season 3, Episode 14: Serve for Daylight

Original Air Date—14 December 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 15 -- Depressed about spending the holidays with her domineering parents, Carol passes Christmas Eve with Bob and Emily recounting all her childhood disasters.

Season 3, Episode 15: Home Is Where the Hurt Is

Original Air Date—21 December 1974

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 16 -- Howard’s insecurities suffer a beating when Ellen’s ex-fiancé, the handsome and debonair John Tobin, arrives in town to win Ellen back.

Season 3, Episode 16: Tobin's Back in Town

Original Air Date—4 January 1975

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 17 -- Bob runs for chairman of the local school board against an incumbent that no one has seen at a board meeting for the last six months.

Season 3, Episode 17: Think Smartly--Vote Hartley

Original Air Date—11 January 1975

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 18 -- Emily is shocked to find out the reason Bob won’t talk about the girl he used to date before he started dating Emily.

Season 3, Episode 18: The Way We Weren't

Original Air Date—18 January 1975

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 19 -- Jerry nearly destroys his friendships with both Bob and Howard when he tries to borrow money to buy a motorcycle.

Season 3, Episode 19: A Pound of Flesh

Original Air Date—25 January 1975

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 20 -- Bob is losing his confidence just as fast as he’s losing his patients, so he finally takes Emily’s advice and goes to see a psychologist.

Season 3, Episode 20: My Business Is Shrinking

Original Air Date—1 February 1975
Bob suffers a loss of confidence when several patients cancel appointments. He regains his groove by attending group therapy in a friend's office.

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 21 -- While Bob is away on a business trip, he gives Emily carte blanche to redecorate their apartment—unfortunately, he hates the results.

Season 3, Episode 21: The New Look

Original Air Date—8 February 1975
Bob avoids Emily as she completely redecorates the apartment and he hates the result. When she gives away Bob's favorite chair it is just too much. A compromise is reached.

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 22 -- Bob breaks his own long-standing rule when he agrees to counsel a friend of Emily’s who’s having martial problems.

Season 3, Episode 22: Bob Hits the Ceiling

Original Air Date—15 February 1975

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 23 -- Emily helps organize a children’s summer camp, then tries to persuade Bob to be one of the counselors.

Season 3, Episode 23: Emily Hits the Ceiling

Original Air Date—22 February 1975

"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972): Season 3: Episode 24 -- When the ceiling in his office collapses, Bob attempts to conduct his therapy sessions at home.

Season 3, Episode 24: The Ceiling Hits Bob

Original Air Date—8 March 1975
Bob's sagging office ceiling collapses and he must relocate all his patient sessions. Meanwhile, Carol gets a job offer hoping to make Bob and Jerry to give her a raise and Howard gets a job transfer to New York and informs Ellen that they are to get married and move.

Season 4

Season 4, Episode 1: The Longest Good Bye

Original Air Date—13 September 1975
Bob's college roommate ('the peeper') visits Chicago and shows he has not lost his school age demeanor. He keeps extending his stay, causing friction between Bob and Emily.

Season 4, Episode 2: Here's Looking at You, Kid

Original Air Date—20 September 1975

Season 4, Episode 3: Death of a Fruitman

Original Air Date—27 September 1975

Season 4, Episode 4: Change Is Gonna Do Me Good

Original Air Date—4 October 1975

Season 4, Episode 5: The Heavyweights

Original Air Date—11 October 1975

Season 4, Episode 6: Carol's Wedding

Original Air Date—18 October 1975

Season 4, Episode 7: Shrinks Across the Sea

Original Air Date—25 October 1975

Season 4, Episode 8: What's It All About, Albert?

Original Air Date—1 November 1975

Season 4, Episode 9: Who Is Mr. X?

Original Air Date—8 November 1975

Season 4, Episode 10: Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

Original Air Date—15 November 1975

Season 4, Episode 11: Over the River and Through the Woods

Original Air Date—22 November 1975

Season 4, Episode 12: Fathers and Sons and Mothers

Original Air Date—29 November 1975

Season 4, Episode 13: The Article

Original Air Date—6 December 1975

Season 4, Episode 14: A Matter of Vice-Prinicpal

Original Air Date—13 December 1975

Season 4, Episode 15: Bob Has to Have His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas Eve in

Original Air Date—20 December 1975

Season 4, Episode 16: No Sale

Original Air Date—3 January 1976

Season 4, Episode 17: Carol at 6:01

Original Air Date—10 January 1976

Season 4, Episode 18: Warden Gordon Borden

Original Air Date—17 January 1976
Meet Howard's brother Gordon, a game warden from Oregon who has a history of stealing his kid brother's wallet, skates, shirts and ... girlfriend?

Season 4, Episode 19: My Boy Guillermo

Original Air Date—24 January 1976

Season 4, Episode 20: Duke of Dunk

Original Air Date—31 January 1976
The Chicago Sun Spots' star basketball player is an obnoxious hot dog who Dr. Hartley is asked to teach the virtues of humility, teamwork and good sportsmanship.

Season 4, Episode 21: Guaranteed Not to Shrink

Original Air Date—7 February 1976

Season 4, Episode 22: Birth of a Salesman

Original Air Date—14 February 1976

Season 4, Episode 23: The Boy Next Door

Original Air Date—21 February 1976

Season 4, Episode 24: Peeper Two

Original Air Date—28 February 1976

Season 5

Season 5, Episode 1: Enter Mrs. Peeper

Original Air Date—25 September 1976

Season 5, Episode 2: Caged Fury

Original Air Date—2 October 1976

Season 5, Episode 3: Some of My Best Friends Are...

Original Air Date—9 October 1976

Season 5, Episode 4: Still Crazy After All These Years

Original Air Date—16 October 1976

Season 5, Episode 5: The Great Rent Strike

Original Air Date—23 October 1976

Season 5, Episode 6: Et Tu, Carol?

Original Air Date—30 October 1976

Season 5, Episode 7: Send This Boy to Camp

Original Air Date—6 November 1976

Season 5, Episode 8: A Crime Most Foul

Original Air Date—13 November 1976

Season 5, Episode 9: The Slammer

Original Air Date—20 November 1976

Season 5, Episode 10: Jerry's Retirement

Original Air Date—27 November 1976

Season 5, Episode 11: Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson

Original Air Date—4 December 1976

Season 5, Episode 12: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Original Air Date—11 December 1976

Season 5, Episode 13: Making Up Is the Thing to Do

Original Air Date—25 December 1976

Season 5, Episode 14: Love Is the Blindest

Original Air Date—8 January 1977

Season 5, Episode 15: The Ironwood Experience

Original Air Date—15 January 1977

Season 5, Episode 16: Of Mice and Men

Original Air Date—22 January 1977

Season 5, Episode 17: Halls of Hartley

Original Air Date—29 January 1977

Season 5, Episode 18: The Heartbreak Kidd

Original Air Date—5 February 1977

Season 5, Episode 19: Death Be My Destiny

Original Air Date—12 February 1977

Season 5, Episode 20: Taxation Without Celebration

Original Air Date—19 February 1977

Season 5, Episode 21: Desperate Sessions

Original Air Date—26 February 1977

Season 5, Episode 22: The Mentor

Original Air Date—5 March 1977

Season 5, Episode 23: Shrinking Violence

Original Air Date—12 March 1977

Season 5, Episode 24: You're Having My Hartley

Original Air Date—19 March 1977

Season 6

Season 6, Episode 1: Bob's Change of Life

Original Air Date—24 September 1977

Season 6, Episode 2: Ex-Con Job

Original Air Date—1 October 1977

Season 6, Episode 3: A Jackie Story

Original Air Date—8 October 1977

Season 6, Episode 4: Who Was That Masked Man?

Original Air Date—15 October 1977

Season 6, Episode 5: Carlin's New Suit

Original Air Date—22 October 1977

Season 6, Episode 6: A Day in the Life

Original Air Date—29 October 1977

Season 6, Episode 7: My Son the Comedian

Original Air Date—12 November 1977

Season 6, Episode 8: You're Fired, Mr. Chips

Original Air Date—19 November 1977

Season 6, Episode 9: Shallow Throat

Original Air Date—26 November 1977

Season 6, Episode 10: A Girl in Her Twenties

Original Air Date—3 December 1977

Season 6, Episode 11: Grand Delusion

Original Air Date—17 December 1977

Season 6, Episode 12: 'Twas the Pie Before Christmas

Original Air Date—24 December 1977

Season 6, Episode 13: Freudian Ship

Original Air Date—7 January 1978

Season 6, Episode 14: Grizzly Emily

Original Air Date—14 January 1978

Season 6, Episode 15: Son of an Ex-Con Job

Original Air Date—21 January 1978

Season 6, Episode 16: Group on a Hot Tin Roof

Original Air Date—28 January 1978

Season 6, Episode 17: Emily Carlin, Emily Carlin

Original Air Date—4 February 1978

Season 6, Episode 18: Easy for You to Say

Original Air Date—11 February 1978

Season 6, Episode 19: It Didn't Happen One Night

Original Air Date—18 February 1978

Season 6, Episode 20: Carol Ankles for Indie-Prod

Original Air Date—4 March 1978

Season 6, Episode 21: Crisis in Education

Original Air Date—11 March 1978

Season 6, Episode 22: Happy Trails to You

Original Air Date—1 April 1978

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