The Bob Newhart Show

  • Premiered: Sep 1972
  • Episodes: 142
  • Followers: 20
  • Ended
  • CBS
  • Unknown
  • Comedy

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Season 3
3x1
Big Brother is Watching
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 14, 1974
Bob is faced with the possibility that his younger sister, Ellen, may move in with Howard, her boyfriend.
3x2
The Battle of the Groups
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 21, 1974
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.
3x3
The Great Rimpau Medical Arts Co-Op Experiment
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 28, 1974
Jerry Robinson suggests that all the doctors in the building form a co-op to treat each other for free. This leads to chaos and hostility that find expression in Bob's special all-doctor therapy group.
3x4
The Separation Story
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 05, 1974
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.
3x5
Sorry, Wrong Mother
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 12, 1974
As Howard prepares to introduce Howie to Ellen, he tries to remold Ellen into an image the boy will like.
3x6
The Gray Flannel Shrink
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 19, 1974
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.
3x7
Dr. Ryan's Express
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 26, 1974
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.
3x8
Brutally Yours, Bob Hartley
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 02, 1974
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.
3x9
Ship of Shrinks
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 09, 1974
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.
3x10
Life is a Hamburger
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 16, 1974
Carol's announcement that she's going to marry Don Fesler an unpublished poet with bad feet brings negative reactions from her friends.
3x11
An American Family
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 23, 1974
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.
3x12
We Love You... Good-Bye
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 30, 1974
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.
3x13
Jerry Robinson Crusoe
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 07, 1974
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.
3x14
Serve for Daylight
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 14, 1974
Bob thinks his chances of winning a doctor's tennis tournament are pretty good until he learns that his doubles partner will be Emily.
3x15
Home is Where the Hurt Is
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 21, 1974
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.
3x16
Tobin's Back in Town
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 04, 1975
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.
3x17
Think Smartly--Vote Hartley
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 11, 1975
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.
3x18
The Way We Weren't
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 18, 1975
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.
3x19
A Pound of Flesh
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 25, 1975
Bob and Jerry have a falling-out when Jerry demands that Bob lend him money for a new motorcycle.
3x20
My Business is Shrinking
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 01, 1975
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.
3x21
The New Look
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 08, 1975
Emily redecorates the apartment in antiques. Bob finds her choice of furniture uncomfortable, unappealing, and hazardous to his health.
3x22
Bob Hits the Ceiling
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 15, 1975
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.
3x23
Emily Hits the Ceiling
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 22, 1975
Emily agrees to help operate a children's summer camp and tries to persuade Bob to be one of the counselors.
3x24 Season finale
The Ceiling Hits Bob
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 08, 1975
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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