The Bob Newhart Show: Season 2

S2·E1 Mytharc

Last TV Show

Sep 15, 1973

Bob's therapy group insists that he accept an invitation for the group to conduct one of its weekly sessions on television.

S2·E2 Core

Motel

Sep 22, 1973

A trip to Peoria turns into one long embarrassment for Bob when Jerry introduces him to a pretty girl named Janine. Janine doesn't seem to care that Bob is a married man.

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Backlash

Sep 29, 1973

One of Bob's more masculine patients enthusiastically slaps him on the back—and, unfortunately for Bob, it throws his back out. Even more unfortunately, Bob and Emily were supposed

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Somebody Down Here Likes Me

Oct 6, 1973

Rev. Dan Bradford seeks professional advice from Bob then makes a startling announcement in his Sunday sermon.

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Emily in for Carol

Oct 13, 1973

With Carol on vacation, Emily is elected to fill in as the receptionist. Everyone loves the idea—except Bob.

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Have You Met Miss Dietz?

Oct 20, 1973

Marilyn Dietz, a very attractive divorcee, creates a feud between Jerry and Howard when she starts dating both of them.

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Old Man Rivers

Oct 27, 1973

A rather embarrassing operation leads to romance between Carol and her doctor. Everyone questions the relationship due to the new couple's age disparity.

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Mister Emily Hartley

Nov 3, 1973

Bob suffers an inferiority attack when a test reveals that Emily's IQ is higher than his.

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Mutiny on the Hartley

Nov 10, 1973

Bob decides to meet the rising cost of living by raising his rates. But the members of his therapy group revolt when he picks the most inappropriate moment to tell them.

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I'm Okay, You're Okay, So What's Wrong?

Nov 17, 1973

Bob turns out to be an uncooperative patient when Emily makes an appointment for them to see a marriage counselor.

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Fit, Fat, and Forty-One

Nov 24, 1973

Determined to lose eight pounds from around his middle, Bob goes on a strict diet. With Jerry's help, he joins a weight-reducing class that seems to be populated mostly by women.

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Blues for Mr. Borden

Dec 1, 1973

Howard's son, Howie is visiting. Howard tells Bob he and his ex-wife, Lois, are getting along really well lately, and he thinks she wants to get together again, but Howard's upset

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My Wife Belongs to Daddy

Dec 8, 1973

Emily's parents pay a surprise visit that makes Bob terribly uncomfortable. Emily's father is gregarious, well-traveled, a war hero, an outdoors man—in short, everything that Bob i

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T. S. Elliot

Dec 15, 1973

Bob's patient Elliot Carlin parades all 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.

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I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas

Dec 22, 1973

Christmas Eve is almost spoiled when Bob is trapped in the office because of a power failure.

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Oh, Brother

Jan 5, 1974

Jerry Robinson's brother shows up in Chicago after finishing dental school. He takes over Jerry's life, his apartment, and his dental practice.

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The Modernization of Emily

Jan 12, 1974

Emily decides to update her image with a kicky new wardrobe that she says is youthful and Bob says is childish.

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The Jobless Corps

Jan 19, 1974

Depressed after losing his job with the airline, Howard accepts Bob's offer to join his "out of workshop," a special therapy group for the unemployed. (Bob extends the invitation a

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Clink Shrink

Jan 26, 1974

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

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Mind Your Own Business

Feb 2, 1974

At Jerry's urging, Bob hires a business manager to handle his money. He ends up living on a meager allowance that affords him only such luxuries as peanut butter and jelly sandwich

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A Love Story

Feb 9, 1974

Howard falls head over heels in love with Bob's sister Ellen. Under most circumstances, Bob would find this perfectly acceptable—except that Ellen is getting married to someone els

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By the Way... You're Fired

Feb 16, 1974

When Carol's new love interest interferes with her work, Jerry Robinson doesn't seemed too concerned. But when it disrupts his love life, he decides to fire her.

S2·E23 Mytharc

Confessions of An Orthodontist

Feb 23, 1974

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 th

S2·E24 Mytharc

A Matter of Principal

Mar 2, 1974

It's a matter of principal versus principle when Emily refuses to skip one of her students ahead two grades at the elementary school where she teaches.