The Bob Newhart Show — Season 5

Aired 25 September 1976

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.

Aired 2 October 1976

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

Aired 9 October 1976

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

Aired 16 October 1976

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

Aired 23 October 1976

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

Aired 30 October 1976

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

Aired 6 November 1976

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

Aired 13 November 1976

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

Aired 20 November 1976

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

Aired 27 November 1976

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

Aired 4 December 1976

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

Aired 11 December 1976

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

Aired 25 December 1976

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

Aired 8 January 1977

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

Aired 15 January 1977

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

Aired 22 January 1977

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

Aired 29 January 1977

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

Aired 5 February 1977

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

Aired 12 February 1977

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.

Aired 19 February 1977

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.

Aired 26 February 1977

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

Aired 5 March 1977

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

Aired 12 March 1977

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

Aired 19 March 1977

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.