Newhart — Season 1, Episode 8: Some are Born Writers...Others Have Writers Thrust Upon Them

Episode synopsis

Dick praises an aspiring writer's work to avoid hurting her feelings. The writer's enthusiastic husband quits his job to allow his wife to write full time. It's up to Dick to secure her an agent and teach her to write, all before their savings runs out in a month and a half.

About Newhart

Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George Utley is the handyman at the inn and Leslie Vanderkellen is the maid, with ambitions of being an Olympic Ski champion; she is later replaced by her cousin Stephanie, an heiress who hates her job. Her boyfriend is Dick's yuppie TV producer, Michael Harris. There are many other quirky characters in this fictional little town, including Dick's neighbors Larry, Darryl, and Darryl...three brothers who buy the Minuteman Cafe from Kirk Devane. Besides sharing a name, Darryl and Darryl never speak.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1In the Beginning...
• E2Mrs. Newton's Body Lies A'Mould'ring in the Grave
• E3Hail to the Councilman
• E4Shall We Gather at the River?
• E5This Probably is Condemned
• E6No Tigers at the Circus
• E7The Perfect Match
• E9No Room at the Inn
• E10The Senator's Wife Was Indiscreet
• E11Sprained Dreams
• E12The Way We Thought We Were
• E13The Visitors