The Bob Newhart Show Season 5

Season 5

Air date: 1976-09-25

Episodes: 24

Episodes

E1: Enter Mrs. Peeper

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.

Air date: 1976-09-25 • ★ 7

E2: Caged Fury

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

Air date: 1976-10-02 • ★ 8

E3: Some of My Best Friends Are...

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

Air date: 1976-10-09

E4: Still Crazy After All These Years

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

Air date: 1976-10-16

E5: The Great Rent Strike

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

Air date: 1976-10-23

E6: Et, Tu, Carol?

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

Air date: 1976-10-30

E7: Send This Boy to Camp

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

Air date: 1976-11-06

E8: A Crime Most Foul

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

Air date: 1976-11-13

E9: The Slammer

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

Air date: 1976-11-20 • ★ 8

E10: Jerry's Retirement

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

Air date: 1976-11-27 • ★ 7

E11: Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson

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

Air date: 1976-12-04

E12: Breaking Up is Hard to Do

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

Air date: 1976-12-11 • ★ 7

E13: Making Up is the Thing to Do

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

Air date: 1976-12-25 • ★ 8

E14: Love is the Blindest

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

Air date: 1977-01-08 • ★ 7

E15: The Ironwood Experience

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

Air date: 1977-01-15 • ★ 8

E16: Of Mice and Men

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

Air date: 1977-01-22 • ★ 4

E17: Halls of Hartley

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

Air date: 1977-01-29 • ★ 7

E18: The Heartbreak Kidd

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

Air date: 1977-02-05 • ★ 7

E19: Death Be My Destiny

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.

Air date: 1977-02-12 • ★ 8

E20: Taxation Without Celebration

Bob's memory is taxed to the limit when he forgets that April 15 is the Federal income tax deadlineâ€”and also the date of the Hartleys' seventh wedding anniversary.

Air date: 1977-02-19

E21: Desperate Sessions

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

Air date: 1977-02-26

E22: The Mentor

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

Air date: 1977-03-05 • ★ 7

E23: Shrinking Violence

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

Air date: 1977-03-12 • ★ 7

E24: You're Having My Hartley

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 bombshellâ€”and Bob nearly comes unglued at the prospect of becoming a father.

Air date: 1977-03-19 • ★ 8