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24 episodes

The Bob Newhart Show - Season 2

First aired Sep 15, 1973Season 2

Browse all 24 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Last TV Show

8.0
Sep 15, 19731 votes

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

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Episode 2

Motel

7.0
Sep 22, 19731 votes

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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Episode 3

Backlash

7.0
Sep 29, 19731 votes

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 to be going to Mexico for a vacation.

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Episode 4

Somebody Down Here Likes Me

8.0
Oct 6, 19731 votes

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

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Episode 5

Emily in for Carol

8.0
Oct 13, 19731 votes

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

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Episode 6

Have You Met Miss Dietz?

7.0
Oct 20, 19732 votes

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

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Episode 7

Old Man Rivers

NR
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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Episode 8

Mister Emily Hartley

8.0
Nov 3, 19731 votes

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

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Episode 9

Mutiny on the Hartley

8.0
Nov 10, 19731 votes

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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Episode 10

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

7.0
Nov 17, 197330 min1 votes

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

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Episode 11

Fit, Fat, and Forty-One

7.0
Nov 24, 19731 votes

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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Episode 12

Blues for Mr. Borden

NR
Dec 1, 197330 min

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 to find out she's getting married, and wants Howard's approval.

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Episode 13

My Wife Belongs to Daddy

8.0
Dec 8, 19731 votes

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 isn't.

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Episode 14

T. S. Elliot

8.0
Dec 15, 19731 votes

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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Episode 15

I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas

7.0
Dec 22, 19731 votes

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

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Episode 16

Oh, Brother

6.0
Jan 5, 197430 min1 votes

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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Episode 17

The Modernization of Emily

8.0
Jan 12, 19741 votes

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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Episode 18

The Jobless Corps

7.0
Jan 19, 19741 votes

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 at Emily's insistence when Howard's attempts to help her around the apartment begin driving her up the wall.)

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Episode 19

Clink Shrink

7.0
Jan 26, 19741 votes

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 by his patient's manner than the patient is by Bob's therapy.

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Episode 20

Mind Your Own Business

7.0
Feb 2, 19741 votes

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 sandwiches for lunch.

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Episode 21

A Love Story

4.0
Feb 9, 19741 votes

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 else.

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Episode 22

By the Way... You're Fired

7.0
Feb 16, 19741 votes

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.

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Episode 23

Confessions of An Orthodontist

NR
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 the startling admission that Jerry is in love with Emily.

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Episode 24

A Matter of Principal

NR
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.