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24 episodes

The Bob Newhart Show - Season 5

First aired Sep 25, 1976Season 5

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

Enter Mrs. Peeper

7.0
Sep 25, 19761 votes

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.

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Episode 2

Caged Fury

8.0
Oct 2, 19761 votes

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

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Episode 3

Some of My Best Friends Are...

NR
Oct 9, 1976

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

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Episode 4

Still Crazy After All These Years

NR
Oct 16, 1976

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

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Episode 5

The Great Rent Strike

NR
Oct 23, 1976

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

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Episode 6

Et, Tu, Carol?

NR
Oct 30, 1976

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

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Episode 7

Send This Boy to Camp

NR
Nov 6, 1976

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

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Episode 8

A Crime Most Foul

NR
Nov 13, 1976

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

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Episode 9

The Slammer

8.0
Nov 20, 19761 votes

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

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Episode 10

Jerry's Retirement

7.0
Nov 27, 19761 votes

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

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Episode 11

Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson

NR
Dec 4, 1976

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

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Episode 12

Breaking Up is Hard to Do

7.0
Dec 11, 19761 votes

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

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Episode 13

Making Up is the Thing to Do

8.0
Dec 25, 19761 votes

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

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Episode 14

Love is the Blindest

7.0
Jan 8, 19771 votes

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

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Episode 15

The Ironwood Experience

8.0
Jan 15, 19771 votes

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

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Episode 16

Of Mice and Men

4.0
Jan 22, 19771 votes

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

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Episode 17

Halls of Hartley

7.0
Jan 29, 19771 votes

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

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Episode 18

The Heartbreak Kidd

7.0
Feb 5, 19771 votes

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

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Episode 19

Death Be My Destiny

8.0
Feb 12, 19771 votes

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.

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Episode 20

Taxation Without Celebration

NR
Feb 19, 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.

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Episode 21

Desperate Sessions

NR
Feb 26, 1977

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

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Episode 22

The Mentor

7.0
Mar 5, 19771 votes

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

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Episode 23

Shrinking Violence

7.0
Mar 12, 19771 votes

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

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Episode 24

You're Having My Hartley

8.0
Mar 19, 19771 votes

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.