Episode
The Bob Newhart Show: His Busiest Season
Overview
Christmas becomes a sad memory for Bob's group therapy session, and it's evident that "'tis not the season" for everyone to be jolly. Bob decides to invite the group over for Christmas Eve.
Details
- Series
- The Bob Newhart Show
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 1972-12-23
Episode context
His Busiest Season is Episode 14 in Season 1 of The Bob Newhart Show. It aired on 1972-12-23.
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Episode 13: I Owe It All to You... But Not That Much
Jerry decides there is something wrong with him because he never becomes serious about any of the girls he dates. He asks Bob if he can become one of his patients. Bob agrees, but they have to abandon the plan when it begins to interfere with their friendship.
Episode 15: Let's Get Away From it Almost
Bob and Emily travel to a ski lodge that's nearly deserted except for the annoying couple with whom they share a bathroom. After sitting through a disastrous dinner, the Hartleys decide to leave only to find themselves caught in the spotlight of the abominable floor show they're trying to escape.
More episodes from this season
Episode 12: Bob and Emily and Howard and Carol and Jerry
Howard "floats" into Bob's office on Cloud Nine after having a tooth pulled. He is so poetic that Carol tells Emily, "I want him." Emily agrees to help Carol get him, and the two have an up-and-down romance.
Episode 16: The Crash of 29 Years Old
Feeling unfulfilled as a woman, and having just passed her 29th birthday, Carol quits her job as Bob's receptionist. After having been gone for a while, Carol suddenly shows up at one of Bob's group-therapy sessions and creates a situation in which Bob finds himself more of a patient than a doctor.
Episode 11: I Want to Be Alone
Bob decides that for his own mental well-being, he needs some peace and quiet. He moves into a hotel room by himself, leaving a confused Howard Borden thinking that Bob and Emily have split up.
Episode 17: The Man with the Golden Wrist
Bob refuses to wear the beautiful gold watch Emily gave him for his 40th birthday after he learns just how expensive it was.
Episode 10: Anything Happen While I Was Gone?
As soon as Bob returns to the office from his vacation in Mexico, Jerry announces that he is about to be married to a girl he met nine days ago. Cynthia, a beautiful but domineering oral hygienist, becomes too much for Jerry, and he realizes that he has made a mistake.
Episode 18: The Two Loves of Dr. Hartley
When one of his patients falls in love with him, Bob has problems at the office and at home.
Episode 9: P-I-L-O-T
Bob and Emily have been trying for some time to have a child. When they attend a party where the conversation turns to the subject of children, they feel so left out that they decide to adopt a child.
Episode 19: Not With My Sister You Don't
Howard Borden's 22-year old sister Debbie arrives to spend the week with him. Emily arranges a blind date for her with Jerry Robinson and Howard suddenly turns into an overprotective big brother.
Episode 8: Don't Go to Bed Mad
Bob wants to watch football every Monday night. Emily feels this is unfair: their other activities allow the couple only two nights each week to be together, and she thinks they should do something that they both enjoy. This leads to an unresolved, all-night argument that ends only when the two participants become exhausted.
Episode 20: A Home is Not Necessarily a House
Bob and Emily try to decide if they should give up their apartment and buy a house.