Episode
The Bob Newhart Show: Father Knows Worst
Overview
Bob's divorced neighbor, Howard Borden, is convinced that his son, Howie, doesn't really like him. Later, Howard's ex-wife convinces him that Howie thinks he is the greatest guy in the world.
Details
- Series
- The Bob Newhart Show
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 7
- Air date
- 1972-11-04
Episode context
Father Knows Worst is Episode 7 in Season 1 of The Bob Newhart Show. It aired on 1972-11-04.
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Episode 6: Come Live with Me
Carol tries to get Bob to approve her moving in with her new boyfriend Roger, who has just separated from his wife. Bob refuses, telling her she will have to make her own decision.
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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 5: Goodnight Nancy
Bob's old girlfriend comes to Chicago with her husband and calls on Emily and Bob.
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 4: Mom, I L-L-Love You
Bob finds it extremely difficult to tell his mother that he loves her.
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 3: Tennis, Emily?
Bob experiences pangs of jealousy when Emily's handsome new tennis instructor comes to see him with an emotional problem, namely, his inability to turn down the women who are all uncontrollably attracted to him.
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 2: Tracy Grammar School, I'll Lick You Yet
It's Vocation Day in Emily's class, and Bob feels left out when he's not invited. At the last minute, he's asked to fill in, but Emily's worst fears are confirmed when Bob fails to excite the kids' interest.
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 1: Fly the Unfriendly Skies
Bob invites Emily to join his fear of flying group on a trip to New York City. Much to Bob's surprise he finds that Emily also has a fear of flying and refuses to go. After a conversation with Howard she decides to go only to back out after boarding the plane.
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.