Episode

The Bob Newhart Show: I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas

Name: The Bob Newhart Show: I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas
Released: 1973-12-22
Cast: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Marcia Wallace, Peter Bonerz

The Bob Newhart ShowSeason 21973-12-22

Overview

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

Details

Series: The Bob Newhart Show
Season: Season 2
Episode: Episode 15
Air date: 1973-12-22

Episode context

I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas is Episode 15 in Season 2 of The Bob Newhart Show. It aired on 1973-12-22.

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Episode 14: T. S. Elliot 1973-12-15 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."

Episode 16: Oh, Brother 1974-01-05 | 30 min 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 13: My Wife Belongs to Daddy 1973-12-08 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.

Episode 17: The Modernization of Emily 1974-01-12 Emily decides to update her image with a kicky new wardrobe that she says is youthful and Bob says is childish.

Episode 12: Blues for Mr. Borden 1973-12-01 | 30 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.

Episode 18: The Jobless Corps 1974-01-19 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.)

Episode 11: Fit, Fat, and Forty-One 1973-11-24 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.

Episode 19: Clink Shrink 1974-01-26 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.

Episode 10: I'm Okay, You're Okay, So What's Wrong? 1973-11-17 | 30 min Bob turns out to be an uncooperative patient when Emily makes an appointment for them to see a marriage counselor.

Episode 20: Mind Your Own Business 1974-02-02 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.

Episode 9: Mutiny on the Hartley 1973-11-10 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.

Episode 21: A Love Story 1974-02-09 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.