Episode
The Bob Newhart Show: An American Family
Overview
Emily's plans for a wonderful turkey dinner go downhill when Bob's mother and Emily's father begin insulting one another the night before Thanksgiving.
Details
- Series
- The Bob Newhart Show
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 1974-11-23
Episode context
An American Family is Episode 11 in Season 3 of The Bob Newhart Show. It aired on 1974-11-23.
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Episode 10: Life is a Hamburger
Carol's announcement that she's going to marry Don Fesler—an unpublished poet with bad feet—brings negative reactions from her friends.
Episode 12: We Love You... Good-Bye
Bob forms an all-women consciousness-raising group. He gets kicked out after Emily joins and inadvertently points out some of the unliberated areas in their own marriage.
More episodes from this season
Episode 9: Ship of Shrinks
Bob's first literary venture turns out to be less than triumphant. His embarrassment makes him reluctant to join a convention of psychologists on a flight to Hawaii, especially when he finds out that Howard is the navigator.
Episode 13: Jerry Robinson Crusoe
After renewing an acquaintance with the beautiful and free-spirited Courtney Simpson, Jerry decides to give up his dental practice: he wants to follow his dreams of romance and adventure by taking Miss Simpson to Tahiti.
Episode 8: Brutally Yours, Bob Hartley
Having preached honesty in relationships to his patients, Bob decides to follow his own advice. Immediately he offends two dinner guests and starts an argument with Emily.
Episode 14: Serve for Daylight
Bob thinks his chances of winning a doctor's tennis tournament are pretty good until he learns that his doubles partner will be Emily.
Episode 7: Dr. Ryan's Express
Bob's office routine becomes a wreck when Jerry hires a temporary receptionist. She's a very nice but very vague woman who can't even get Bob's name straight.
Episode 15: Home is Where the Hurt Is
Facing the depressing prospect of returning home to Iowa to spend the holidays with her domineering parents, Carol brings her troubles to Bob's apartment. There she spends Christmas Eve pouring out the disasters of her childhood.
Episode 6: The Gray Flannel Shrink
Bob gives up most of his private practice to become the staff psychologist with a major insurance company. He soon learns that it's possible for a man in the corporate world to do his job too well.
Episode 16: Tobin's Back in Town
Ellen's ex-fiancee, John Tobin—a tall, handsome egomaniac in suede and leather—arrives in Chicago to win Ellen back. The situation plays havoc with Howard's basic insecurities.
Episode 5: Sorry, Wrong Mother
As Howard prepares to introduce Howie to Ellen, he tries to remold Ellen into an image the boy will like.
Episode 17: Think Smartly--Vote Hartley
Before he has a chance to say no, Bob finds himself running for the chairman of the local school board against an incumbent who hasn't attended a board meeting for six months.