Episode
The Bob Newhart Show: The Way We Weren't
Overview
Emily is more than a little curious about Bob's reluctance to talk about a girl he used to date. Then Howard inadvertently spills the beans.
Details
- Series
- The Bob Newhart Show
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 18
- Air date
- 1975-01-18
Episode context
The Way We Weren't is Episode 18 in Season 3 of The Bob Newhart Show. It aired on 1975-01-18.
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Episode 19: A Pound of Flesh
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Episode 16: Tobin's Back in Town
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Episode 20: My Business is Shrinking
With his confidence fading as fast as his list of patients, Bob decides to follow Emily's advice and see a psychiatrist about his problem.
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 21: The New Look
Emily redecorates the apartment in antiques. Bob finds her choice of furniture uncomfortable, unappealing, and hazardous to his health.
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 22: Bob Hits the Ceiling
Bob breaks a long-standing rule against treating friends when he agrees to counsel Emily's chum, whose marriage to a muscular gym teacher seems to be breaking up.
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 23: Emily Hits the Ceiling
Emily agrees to help operate a children's summer camp and tries to persuade Bob to be one of the counselors.
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.
Episode 24: The Ceiling Hits Bob
Bob becomes the "oldest permanent psychologist in Chicago" when the ceiling in his office collapses and he has to set up shop wherever he can find the space.