Episode

The Bob Newhart Show: My Business is Shrinking

Name: The Bob Newhart Show: My Business is Shrinking
Released: 1975-02-01
Cast: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Marcia Wallace, Peter Bonerz

The Bob Newhart ShowSeason 31975-02-01

Overview

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.

Details

Series: The Bob Newhart Show
Season: Season 3
Episode: Episode 20
Air date: 1975-02-01

Episode context

My Business is Shrinking is Episode 20 in Season 3 of The Bob Newhart Show. It aired on 1975-02-01.

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Episode 19: A Pound of Flesh 1975-01-25 Bob and Jerry have a falling-out when Jerry demands that Bob lend him money for a new motorcycle.

Episode 21: The New Look 1975-02-08 Emily redecorates the apartment in antiques. Bob finds her choice of furniture uncomfortable, unappealing, and hazardous to his health.

More episodes from this season

Episode 18: The Way We Weren't 1975-01-18 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.

Episode 22: Bob Hits the Ceiling 1975-02-15 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 17: Think Smartly--Vote Hartley 1975-01-11 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.

Episode 23: Emily Hits the Ceiling 1975-02-22 Emily agrees to help operate a children's summer camp and tries to persuade Bob to be one of the counselors.

Episode 16: Tobin's Back in Town 1975-01-04 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 24: The Ceiling Hits Bob 1975-03-08 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.

Episode 15: Home is Where the Hurt Is 1974-12-21 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 14: Serve for Daylight 1974-12-14 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 13: Jerry Robinson Crusoe 1974-12-07 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 12: We Love You... Good-Bye 1974-11-30 | 30 min 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.