Episode
The Bob Newhart Show: Ship of Shrinks
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The Bob Newhart Show
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 1974-11-09
Episode context
Ship of Shrinks is Episode 9 in Season 3 of The Bob Newhart Show. It aired on 1974-11-09.
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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 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Carol's announcement that she's going to marry Don Fesler—an unpublished poet with bad feet—brings negative reactions from her friends.
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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 11: An American Family
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.
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 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 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 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 4: The Separation Story
For the sake of their marriage, as well as Emily's Master's Degree and Bob's heavy work schedule, the Hartleys decide that it would be best if they took up separate residences.
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 3: The Great Rimpau Medical Arts Co-Op Experiment
Dr Newman removed a wart from Bob's neck and charged him. Bob tells Jerry he should have done it for free since Bob had helped him with his marriage. Jerry agrees and sets up a plan where all the doctors treat each other for free.
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.