Episode
The Bob Newhart Show: Fathers and Sons and Mothers
Overview
Bob suffers family problems when his mother becomes a houseguest and an elderly patient involves him in a parent-child vendetta.
Details
- Series
- The Bob Newhart Show
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1975-11-29
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Fathers and Sons and Mothers is Episode 12 in Season 4 of The Bob Newhart Show. It aired on 1975-11-29. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 11: Over the River and Through the Woods
It's a stag Thanksgiving for Bob when Emily flies off to join a family reunion, leaving Bob to share the holiday with his male buddies.
Episode 13: The Article
When she's given an assignment to see what makes a bunch of doctors tick, inquiring news reporter Ellen Hartley gives Bob and his medical cohorts the tell-it-like-it-is treatment.
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
Bob moves up in the world from the seventh to the tenth floor when he joins the firm of a swinging psychiatrist.
Episode 14: A Matter of Vice-Principal
Emily must contend with irate teachers, hamsters, and an escaped snake when she's unexpectedly upped to the position of school vice principal.
Episode 9: Who is Mr. X?
Bob accepts a seemingly innocent invitation to appear as the guest on a TV discussion program. He winds up in the jaws of a dilemma when the show host turns out to have the disposition of a shark.
Episode 15: Bob Has to Have His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas Eve in the Hospital
Christmas Eve finds Bob in the hospital with tonsillitis and an impending operation. Meanwhile, his friends are all suffering from an attack of Christmas-itis.
Episode 8: What's It All About, Albert?
Bob is depressed by his seeming lack of success as a psychologist. He seeks help from his old college professor, who manages to heighten his despair by informing him that psychology is all nonsense.
Episode 16: No Sale
Bob becomes his patient's partner in a get-rich-quick real-estate venture.
Episode 7: Shrinks Across the Sea
Bob and Emily suffer international complications when they host a French psychologist in their home as part of a medical exchange program.
Episode 17: Carol at 6:01
Bob contends with a patient's delusion that her bingo game is fixed, staggers through a series of wild poker parties, and watches in wonder as his secretary slowly smothers under an attack of love.
Episode 6: Carol's Wedding
A blind-date-initiated, 12-hour romance culminates in Carol Kester's civil marriage to a handsome travel agent.
Episode 18: Warden Gordon Borden
Howard's game-warden brother comes to Chicago to witness the mating of two whooping cranes—and stays to make a play for Howard's girlfriend.