Episode
The Bob Newhart Show: Duke of Dunk
Overview
A professional basketball team hires Bob to give a psychological assist to its superstar.
Details
- Series
- The Bob Newhart Show
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 1976-01-31
Episode context
Duke of Dunk is Episode 20 in Season 4 of The Bob Newhart Show. It aired on 1976-01-31.
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Episode 19: My Boy Guillermo
Jerry Robinson's depression turns to instant joy when a globe-trotting ex-flame suddenly re-enters his life and proposes.
Episode 21: Guaranteed Not to Shrink
Bob develops a unique psychological problem when his receptionist, Carol, decides to resume her college career and become a psychologist.
More episodes from this season
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.
Episode 22: Birth of a Salesman
The Hartleys are bombarded with legal hassles when Bob is sued by a shy patient and Emily decides to fight a parking ticket.
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 23: The Boy Next Door
The Hartleys entertain Howard Borden's young son and hire a beauty queen as his babysitter.
Episode 16: No Sale
Bob becomes his patient's partner in a get-rich-quick real-estate venture.
Episode 24: Peeper Two
Cliff Murdock, Bob's old laugh-a-minute college buddy, affectionately known as The Peeper, pays a return visit.
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 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 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.
Episode 12: Fathers and Sons and Mothers
Bob suffers family problems when his mother becomes a houseguest and an elderly patient involves him in a parent-child vendetta.