Episode
The Bob Newhart Show: Shrinking Violence
Overview
Bob offers sound psychological advice to his wife and his therapy group on how to handle anger. Then he proceeds to blow up himself.
Details
- Series
- The Bob Newhart Show
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 1977-03-12
Episode context
Shrinking Violence is Episode 23 in Season 5 of The Bob Newhart Show. It aired on 1977-03-12.
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Episode 22: The Mentor
A despondent friend accepts Bob's suggestion and turns the psychologist's reception area into a mini-Polynesian village.
Episode 24: You're Having My Hartley
Hot baby news is the order of the day when Carol, Bob's receptionist, announces that she's expecting a baby. Then, Emily drops her bombshell—and Bob nearly comes unglued at the prospect of becoming a father.
More episodes from this season
Episode 21: Desperate Sessions
Bob is held hostage in his office by a friendly bank robber.
Episode 20: Taxation Without Celebration
Bob's memory is taxed to the limit when he forgets that April 15 is the Federal income tax deadline—and also the date of the Hartleys' seventh wedding anniversary.
Episode 19: Death Be My Destiny
Bob strikes out against a friend's fear of falling, but succumbs to the same phobia himself when he is subjected to a harrowing elevator experience.
Episode 18: The Heartbreak Kidd
Bob thinks that Veronica Kidd, a student trainee, has fallen in love with him.
Episode 17: Halls of Hartley
Bob succumbs to the pressures of living in a big city and desperately seeks employment of a small rural college.
Episode 16: Of Mice and Men
Bob runs into marital problems when he brings his therapy group home for a wild role-playing encounter.
Episode 15: The Ironwood Experience
Bob's invitation to lecture at a prestigious sex seminar results in distress when the audience shows up nude.
Episode 14: Love is the Blindest
Bob watches in amazement as one of his patients supports a blossoming romance with a tissue of lies.
Episode 13: Making Up is the Thing to Do
Bob takes on the role of Christmas peacemaker when he attempts to reconcile his parents.
Episode 12: Breaking Up is Hard to Do
Bob undergoes a shock when his mother announces that she has separated from his father after 47 years of marriage.