Episode
The Bob Newhart Show: Group on a Hot Tin Roof
Overview
Bob advises a patient named Mr. Plager to realize his human potential by writing a play based on his own experiences. But when Plager writes, directs, and produces an actual World War I drama whose characters bear a startling resemblance to the rest of Bob's patients, the warfare really begins.
Details
- Series
- The Bob Newhart Show
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1978-01-28
Episode context
Group on a Hot Tin Roof is Episode 16 in Season 6 of The Bob Newhart Show. It aired on 1978-01-28.
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Episode 13: Freudian Ship
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Episode 19: It Didn't Happen One Night
Bob's friends close ranks to "protect" Emily Hartley when a handsome old flame pays her a very warm visit.
Episode 12: 'Twas the Pie Before Christmas
Bob finds himself with unhappy and hostile patients who refuse to attend his Christmas party when they are mistakenly informed of a rate increase at the height of the Yuletide season. One patient is moved to hire a pie-throwing service.
Episode 20: Carol Ankles for Indie-Prod
On the eve of being announced "Secretary of the Year," Carol informs Bob that she's leaving his employ.
Episode 11: Grand Delusion
Bob and Emily celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary with a dream flight into the fantasy of being married to different partners.
Episode 21: Crisis in Education
At the school where Emily works, low reading scores prompt indignant outbursts and threats from angry parents. Principal Phil Bannister flees their wrath by going on an extended fishing trip—but not before he tells Emily to handle the crisis.
Episode 10: A Girl in Her Twenties
Emily's protective instincts are aroused when 70-year-old Grace DuBois, an odd but friendly recluse, is threatened with being sent to a rest home for elderly people who can't cope with reality.
Episode 22: Happy Trails to You
Bob gives up his psychological practice in Chicago to become a professor at a small college in Oregon.