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The Best Episodes of The Bob Newhart Show Season 5

Every episode of The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Bob Newhart Show Season 5!

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The Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978. Comedian Bob Newhart portrays a psychologist having

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 19 - Death Be My Destiny
    8.2/10(132 votes)

    S5:E19

    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.

    Director:Michael Zinberg
    Writer:Sy Rosen

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  2. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 2 - Caged Fury
    7.9/10(126 votes)

    S5:E2

    The Hartleys miss their friend's gala Fourth of July Bicentennial party celebration when they become trapped in a storage locker.

    Director:Michael Zinberg
    Writers:Gordon Farr, Lynne Farr

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  3. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 21 - Desperate Sessions
    7.9/10(117 votes)

    S5:E21

    Bob is held hostage in his office by a friendly bank robber.

    Director:Dick Martin
    Writers:Michael Zinberg, Michael Davidson

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  4. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 4 - Still Crazy After All These Years
    7.7/10(109 votes)

    S5:E4

    The Hartleys take a vacation. In their absence, Howard undergoes a crash psychological program that changes his entire personality.

    Director:Alan Myerson
    Writer:Hugh Wilson

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  5. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 5 - The Great Rent Strike
    7.7/10(101 votes)

    S5:E5

    The Hartley apartment becomes a hot and cold battleground when the good doctor declares psychological warfare on his landlord.

    Director:John C. Chulay
    Writer:David Lloyd

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  6. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 8 - A Crime Most Foul
    7.5/10(112 votes)

    S5:E8

    Bob turns amateur detective when he believes that his expensive tape recorder has been stolen.

    Director:John C. Chulay
    Writer:Sy Rosen

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  7. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 13 - Making Up is the Thing to Do
    7.5/10(107 votes)

    S5:E13

    Bob takes on the role of Christmas peacemaker when he attempts to reconcile his parents.

    Director:Harvey Medlinsky
    Writers:Gordon Farr, Lynne Farr

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  8. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 15 - The Ironwood Experience
    7.5/10(99 votes)

    S5:E15

    Bob's invitation to lecture at a prestigious sex seminar results in distress when the audience shows up nude.

    Director:Peter Bonerz
    Writer:Phil Davis

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  9. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 18 - The Heartbreak Kidd
    7.5/10(109 votes)

    S5:E18

    Bob thinks that Veronica Kidd, a student trainee, has fallen in love with him.

    Director:Dick Martin
    Writer:Sy Rosen

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  10. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 24 - You're Having My Hartley
    7.5/10(118 votes)

    S5:E24

    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.

    Director:Peter Bonerz
    Writers:Gordon Farr, Lynne Farr

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  11. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 9 - The Slammer
    7.4/10(106 votes)

    S5:E9

    Bob and his friend The Peeper take a trip down Memory Lane and wind up in the slammer.

    Director:Michael Zinberg
    Writers:Gordon Farr, Lynne Farr

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  12. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 16 - Of Mice and Men
    7.4/10(99 votes)

    S5:E16

    Bob runs into marital problems when he brings his therapy group home for a wild role-playing encounter.

    Director:Peter Bonerz
    Writer:Bruce Kane

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  13. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 14 - Love is the Blindest
    7.3/10(101 votes)

    S5:E14

    Bob watches in amazement as one of his patients supports a blossoming romance with a tissue of lies.

    Director:Will Mackenzie
    Writer:Gary David Goldberg

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  14. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 1 - Enter Mrs. Peeper
    7.2/10(110 votes)

    S5:E1

    Bob receives a telegram saying that his old college chum, The Peeper, is coming to Chicago and bringing a surprise. The surprise turns out to be a brand-new bride.

    Director:Michael Zinberg
    Writers:Gordon Farr, Lynne Farr

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  15. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 12 - Breaking Up is Hard to Do
    7.2/10(94 votes)

    S5:E12

    Bob undergoes a shock when his mother announces that she has separated from his father after 47 years of marriage.

    Director:Peter Bonerz
    Writer:Sy Rosen

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  16. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 20 - Taxation Without Celebration
    7.2/10(103 votes)

    S5:E20

    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.

    Director:Peter Bonerz
    Writer:Sy Rosen

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  17. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 3 - Some of My Best Friends Are...
    7.1/10(125 votes)

    S5:E3

    Bob's therapy group has an unexpected visitor when a friendly homosexual joins in the sessions.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writers:Patricia Jones, Donald Reiker

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  18. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 6 - Et, Tu, Carol?
    7.0/10(104 votes)

    S5:E6

    Both Bob's receptionist and a Buddha figure with a clock in its navel give the psychologist a hard time.

    Director:Alan Myerson
    Writer:Gary David Goldberg

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  19. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 7 - Send This Boy to Camp
    7.0/10(97 votes)

    S5:E7

    Bob and his friends host an orphan contingent for a wildly improbable camping-out experience.

    Director:Michael Zinberg
    Writer:David Lloyd

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  20. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 11 - Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson
    7.0/10(100 votes)

    S5:E11

    Jerry, retired orthodontist and orphan, takes off on a world tour to search for his long-lost parents.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writers:Gordon Farr, Lynne Farr

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  21. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 17 - Halls of Hartley
    7.0/10(101 votes)

    S5:E17

    Bob succumbs to the pressures of living in a big city and desperately seeks employment of a small rural college.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Michael Zinberg

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  22. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 23 - Shrinking Violence
    7.0/10(107 votes)

    S5:E23

    Bob offers sound psychological advice to his wife and his therapy group on how to handle anger. Then he proceeds to blow up himself.

    Director:Peter Bonerz
    Writer:Sy Rosen

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  23. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 22 - The Mentor
    6.9/10(104 votes)

    S5:E22

    A despondent friend accepts Bob's suggestion and turns the psychologist's reception area into a mini-Polynesian village.

    Director:Michael Zinberg
    Writer:Gary David Goldberg

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  24. The Bob Newhart Show Season 5 Episode 10 - Jerry's Retirement
    6.6/10(115 votes)

    S5:E10

    Bob defends the work ethic when Jerry comes into a pile of money and promptly retires from the dental profession.

    Director:Alan Myerson
    Writer:Hugh Wilson

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Death Be My Destiny" is the best rated episode of "The Bob Newhart Show" season 5. It scored 8.2/10 based on 132 votes. Directed by Michael Zinberg and written by Sy Rosen, it aired on 2/12/1977. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Caged Fury".