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The Bob Newhart Show•Season 5•Episode 5

The Great Rent Strike

7.7/10 · 101 votesOct 23, 1976

Ranked #5 of 24 in Season 5•+0.4 vs season avg

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

Directed byJohn C. Chulay

Written byDavid Lloyd

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Seasons6

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Season 5 Episodes24

Enter Mrs. Peeper

Caged Fury

Some of My Best Friends Are...

Still Crazy After All These Years

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The Great Rent Strike

Et, Tu, Carol?

Send This Boy to Camp

A Crime Most Foul

The Slammer

Jerry's Retirement

Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson

Breaking Up is Hard to Do

Making Up is the Thing to Do

Love is the Blindest

The Ironwood Experience

Of Mice and Men

Halls of Hartley

The Heartbreak Kidd

Death Be My Destiny

Taxation Without Celebration

Desperate Sessions

The Mentor

Shrinking Violence

You're Having My Hartley

Cast5

Bob Newhart

Bob Newhart

Robert Hartley

Suzanne Pleshette

Suzanne Pleshette

Emily Hartley

Bill Daily

Bill Daily

Howard Borden

Marcia Wallace

Marcia Wallace

Carol Kester

Peter Bonerz

Peter Bonerz

Jerry Robinson

Crew2

David Lloyd

David Lloyd

Writer

J

John C. Chulay

Director

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Episode Summary

"The Great Rent Strike" is episode 5 of The Bob Newhart Show season 5. It scored 7.7/10 from 101 votes, ranking #5 of 24 episodes this season (season average 7.3). Directed by John C. Chulay and written by David Lloyd, it aired on October 23, 1976.

Next: E6 · Et, Tu, Carol?Best of Season 5