The Worst Episodes of The Bob Newhart Show

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.

Director: Peter Bonerz

Writer: N/A

Bob moves up in the world from the seventh to the tenth floor when he joins the firm of a swinging psychiatrist.

Director: N/A

Writer: Jay Tarses

Bob's friends close ranks to ""protect"" Emily Hartley when a handsome old flame pays her a very warm visit.

Director: Dick Martin

Writer: N/A

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

Howard insists on joining Bob and Emily's anniversary dinner at a fashionable Chicago restaurant in order to enlist their aid in popping the question to Ellen. But he chokes up in the clutch, and Bob is forced to do the proposing for him.

Director: Peter Bonerz

Writer: N/A

Jerry Robinson's depression turns to instant joy when a globe-trotting ex-flame suddenly re-enters his life and proposes.

Director: Alan Myerson

Writer: N/A

It's no laughing matter for Howard when his 12 year old son Howie announces he's leaving home to become a comedian.

Director: Dick Martin

Writer: David Lloyd

Bob and Emily have been trying for some time to have a child. When they attend a party where the conversation turns to the subject of children, they feel so left out that they decide to adopt a child.

Director: Jay Sandrich

Writer: Lorenzo Music

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.

Director: Peter Bonerz

Writer: N/A

A professional basketball team hires Bob to give a psychological assist to its superstar.

Director: Peter Bonerz

Writer: N/A

Bob develops a unique psychological problem when his receptionist, Carol, decides to resume her college career and become a psychologist.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: N/A

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

Director: James Burrows

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Michael Zinberg

Writer: N/A

Bob counsels a quintet of jovial ex-convicts to help them find honest employment.

Director: Michael Zinberg

Writer: N/A

Paul Billingham—known to his radio fans as Ralph Alfalfa, the Happy Farmer—comes to Bob because of his stuttering problem. On radio, he practiced several unseen rhythmic devices to mask his problem, but a new television opportunity threatens to expose his problem with disastrous results.

Director: Dick Martin

Writer: N/A

Bob's divorced neighbor, Howard Borden, is convinced that his son, Howie, doesn't really like him. Later, Howard's ex-wife convinces him that Howie thinks he is the greatest guy in the world.

Director: Alan Rafkin

Writer: Jay Tarses

Emily must contend with irate teachers, hamsters, and an escaped snake when she's unexpectedly upped to the position of school vice principal.

Director: Peter Bonerz

Writer: N/A

Bob becomes his patient's partner in a get-rich-quick real-estate venture.

Director: Eddie Ryder

Writer: Michael Zinberg

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

Director: Michael Zinberg

Writer: David Lloyd

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

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: N/A

Facing the depressing prospect of returning home to Iowa to spend the holidays with her domineering parents, Carol brings her troubles to Bob's apartment. There she spends Christmas Eve pouring out the disasters of her childhood.

Director: Alan Rafkin

Writer: Jay Tarses

Emily agrees to help operate a children's summer camp and tries to persuade Bob to be one of the counselors.

Director: James Burrows

Writer: Jerry Mayer

Bob and Emily invite Carol to share her ""heavy"" experiences with the ""overweight workshop.""

Director: N/A

Writer: Jay Tarses

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

Director: Alan Myerson

Writer: N/A