
Not to be confused with Newhart's eponymous 1961 variety show, "The Bob Newhart Show" finds the comic playing Bob Hartley, a Chicago psychologist living with wife Emily in a highrise. Bob is forced to deal with crazy patients, his wife and their friends.

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

The Hartleys are bombarded with legal hassles when Bob is sued by a shy patient and Emily decides to fight a parking ticket.

When the Hartleys entertain Howard's son, they hire a beauty queen (Brooke Adams) as a babysitter.

Cliff Murdock (Tom Poston), Bob's old laugh-a-minute college buddy, affectionately known as "The Peeper," pays a return visit. An uncharacteristically somber Cliff announces that his wife has left him.