
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 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.

Howard's game-warden brother (William Redfield) comes to Chicago to witness the mating of two whooping cranes and stays to make a play for Howard's girlfriend.

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

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