Episode 1
Enter Mrs. Peeper
1976-09-25
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.
TV season
1976-09-25
Episode 1
1976-09-25
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.
Episode 2
1976-10-02
The Hartleys miss their friend's gala Fourth of July Bicentennial party celebration when they become trapped in a storage locker.
Episode 3
1976-10-09
Bob's therapy group has an unexpected visitor when a friendly homosexual joins in the sessions.
Episode 4
1976-10-16
The Hartleys take a vacation. In their absence, Howard undergoes a crash psychological program that changes his entire personality.
Episode 5
1976-10-23
The Hartley apartment becomes a hot and cold battleground when the good doctor declares psychological warfare on his landlord.
Episode 6
1976-10-30
Both Bob's receptionist and a Buddha figure with a clock in its navel give the psychologist a hard time.
Episode 7
1976-11-06
Bob and his friends host an orphan contingent for a wildly improbable camping-out experience.
Episode 8
1976-11-13
Bob turns amateur detective when he believes that his expensive tape recorder has been stolen.
Episode 9
1976-11-20
Bob and his friend The Peeper take a trip down Memory Lane and wind up in the slammer.
Episode 10
1976-11-27
Bob defends the work ethic when Jerry comes into a pile of money and promptly retires from the dental profession.
Episode 11
1976-12-04
Jerry, retired orthodontist and orphan, takes off on a world tour to search for his long-lost parents.
Episode 12
1976-12-11
Bob undergoes a shock when his mother announces that she has separated from his father after 47 years of marriage.
Episode 13
1976-12-25
Bob takes on the role of Christmas peacemaker when he attempts to reconcile his parents.
Episode 14
1977-01-08
Bob watches in amazement as one of his patients supports a blossoming romance with a tissue of lies.
Episode 15
1977-01-15
Bob's invitation to lecture at a prestigious sex seminar results in distress when the audience shows up nude.
Episode 16
1977-01-22
Bob runs into marital problems when he brings his therapy group home for a wild role-playing encounter.
Episode 17
1977-01-29
Bob succumbs to the pressures of living in a big city and desperately seeks employment of a small rural college.
Episode 18
1977-02-05
Bob thinks that Veronica Kidd, a student trainee, has fallen in love with him.
Episode 19
1977-02-12
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.
Episode 20
1977-02-19
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.
Episode 21
1977-02-26
Bob is held hostage in his office by a friendly bank robber.
Episode 22
1977-03-05
A despondent friend accepts Bob's suggestion and turns the psychologist's reception area into a mini-Polynesian village.
Episode 23
1977-03-12
Bob offers sound psychological advice to his wife and his therapy group on how to handle anger. Then he proceeds to blow up himself.
Episode 24
1977-03-19
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.