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A Home is Not Necessarily a House
Original Air Date: 2/10/73 |
Season 1, Episode 20
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob and Emily try to decide if they should give up their apartment and buy a house.
A Love Story
Original Air Date: 2/9/74 |
Season 2, Episode 21
Date Added: 7/3/08
Howard falls head over heels in love with Bob's sister Ellen, and under most circumstances, Bob would find this perfectly acceptable - except that...
A Matter Of Principal
Original Air Date: 3/2/74 |
Season 2, Episode 24
Date Added: 7/3/08
It's a matter of principal versus principle when Emily refuses to skip one of her students ahead two grades at the insistent prodding of Mr. Brimskill...
A Pound of Flesh
Original Air Date: 1/25/75 |
Season 3, Episode 19
Date Added: 7/3/08
Jerry nearly destroys his friendships with both Bob and Howard when he tries to borrow money to buy a motorcycle.
An American Family
Original Air Date: 11/23/74 |
Season 3, Episode 11
Date Added: 7/3/08
The Hartley?s wonderful Thanksgiving with Bob?s parents gets derailed when Emily?s parents show up unannounced.
Anything Happen While I Was Gone?
Original Air Date: 11/25/72 |
Season 1, Episode 10
Date Added: 7/3/08
Jerry announces that he's getting married to a woman he met nine days earlier. The girl, Cynthia Fremont, is a beautiful oral hygienist.
Backlash
Original Air Date: 9/29/73 |
Season 2, Episode 3
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob and Emily's vacation to Mexico is cancelled by an accident. One of Bob's more masculine patients enthusiastically slaps him on the back and...
Big Brother is Watching
Original Air Date: 9/14/74 |
Season 3, Episode 1
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob has second thoughts after he gives his younger sister his blessing to move in with her new boyfriend?Howard Borden!
Blues For Mr. Borden
Original Air Date: 12/1/73 |
Season 2, Episode 12
Date Added: 7/3/08
Swinger Howard Borden suffers a bad case of blues when his young son tells him about his marvelous new "uncle" who seems to have taken up permanent...
Bob & Emily & Howard & Carol & Jerry
Original Air Date: 12/9/72 |
Season 1, Episode 12
Date Added: 7/3/08
Howard, influenced by drugs from having a tooth pulled, turns Carol on. Emily agrees to help Carol get Howard.
Bob Hits the Ceiling
Original Air Date: 2/15/75 |
Season 3, Episode 22
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob breaks his own long-standing rule when he agrees to counsel a friend of Emily?s who?s having martial problems.
Brutrally Yours, Bob Hartley
Original Air Date: 11/2/74 |
Season 3, Episode 8
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob decides to follow his own advice regarding honesty, which promptly gets him in trouble with two dinner guests and Emily.
Bum Voyage
Original Air Date: 3/3/73 |
Season 1, Episode 23
Date Added: 7/3/08
Afraid that his practice, as well as his patients, will fall apart if he leaves, Bob keeps resisting Emily's plans for a two-month European cruise....
By The Way... You're Fired
Original Air Date: 2/16/74 |
Season 2, Episode 22
Date Added: 7/3/08
When Carol's new love interest interferes with her work, Jerry Robinson doesn't seem too concerned, but when it disrupts his love life he decides to...
Clink Shrink
Original Air Date: 1/26/74 |
Season 2, Episode 19
Date Added: 7/3/08
Hoping to make a contribution to society, Bob offers his psychological counseling services free to a parolee out on an armed robbery conviction, but...
Come Live With Me
Original Air Date: 10/28/72 |
Season 1, Episode 6
Date Added: 7/3/08
Carol seeks Bob's approval of her moving in with her boyfriend Roger, who's just left his wife. Bob refuses, advising her to make up her own mind....
Confessions Of An Orthodontist
Original Air Date: 2/23/74 |
Season 2, Episode 23
Date Added: 7/3/08
While filling in for a fellow psychologist, Bob is surprised to find that his first patient is Jerry Robinson, who is reluctant to reveal his problem....
Don't Go to Bed Mad
Original Air Date: 11/11/72 |
Season 1, Episode 8
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob wants to watch Monday night football but Emily feels this unfair as they have too little time together and she hates football. This leads to an...
Dr. Ryan's Express
Original Air Date: 10/26/74 |
Season 3, Episode 7
Date Added: 7/3/08
Jerry hires an elderly temporary receptionist who can?t keep anything straight?not even Bob?s name!
Emily Hits the Ceiling
Original Air Date: 2/22/75 |
Season 3, Episode 23
Date Added: 7/3/08
Emily helps organize a children?s summer camp, then tries to persuade Bob to be one of the counselors.
Emily In For Carol
Original Air Date: 10/13/73 |
Season 2, Episode 5
Date Added: 7/3/08
With Carol on vacation, Emily is elected to fill in as the receptionist, an idea that everyone loves - except Bob. Alan Rafkin directed from a script...
Emily, I'm Home - Emily?
Original Air Date: 2/17/73 |
Season 1, Episode 21
Date Added: 7/3/08
A dubious Bob agrees to let Emily take a full-time job with the Board of Education, but soon regrets it when their home life begins to suffer. Soon it...
Father Knows Worst
Original Air Date: 11/4/72 |
Season 1, Episode 7
Date Added: 7/3/08
Howard brings his son Howie along for lunch with Bob and Jerry. Howard's convinced his son doesn't like him because he gets along so well with Jerry.
Fit, Fat And Forty-one
Original Air Date: 11/24/73 |
Season 2, Episode 11
Date Added: 7/3/08
Determined to lose eight pounds from around his middle, Bob goes on a strict diet and, with Jerry's help, joins a weight-reducing class that seems to...
Fly the Unfriendly Skies
Original Air Date: 9/16/72 |
Season 1, Episode 1
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob's "Fear of Flying" workshop gets a new member when Emily accepts his invitation to travel with the group by plane to New York. Emily admits that...
Goodnight, Nancy
Original Air Date: 10/21/72 |
Season 1, Episode 5
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob's college steady, Nancy, and her husband, Chuck, visit Bob and Emily.
Have You Met Miss Dietz
Original Air Date: 10/20/73 |
Season 2, Episode 6
Date Added: 7/3/08
Mariette Hartley guest stars as Marilyn Dietz, a very attractive divorcee who's enjoying her new-found freedom to such an extent that she creates a...
His Busiest Season
Original Air Date: 12/23/72 |
Season 1, Episode 14
Date Added: 7/3/08
Christmas is a sad time for Bob's patients, for Bob and Emily, too. Bob decides to have a "group" party. The party's a bomb. When the guests realize...
Home Is Where the Hurt Is
Original Air Date: 12/21/74 |
Season 3, Episode 15
Date Added: 7/25/08
Depressed about spending the holidays with her domineering parents, Carol passes Christmas Eve with Bob and Emily recounting all her childhood...
I Owe It All to You- But Not That Much
Original Air Date: 12/16/72 |
Season 1, Episode 13
Date Added: 7/3/08
Jerry decides there's something wrong with him becauase he never becomes interested or serious about any of the girls he dates, so he asks Bob to...
I Want to Be Alone
Original Air Date: 12/2/72 |
Season 1, Episode 11
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob decides for his mental well being, he needs some rest, so he moves into a hotel room. A confused Howard thinks Bob and Emily have split
I'm Dreaming Of A Slight Christmas
Original Air Date: 12/22/73 |
Season 2, Episode 15
Date Added: 7/3/08
Christmas Eve is almost spoiled when Bob is trapped in the office because of a power failure.
I'm Okay, You're Okay, So What's Wrong?
Original Air Date: 11/17/73 |
Season 2, Episode 10
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob turns out to be an uncooperative patient when Emily makes an appointment for them to see a marriage counselor about the boredom that is creeping...
Jerry Robinson Crusoe
Original Air Date: 12/7/74 |
Season 3, Episode 13
Date Added: 7/3/08
Jerry decides to give up his dental practice for a life of romance and adventure with his former girlfriend in Tahiti.
Let's Ge Away from It Almost
Original Air Date: 1/6/73 |
Season 1, Episode 15
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob and Emily decide to get away from it all. They end up vacationing at a ski lodge deserted except for an annoying couple with whom they share a...
Life is a Hamburger
Original Air Date: 11/16/74 |
Season 3, Episode 10
Date Added: 7/3/08
Carol announces that she?s going to marry her eccentric writer boyfriend despite the fact that everyone thinks he?s a little weird.
Mind Your Own Business
Original Air Date: 2/2/74 |
Season 2, Episode 20
Date Added: 7/3/08
At Jerry's urging Bob hires a business manager to handle his money and ends up living on a meager allowance that affords him such luxuries as peanut...
Mister Emily Hartley
Original Air Date: 11/3/73 |
Season 2, Episode 8
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob suffers an inferiority attack when a test reveals that Emily's IQ is higher than his. Jerry London directed from a script wirtten by Charlotte...
Mom, I L-L-Love you
Original Air Date: 10/7/72 |
Season 1, Episode 4
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob receives a telephone call from his mother. After hanging up he tells Emily how tough it is for him to communicate with his mother, especially...
Motel
Original Air Date: 9/22/73 |
Season 2, Episode 2
Date Added: 7/3/08
A trip to Peoria to see the television broadcast of a football game blacked out in Chicago turns into one long embarrassment for Bob when Jerry...
Mutiny On The Hartley
Original Air Date: 11/10/73 |
Season 2, Episode 9
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob's decision to meet the rising cost of living by raising his rates sets off a revolt among members of his therapy group when he picks the most...
My Business Is Shrinking
Original Air Date: 2/1/75 |
Season 3, Episode 20
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob is losing his confidence just as fast as he?s losing his patients, so he finally takes Emily?s advice and goes to see a psychologist.
My Wife Belongs To Daddy
Original Air Date: 12/8/73 |
Season 2, Episode 13
Date Added: 7/3/08
Ann Rutherford and John Randolph guest star as Emily's parents, whose surprise visit makes Bob terribly uncomfortable. Emily's father is gregarious,...
Not With My Sister You Don't
Original Air Date: 2/3/73 |
Season 1, Episode 19
Date Added: 7/3/08
Swinger Howard Borden suddenly turns into an overprotective big brother when his 22-year-old sister, Debbie, arrives to spend the week with him, and...
Oh, Brother
Original Air Date: 1/5/74 |
Season 2, Episode 16
Date Added: 7/3/08
Jerry Robinson's brother shows up in Chicago after finishing dental school and takes over Jerry's life, his apartment and his dental practice. Peter...
Old Man Rivers
Original Air Date: 10/27/73 |
Season 2, Episode 7
Date Added: 7/3/08
A rather embarrassing operation leads to a romance for Carol with her doctor, a relationship that everyone questions due to the disparity in their...
P-I-L-O-T
Original Air Date: 11/18/72 |
Season 1, Episode 9
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob and Emily have been trying to have a child. They attend a party where an expectant mother is chatting away and they feel so left out, they decide...
Serve for Daylight
Original Air Date: 12/14/74 |
Season 3, Episode 14
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob feels he has a good chance to win the annual Urology Research Mixed-Doubles Tennis Tournament?until he learns his partner is Emily.
Ship Of Shrinks
Original Air Date: 11/9/74 |
Season 3, Episode 9
Date Added: 7/25/08
Bob's embarrassment over his published essay makes him rethink his plans to attend a psychology convention in Hawaii.
Somebody Down Here Likes Me
Original Air Date: 10/6/73 |
Season 2, Episode 4
Date Added: 7/3/08
John McMartin, who starred on Broadway in "Follies" plays the Rev. Dan Bradford who, after seeking professional advice from Bob, makes an announcement...
Sorry, Wrong Mother
Original Air Date: 10/12/74 |
Season 3, Episode 5
Date Added: 7/3/08
Before Howard introduces Ellen to young Howie, he tries to mold her into the type of mother his son will like.
T.s. Elliot
Original Air Date: 12/15/73 |
Season 2, Episode 14
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob's patient Elliot Carlin parades out all of his phobias and insecurities as he prepares to ask Carol Kester for a date. He then finds it even...
Tennis, Emily?
Original Air Date: 9/30/72 |
Season 1, Episode 3
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob gets jealous when Emily's handsome new tennis instructor, Stan Connors, played by Peter Brown, comes to see him with a problem--his inability to...
The Battle of the Groups
Original Air Date: 9/21/74 |
Season 3, Episode 2
Date Added: 7/3/08
When Bob takes two of his therapy groups on a marathon session up at a mountain retreat, the groups? problems are the last thing that get discussed.
The Ceiling Hits Bob
Original Air Date: 3/8/75 |
Season 3, Episode 24
Date Added: 7/3/08
When the ceiling in his office collapses, Bob attempts to conduct his therapy sessions at home.
The Crash of 29 Years Old
Original Air Date: 1/13/73 |
Season 1, Episode 16
Date Added: 7/3/08
Feeling unfulfilled and just turning 29, Carol quits her job, a decision she reaches with Emily's help.
The Gray Flannel Shrink
Original Air Date: 10/19/74 |
Season 3, Episode 6
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob gives up most of his private practice to become the staff psychologist at Loggers Casualty Insurance Company?a move he soon regrets.
The Great Timpau Medical Arts Co-Op Experiment
Original Air Date: 9/28/74 |
Season 3, Episode 3
Date Added: 7/3/08
Jerry convinces all the doctors to form a co-op so they can treat each other for free?an idea that, unfortunately, doesn?t work out as planned.
The Jobless Corps
Original Air Date: 1/19/74 |
Season 2, Episode 18
Date Added: 7/3/08
Depressed and feeling useless after losing his job with the airline, Howard accepts Bob's offer to join his "out of work - shop", a special therapy...
The Last TV Show
Original Air Date: 9/15/73 |
Season 2, Episode 1
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob Hartley resists vehemently when his therapy group insists that he accept an invitation for the group to conduct one of its weekly sessions on...
The Man With The Golden Wrist
Original Air Date: 1/20/73 |
Season 1, Episode 17
Date Added: 7/3/08
Emily's pleasure is short-lived when Bob refuses to wear a watch she's bought him after he learns how expensive it is. Things are even worse at a...
The Modernization Of Emily
Original Air Date: 1/12/74 |
Season 2, Episode 17
Date Added: 7/3/08
Feeling that middle age is creeping up faster than she realized, Emily decides to update her image with a kicky new wardrobe that she says is youthful...
The New Look
Original Air Date: 2/8/75 |
Season 3, Episode 21
Date Added: 7/3/08
While Bob is away on a business trip, he gives Emily carte blanche to redecorate their apartment?unfortunately, he hates the results.
The Separation Story
Original Air Date: 10/5/74 |
Season 3, Episode 4
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob?s busy work schedule and Emily?s master?s degree studying cause the couple to decide that it would be a good idea to live apart.
The Two Loves of Dr. Hartley
Original Air Date: 1/27/73 |
Season 1, Episode 18
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob has successfully helped one of his patients, Mrs. Walker, overcome her emotional dependency on food, and the slimmed down housewife imagines she...
The Way We Weren't
Original Air Date: 1/18/75 |
Season 3, Episode 18
Date Added: 7/3/08
Emily is shocked to find out the reason Bob won?t talk about the girl he used to date before he started dating Emily.
Think Smartly - Vote Hartley
Original Air Date: 1/11/75 |
Season 3, Episode 17
Date Added: 7/3/08
Bob runs for chairman of the local school board against an incumbent that no one has seen at a board meeting for the last six months.
Tobin's Back in Town
Original Air Date: 1/4/75 |
Season 3, Episode 16
Date Added: 7/3/08
Howard?s insecurities suffer a beating when Ellen?s ex-fiancé, the handsome and debonair John Tobin, arrives in town to win Ellen back.
Tracy Grammar School
Original Air Date: 9/23/72 |
Season 1, Episode 2
Date Added: 7/3/08
It's vocation day in Emily's class and Bob feels left out when he's not invited. At the last minute, Emily asks him to fill in and her worst fears are...
We Love You? Goodbye
Original Air Date: 11/30/74 |
Season 3, Episode 12
Date Added: 7/25/08
Bob asks Emily to speak at his Women's Consciousness-Raising Group?a move which backfires unexpectedly.
Who's Been Sleeping On My Couch?
Original Air Date: 3/10/73 |
Season 1, Episode 24
Date Added: 7/3/08
Recovering from another broken romance, Jerry Robinson accepts Bob's invitation to spend a couple of days at this apartment, a kindness that Bob soon...
You Can't Win 'Em All
Original Air Date: 2/24/73 |
Season 1, Episode 22
Date Added: 7/3/08
When a star pitcher for the Chicago Cubs baseball team credits Bob with saving his career, the endorsement brings Bob a new patient, Moose Washburn, a...
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