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| Newhart Season 1 : |
| The first season of Newhart aired on CBS from October 25 1982 to April 10 1983. |
| Episode 1 - [In The Beginning] |
| Details : Dick and Joanna Loudon purchase the Stratford Inn a remnant of colonial times in scenic Vermont. Their caretaker George Utley and his family have tended the inn for decades. Dick hires a maid Leslie and meets their next-door neighbor (and habitual liar) Kirk. The inn opens for business amid myriad start-up problems. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jack Dodson | Director : John Rich | Writer : Barry Kemp | |
| Air Date : Oct. 25, 1982 |
| Episode 2 - [Mrs Newton's Body Lies A'mould'ring In The Grave] |
| Details : Dick and Joanna learn that there's a body buried in the basement. The Loudons try to get the body moved to the church cemetery only to find that she was a witch. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Dan Frischman as Mortician | William Sanderson as Larry | Tony Papenfuss as First Darryl | Bill Quinn as Minister | John Voldstad as Second Darryl | Writer : Katherine Green | Director : Will Mackenzie | |
| Air Date : Nov. 01, 1982 |
| Episode 3 - [Hail To The Councilman] |
| Details : Dick gets his hopes up after two city officials suggest he run for town council. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Thomas Hill | Director : Will Mackenzie | |
| Air Date : Nov. 08, 1982 |
| Episode 4 - [Shall We Gather At The River] |
| Details : Joanna falls through the ice at the annual River Day festival. Dick is on the outs when Joanna blames him for everything bad that happens in her life. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Will Mackenzie | |
| Air Date : Nov. 15, 1982 |
| Episode 5 - [This Probably Is Condemned] |
| Details : Dick and the gang pitch in to help Kirk get the Minuteman up to code after its shut down. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Dick Christie | Roy London | Director : Will Mackenzie | |
| Air Date : Nov. 22, 1982 |
| Episode 6 - [No Tigers At The Circus] |
| Details : Dick spirals into a profound depression after the Stratford is denied in its bid to be classified an historic landmark. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Barbara Tarbuck | Director : Will Mackenzie | |
| Air Date : Nov. 29, 1982 |
| Episode 7 - [The Perfect Match] |
| Details : Leslie's high school sweetheart returns from far off places to ask for her hand in marriage to Kirk's obvious displeasure. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Howard McGillin | Writer : Stuart Silverman | Director : Dick Martin | |
| Air Date : Dec. 06, 1982 |
| Episode 8 - [Some Are Born Writers others Have Writers Thrust Upon Them] |
| Details : Dick praises an aspiring writer's work to avoid hurting her feelings. The writer's enthusiastic husband quits his job to allow his wife to write full time. It's up to Dick to secure her an agent and teach her to write all before their savings runs out in a month and a half. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Earl Boen | Director : Will Mackenzie | |
| Air Date : Dec. 13, 1982 |
| Episode 9 - [No Room At The Inn] |
| Details : The inn is swamped when 24 guests are snowed in on Christmas Eve. While Kirk tries to keep the guests entertained Dick tries to find room for a traveller named Joseph and his pregnant wife. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Bob Perlow | Writer : Barry Kemp | Director : Dick Martin | |
| Air Date : Dec. 20, 1982 |
| Episode 10 - [The Senator's Wife Was Indiscreet] |
| Details : A U.S. Senator's wife checks into the inn and holds a press conference to announce she's divorcing her inattentive husband. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Penny Fuller | Director : Dick Martin | |
| Air Date : Dec. 27, 1982 |
| Episode 11 - [Sprained Dreams] |
| Details : Dick jeopardizes Leslie's lifelong dream of becoming a world-class skier when he accidentally falls on her. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Dan Gilvezan | Director : Will Mackenzie | |
| Air Date : Jan. 03, 1983 |
| Episode 12 - [The Way We Thought We Were] |
| Details : George's old flame visits the inn. Both are disappointed when the other isn't as they remember. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Rue McClanahan | Director : Will Mackenzie | |
| Air Date : Jan. 10, 1983 |
| Episode 13 - [The Visitors] |
| Details : Dick and Joanna cant wait for their 'fun' friends to visit but soon become perturbed after their friends treat the Loudons not as friends but innkeepers. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Dana Elcar | K Callan | Nancy Lenehan | Director : Michael Zinberg | |
| Air Date : Jan. 17, 1983 |
| Episode 14 - [What Is This Thing Called Lust] |
| Details : Leslie's attractive cousin Stephanie visits Vermont to settle her emotions as she nears her wedding day. Stephanie soon finds herself lusting after Kirk. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Julia Duffy as Stephanie Vanderkellen | Director : Will Mackenzie | |
| Air Date : Jan. 31, 1983 |
| Episode 15 - [Breakfast Theater] |
| Details : Washed-up comic Manny Silver visits the Stratford reminding Dick of the 'debt' he owes Manny for starting his writing career. Manny shames Dick into letting him perform in the inn over Joanna's strenuous objections. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Will Mackenzie | |
| Air Date : Feb. 07, 1983 |
| Episode 16 - [Ricky Nelson Up Your Nose] |
| Details : Kirk goes into the hospital for surgery to remove a foreign object from his nose leaving Larry Darryl and a very svelte Darryl in charge of the cafe. Dick and Joanna about to go to New York for a writer's conference have to bail out the boys when an unexpected crowd turns up at the cafe. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Robert Pastorelli | Tom Everett | William Lucking | Director : Will Mackenzie | |
| Air Date : Feb. 14, 1983 |
| Episode 17 - [A View From The Bench] |
| Details : Dick Kirk and George go to Boston to use their bench passes for a Celtics game. Dick loses his pass. Meanwhile Leslie and Joanna wait at the inn for incoming guest Daniel J. Travanti. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ernie Sabella | Julius Carry | Wolfe Perry | Daniel J. Travanti | Jimmy Baron | Marie Denn | Director : Will Mackenzie | |
| Air Date : Feb. 21, 1983 |
| Episode 18 - [The Boy Who Cried Goat] |
| Details : When Kirk's cafe is robbed his history of deception comes back to haunt him as the insurance investigator refuses to believe his story. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Brandon Maggart | Joe Colligan | Writer : Barbara Hall | Director : Will Mackenzie | |
| Air Date : Mar. 13, 1983 |
| Episode 19 - [Heaven Knows Mr Utley] |
| Details : George is the town laughingstock when he claims to have spied an UFO. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Hansford Rowe | Director : Will Mackenzie | |
| Air Date : Mar. 20, 1983 |
| Episode 20 - [You're Homebody 'til Somebody Loves You] |
| Details : Dick inadvertently insults Joanna calling her a homebody. Joanna takes a job with a travel agency in an attempt to assert herself. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jerry Van Dyke | Director : Will Mackenzie | |
| Air Date : Mar. 27, 1983 |
| Episode 21 - [Grandma What A Big Mouth You Have] |
| Details : Kirk's grandmother visits on the same night he finally gets a date with Leslie. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Martin Ferrero | Ruth Gordon as Blanche Devane | Director : Will Mackenzie | |
| Air Date : Apr. 03, 1983 |
| Episode 22 - [I Enjoy Being A Guy] |
| Details : Dick loves being 'just one of the guys' when Chester and Jim invite him to join their golf foursome. Dick is distressed to find that their gambling habit and lousy golfing abilities make him the big winner. Dick tries to figure out a way to give the money back without breaking 'the guy code'. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Richard Venture | Thomas Hill | Director : Will Mackenzie | Writer : Gene Braunstein | Writer : Bob Perlow | |
| Air Date : Apr. 10, 1983 |