Newhart Season 4 : |
The fourth season of Newhart aired on CBS from September 30 1985 to May 12 1986. |
Episode 1 - [Pirate Pete] |
Details : Dick fills in on a kiddie TV program for its ailing host Pirate Pete. Dick is appalled at Pete's commercialism and inadvertantly gets the programs cancelled. Dick tries his hardest to get Pete reinstated. Meanwhile George plays a practical joke on Stephanie adjusting her scale up two pounds. |
Guest Cast and Crew : David Wayne as Mr. Pittman | Linda Carlson as Bev Dutton | Director : Peter Baldwin | |
Air Date : Sep. 30, 1985 |
Episode 2 - [The Way We Ought To Be] |
Details : Michael and Steph break up when Michael realizes he's tired of Stephanie's demanding ways. Dick has difficulties with the WPIV staff when they're slow to direct his show. |
Guest Cast and Crew : James Staley as Patrick | Linda Carlson as Bev Dutton | |
Air Date : Oct. 07, 1985 |
Episode 3 - [Summa Cum Larry] |
Details : Dick covers for Larry when he enrolls in night school and doesn't want the Darryls to know he's improving himself. Joanna obsesses when a travel guide lowers the inn's rating. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Sandy Helberg | Director : Peter Baldwin | Writer : Arnie Kogen | |
Air Date : Oct. 21, 1985 |
Episode 4 - [Oh That Morocco] |
Details : A lonely Joanna becomes best friends with Stephanie who insists on a group vacation to lovely Morocco. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Rebeca Arthur | John Walter Davis | Director : Peter Baldwin | |
Air Date : Oct. 28, 1985 |
Episode 5 - [Candidate Larry] |
Details : Larry runs for Mayor. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Earl Boen | Thomas Hill | Blake Clark | Director : Dick Martin | |
Air Date : Nov. 04, 1985 |
Episode 6 - [Locks Stocks And Noodlehead] |
Details : Stephanie's father visits the inn with the news that he's left his wife. The town celebrates Colonial Days an authentic recreation of colonial times. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Priscilla Morrill as Marian Vanderkellen | José Ferrer as Arthur Vanderkellen | Director : Peter Baldwin | |
Air Date : Nov. 11, 1985 |
Episode 7 - [The Geezers In The Band] |
Details : When Dick's old college jazz band reunites at the inn he finds that expectations often excede reality. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Sorrell Booke | Kevin Scannell | Writer : David Mirkin | Director : David Mirkin | |
Air Date : Nov. 25, 1985 |
Episode 8 - [The Shape Of Things] |
Details : Stephanie and Joanna open an aerobics club. Problems present themselves when Stephanie appoints herself as the manager and relegates Joanna to custodial duties. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Dinah Lenney | Director : Peter Baldwin | |
Air Date : Dec. 02, 1985 |
Episode 9 - [Write To Privacy] |
Details : Joanna and Steph are furious with Michael after they peek at his diary and find out what he really thinks of them. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Susan Beavers | Director : Dick Martin | |
Air Date : Dec. 16, 1985 |
Episode 10 - [Still The Beavers] |
Details : Dick convinces George to quit the Beaver Lodge after the Beavers cheat George out of a prize rightfully his. George starts up a rival lodge to get back at the Beavers. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Robert Pastorelli | James T. Callahan | Parley Baer | Writer : Katherine Green | Director : Peter Baldwin | |
Air Date : Dec. 23, 1985 |
Episode 11 - [Much Ado About Mitch] |
Details : George joins a Big Brother program and is dismayed when his young protege Mitch is awestruck by Dick's fast paced lifestyle. Michael and Stephanie use a Oujia board. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Scott Curtis | Writer : Janet Leahy | Director : Dick Martin | |
Air Date : Jan. 06, 1986 |
Episode 12 - [Look Ma No Talent] |
Details : Michael begins shirking his duties and risks his job when he tries to find a talent to impress his mother. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Barry Dennen as Winston Bedell | Linda Carlson as Bev Dutton | Writer : Dan Wilcox | Director : Dan Wilcox | |
Air Date : Jan. 13, 1986 |
Episode 13 - [Larry's Dead Long Live Larry] |
Details : Larry dedicates his life to Dick when he believes Dick brought him back from the dead. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Lissa Levin | Director : John Pasquin | |
Air Date : Jan. 20, 1986 |
Episode 14 - [Stephanie Nightingale] |
Details : Stephanie must care for the hotel staff and guests when a measels epidemic sweeps the inn. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Peter Hobbs | |
Air Date : Jan. 27, 1986 |
Episode 15 - [The Stratford Horror Picture Show] |
Details : The Loudons are spooked when the ghost of Sarah Newton (episode #2) returns to haunt the inn. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Marilyn Schreffler | Bruce French | Director : John Pasquin | Writer : David Mirkin | |
Air Date : Feb. 03, 1986 |
Episode 16 - [I Do Okay] |
Details : Joanna and a decidedly unenthusiastic Dick decide to renew their wedding vows to celebrate their wedding anniversary. |
Air Date : Feb. 10, 1986 |
Episode 17 - [The Snowmen Cometh] |
Details : The town panics when it appears the annual Snow Carnival will be cancelled due to a lack of snow. Larry Darryl And Darryl request $2000 to make it snow. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Thomas Hill | Todd Susman | Director : John Pasquin | Writer : Arnie Kogen | |
Air Date : Feb. 17, 1986 |
Episode 18 - [Will The Real Dick Loudon Please Shut Up] |
Details : Dick is thrilled when a production company expresses interest in making 'How to be a Plumber' into a video. His elation quickly dissipates when the producers decide to recast 'Dick Loudon' because of Dick's shifty eyes and stammer. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Alan Autry | Carolyn Mignini | Philip Charles MacKenzie | Writer : Phoef Sutton | Director : Dick Martin | |
Air Date : Feb. 24, 1986 |
Episode 19 - [He Ain't Human He's My Cousin] |
Details : George meets his only living relative Cousin Eugene. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Derek McGrath | Director : John Pasquin | |
Air Date : Mar. 03, 1986 |
Episode 20 - [Dwight Schmidlapp Is Not A Quitter] |
Details : On a lark Dick submits his newest book to his publisher under the pseudonym he used when he first started writing Dwight Schmidlapp only to find it rejected. Dick sinks into a funk when he realizes he's 'coasting' in his writing career. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Larry Hankin | Keith Charles | Writer : Janet Leahy | Director : Dick Martin | |
Air Date : Mar. 10, 1986 |
Episode 21 - [Torn Between Three Brothers] |
Details : A jilted fiancee staying at the inn gets a job at the Minuteman cafe. She unwittingly encourages the affections of both Darryls but rejects them for the more vocal Larry. George organizes a citywide campaign when Michael pulls Barnaby Jones off the air in favor of The Secret Lives of Platinum Gold Dancers. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Teresa Ganzel | Todd Susman | Robert Krimmer | Writer : David Mirkin | |
Air Date : Mar. 17, 1986 |
Episode 22 - [Baby I'm Your Handyman] |
Details : George worries that a new girlfriend actress Loretta Dupris is only dating him to make use of his handyman skills. TV Producer J.J. buys a Victorian mansion and plans to bulldoze it to erect a space needle. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Fred Applegate | Marlyn Mason | Writer : Phoef Sutton | Director : Peter Baldwin | |
Air Date : Apr. 07, 1986 |
Episode 23 - [Replaceable You] |
Details : Secretary Alma amazes Dick which she fills in as producer. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Helen Page Camp as Alma Sproat | Linda Carlson as Bev Dutton | Gerald Hiken as Dimitri Alexandroff | |
Air Date : Apr. 14, 1986 |
Episode 24 - [Pre-Nups] |
Details : The Loudons George Steph and Michael are invited to Vanderkellen mansion for Arthur's birthday. Art insists Michael sign a pre-nuptial agreement that he refuses to do. Stephanie fears Michael's only dating her for her money. Dick worries when he breaks a music box given to Arthur by Winston Churchill. |
Guest Cast and Crew : David Sage as President of a Country | Priscilla Morrill as Marian Vanderkellen | José Ferrer as Arthur Vanderkellen | Director : Peter Baldwin | Writer : Arnie Kogen | |
Air Date : May. 12, 1986 |