Newhart Season 7 : |
The seventh season of Newhart aired on CBS from October 24 1988 to May 22 1989. |
Episode 1 - [Town Without Pity] |
Details : Dick becomes the focus of the town's ire after a prisoner breaks out of jail using one of Dick's how-to manuals. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Rebecca Schull | Ken Jenkins | Writer : Dan O'Shannon | Director : David Steinberg | |
Air Date : Oct. 24, 1988 |
Episode 2 - [Apples Apples Apples] |
Details : Michael revs up the stale Ye Olde Apple Days festival leaving George and his traditional activites in the cold..until George organizes a rival festival. Larry and his brothers stage a walk-a-thon when swampland is endangered. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Peter Baldwin | Writer : Bob Bendetson | |
Air Date : Oct. 31, 1988 |
Episode 3 - [This Blood's For You] |
Details : Stephanie is horrified to discover that a blood transfusion following an emergency appendectomy came from Darryl. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Diana Bellamy | Director : Dick Martin | |
Air Date : Nov. 14, 1988 |
Episode 4 - [I Married Dick] |
Details : Dick and Joanna visit a therapist after Joanna becomes concerned that their marriage is stagnating. Stephanie is worried after discovering that Michael had large ears as a child. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Melanie Chartoff as Dr. Mary Kaiser | Jack Riley | Lela Ivey | Director : Lee Shallat Chemel | |
Air Date : Nov. 21, 1988 |
Episode 5 - [Goonstruck] |
Details : Stephanie is attracted to the virile young stomemason working at the Inn. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Jeff Yagher | Don Amendolia | Writer : Billy Van Zandt | Writer : Jane Milmore | Director : Michael Lessac | |
Air Date : Dec. 12, 1988 |
Episode 6 - [I Came I Saw I Sat] |
Details : Dick's father visits the inn and to Dick's consternation resists all Dick's efforts to entertain him. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Dirk Blocker | Bob Elliott | Hugh Gillin | Director : Dick Martin | |
Air Date : Dec. 19, 1988 |
Episode 7 - [Twelve Annoyed Men and Women] |
Details : Dick's patience is tried when he's elected foreman of a jury of the townspeople who as always use their peculiar intellect to irk Dick. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Tim Choate | Kathy Kinney as Miss Goddard | Director : Peter Baldwin | Writer : Bob Bendetson | |
Air Date : Jan. 09, 1989 |
Episode 8 - [Home For The Hollidays] |
Details : Joanna lands a job selling real estate. Her first sale hits a snag when her low-class clients the Hollidays stay at the inn while looking for a home. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Lela Ivey | |
Air Date : Jan. 16, 1989 |
Episode 9 - [Shoe Business Is My Life] |
Details : Michael goes job hunting after he's axed by WPIV. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Scott Menville | Cynthia Stevenson | Robert Rockwell | Bibi Osterwald | Writer : Dan O'Shannon | Director : David Steinberg | |
Air Date : Jan. 23, 1989 |
Episode 10 - [George And The Old Maid] |
Details : The Inn's old maid Madelyn Stone returns after a 25 year absence to answer George's marriage proposal. Stephanie competes with Madelyn. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Inga Swenson | Writer : Dan O'Shannon | Director : Dick Martin | |
Air Date : Feb. 06, 1989 |
Episode 11 - [Hi Society] |
Details : Dick fills in for Michael and takes Stephanie to a high society charity ball. Dick is the life of the party after Stephanie tells everyone that Dick owns a large hotel chain. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Leslie Jordan | Frances Fisher | Merv Griffin | Alex Hyde-White | Bonnie Burroughs | Writer : David Silverman | Writer : Stephen Sustarsic | Director : Michael Lessac | |
Air Date : Feb. 13, 1989 |
Episode 12 - [Cupcake On My Back] |
Details : Michael goes into debt after spending lavishly on Annual Cupcake Day. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Melanie Chartoff as Dr. Mary Kaiser | Ward Costello | Jo De Winter | Director : Michael Lessac | |
Air Date : Feb. 20, 1989 |
Episode 13 - [Another Saturday Night] |
Details : Michael And Joanna endure a torturous evening at Larry Darryl And Darryl's house. Dick gives a commencement speech at an exclusive school. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Claudette Sutherland | Director : Arlene Sanford | Writer : Bob Bendetson | |
Air Date : Feb. 27, 1989 |
Episode 14 - [The Nice Man Cometh] |
Details : Dick is picked to be the sidekick for a new late night talk show hosted by an abrasive man who has it in for Dick. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Ed McMahon | Don Rickles | Robert Rockwell | Writer : Billy Van Zandt | Writer : Jane Milmore | Director : Dick Martin | |
Air Date : Mar. 13, 1989 |
Episode 15 - [One And A Half Million Dollar Man] |
Details : Wealthy socialite Scooter Drake drops by Vermont looking to purchase an inn. While Joanna shows Scooter around Michael begins a new career as a mime. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Alex Hyde-White | Director : Peter Baldwin | Writer : Bob Bendetson | |
Air Date : Mar. 20, 1989 |
Episode 16 - [The Little Match Girl] |
Details : While visiting Michael in a sanitarium (he's vacationing) Dick runs into illustrator Corinne Denby and invites her to collaborate with him on his next book...despite her habit of burning things. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Eileen Brennan | Robert Picardo | Writer : Dan O'Shannon | Director : David Steinberg | |
Air Date : Mar. 27, 1989 |
Episode 17 - [Buy Buy Blues] |
Details : Stephanie goes on a shopping spree while she tries to forget Michael. Meanwhile Dr. Kaiser realizes she has developed an attraction for Michael (who's been released from the sanitarium). |
Guest Cast and Crew : Melanie Chartoff as Dr. Mary Kaiser | Director : David Steinberg | |
Air Date : Apr. 10, 1989 |
Episode 18 - [Message From Michael] |
Details : Michael becomes a last minute guest on Vermont Today and emerges a town favorite. The dimwitted locals hang on his every word. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Kathy Kinney as Miss Goddard | |
Air Date : Apr. 24, 1989 |
Episode 19 - [Homes And Jo-Jo] |
Details : Joanna gets her own realty television show providing a great lead-in for Vermont Today. Dick loves the big ratings but can't stand Joanna's amorous co-host. Meanwhile one of the Darryls' receives a manservant as a present. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Philip Sterling | Robert Curtis Brown | Director : Michael Lessac | Writer : Bob Bendetson | |
Air Date : May. 01, 1989 |
Episode 20 - [Georgie And Bess] |
Details : George's Aunt Bess visits shattering several of his childhood beliefs when he finds she wasn't the sweet lady he remembers. Dick and one of the Darryls play chess. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Jason Marin | Ann Morgan Guilbert | Writer : Dan O'Shannon | Director : Lee Shallat Chemel | |
Air Date : May. 08, 1989 |
Episode 21 - [Murder At The Stratley] |
Details : The townspeople accuse Dick or murdering Joanna after her disappearance strangely fits the scenario of his first murder-mystery novel Murder at the Stratley. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Alvy Moore | Kathy Kinney as Miss Goddard | Writer : Billy Van Zandt | Writer : Jane Milmore | Director : Michael Lessac | |
Air Date : May. 15, 1989 |
Episode 22 - [Malling In Love Again] |
Details : Michael and Stephanie conduct personal interviews at the mall and realize that they're perfect together after all. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Craig Bierko | Steven Culp | Johnny Carson | Jane Milmore | Writer : Bob Bendetson | Director : Dick Martin | |
Air Date : May. 22, 1989 |