Episode 1 - [Last Tv Show] |
Details : Bob's therapy group insists that he accept an invitation for the group to conduct one of its weekly sessions on television. |
Guest Cast and Crew : John Fiedler | Jack Riley | Florida Friebus | Director : Jay Sandrich | |
Air Date : Sep. 15, 1973 |
Episode 2 - [Motel] |
Details : A trip to Peoria turns into one long embarrassment for Bob when Jerry introduces him to a pretty girl named Janine. Janine doesn't seem to care that Bob is a married man. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Rick Hurst | Director : Jay Sandrich | Writer : Jay Tarses | |
Air Date : Sep. 22, 1973 |
Episode 3 - [Backlash] |
Details : One of Bob's more masculine patients enthusiastically slaps him on the back—and unfortunately for Bob it throws his back out. Even more unfortunately Bob and Emily were supposed to be going to Mexico for a vacation. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Michael Conrad | Director : George Tyne | |
Air Date : Sep. 29, 1973 |
Episode 4 - [Somebody Down Here Likes Me] |
Details : Rev. Dan Bradford seeks professional advice from Bob—then makes a startling announcement in his Sunday sermon. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Jack Riley | John McMartin | Director : Jerry London | Writer : Peter Meyerson | |
Air Date : Oct. 06, 1973 |
Episode 5 - [Emily In For Carol] |
Details : With Carol on vacation Emily is elected to fill in as the receptionist. Everyone loves the idea—except Bob. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Jack Riley | Larry Gelman | Howard Platt | Nora Marlowe | Director : Alan Rafkin | Writer : Jerry Mayer | |
Air Date : Oct. 13, 1973 |
Episode 6 - [Have You Met Miss Dietz] |
Details : Marilyn Dietz a very attractive divorcee creates a feud between Jerry and Howard when she starts dating both of them. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : George Tyne | |
Air Date : Oct. 20, 1973 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
Episode 7 - [Old Man Rivers] |
Details : A rather embarrassing operation leads to romance between Carol and her doctor. Everyone questions the relationship due to the new couple's age disparity. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Jeff Corey | Larry Gelman | |
Air Date : Oct. 27, 1973 |
Episode 8 - [Mister Emily Hartley] |
Details : Bob suffers an inferiority attack when a test reveals that Emily's IQ is higher than his. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Jay Tarses | Bill Quinn | Director : Jerry London | |
Air Date : Nov. 03, 1973 |
Episode 9 - [Mutiny On The Hartley] |
Details : Bob decides to meet the rising cost of living by raising his rates. But the members of his therapy group revolt when he picks the most inappropriate moment to tell them. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Henry Corden | John Fiedler | Jack Riley | Florida Friebus | Director : Peter Baldwin | Writer : Jay Tarses | |
Air Date : Nov. 10, 1973 |
Episode 10 - [I'm Okay You're Okay So What's Wrong] |
Details : Bob turns out to be an uncooperative patient when Emily makes an appointment for them to see a marriage counselor. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Katherine Helmond | Director : George Tyne | |
Air Date : Nov. 17, 1973 |
Episode 11 - [Fit Fat And Forty-One] |
Details : Determined to lose eight pounds from around his middle Bob goes on a strict diet. With Jerry's help he joins a weight-reducing class that seems to be populated mostly by women. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Lilyan Chauvin | Ron Glass | Robert Ridgely | Bruce Kirby | Director : Peter Baldwin | |
Air Date : Nov. 24, 1973 |
Episode 12 - [Blues For Mr Borden] |
Details : Howard's son Howie is visiting. Howard tells Bob he and his ex-wife Lois are getting along really well lately and he thinks she wants to get together again but Howard's upset to find out she's getting married and wants Howard's approval. |
Air Date : Dec. 01, 1973 |
Episode 13 - [My Wife Belongs To Daddy] |
Details : Emily's parents pay a surprise visit that makes Bob terribly uncomfortable. Emily's father is gregarious well-traveled a war hero an outdoors man—in short everything that Bob isn't. |
Guest Cast and Crew : John Randolph | Ann Rutherford | Dick Wilson | Byron Morrow | Director : Jerry London | Writer : Jerry Mayer | |
Air Date : Dec. 08, 1973 |
Episode 14 - [T S Elliot] |
Details : Bob's patient Elliot Carlin parades all his phobias and insecurities as he prepares to ask Carol Kester for a date. He then finds it even harder to accept her answer—which is yes. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Jack Riley | Shizuko Hoshi | Writer : Gerry Renert | Writer : Jeff Wilhelm | Director : Peter Baldwin | |
Air Date : Dec. 15, 1973 |
Episode 15 - [I'm Dreaming Of A Slight Christmas] |
Details : Christmas Eve is almost spoiled when Bob is trapped in the office because of a power failure. |
Guest Cast and Crew : John Fiedler | Larry Gelman | Director : Peter Baldwin | Writer : Jay Tarses | |
Air Date : Dec. 22, 1973 |
Episode 16 - [Oh Brother] |
Details : Jerry Robinson's brother shows up in Chicago after finishing dental school. He takes over Jerry's life his apartment and his dental practice. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Raúl Juliá | Director : Peter Baldwin | |
Air Date : Jan. 05, 1974 |
Episode 17 - [The Modernization Of Emily] |
Details : Emily decides to update her image with a kicky new wardrobe that she says is youthful and Bob says is childish. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Sharon Gless | Florida Friebus | Director : Peter Baldwin | |
Air Date : Jan. 12, 1974 |
Episode 18 - [The Jobless Corps] |
Details : Depressed after losing his job with the airline Howard accepts Bob's offer to join his out of workshop a special therapy group for the unemployed. (Bob extends the invitation at Emily's insistence when Howard's attempts to help her around the apartment begin driving her up the wall.) |
Guest Cast and Crew : Jack Riley | Howard Hesseman | Oliver Clark | Director : Peter Baldwin | Writer : Jay Tarses | |
Air Date : Jan. 19, 1974 |
Episode 19 - [Clink Shrink] |
Details : Hoping to make a contribution to society Bob offers his psychological counseling services free to a parolee out on an armed-robbery conviction. But Bob seems to be more influenced by his patient's manner than the patient is by Bob's therapy. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Henry Winkler | Russ Grieve | Director : Peter Bonerz | |
Air Date : Jan. 26, 1974 |
Episode 20 - [Mind Your Own Business] |
Details : At Jerry's urging Bob hires a business manager to handle his money. He ends up living on a meager allowance that affords him only such luxuries as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Ron Rifkin | Director : Alan Rafkin | Writer : Jay Tarses | |
Air Date : Feb. 02, 1974 |
Episode 21 - [A Love Story] |
Details : Howard falls head over heels in love with Bob's sister Ellen. Under most circumstances Bob would find this perfectly acceptable—except that Ellen is getting married to someone else. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Martha Scott | Director : Peter Bonerz | |
Air Date : Feb. 09, 1974 |
Episode 22 - [By The Way You're Fired] |
Details : When Carol's new love interest interferes with her work Jerry Robinson doesn't seemed too concerned. But when it disrupts his love life he decides to fire her. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Larry Gelman | Howard Platt | Dick Wilson | Director : Peter Baldwin | |
Air Date : Feb. 16, 1974 |
Episode 23 - [Confessions Of An Orthodontist] |
Details : 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. A little prodding produces the startling admission that Jerry is in love with Emily. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Roger Perry | Director : Peter Baldwin | Writer : Jay Tarses | |
Air Date : Feb. 23, 1974 |
Episode 24 - [A Matter Of Principal] |
Details : It's a matter of principal versus principle when Emily refuses to skip one of her students ahead two grades at the elementary school where she teaches. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Michael Conrad | Milton Selzer | Writer : Arnie Kogen | |
Air Date : Mar. 02, 1974 |