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| Episode 1 - [The Longest Good-Bye] |
| Details : Bob's old school friend Murdock is in town for a day to sell a complex giveaway item to a Chicago cereal company. Bob invites him to stay overnight at his home. The brief encounter stretches out to a week when Murdock can't make his business connections. He gradually takes over Bob's car clothing and most of his home life. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jay Tarses | Director : James Burrows | |
| Air Date : Sep. 13, 1975 |
| Episode 2 - [Here's Looking At You Kid] |
| Details : Howard insists on joining Bob and Emily's anniversary dinner at a fashionable Chicago restaurant in order to enlist their aid in popping the question to Ellen. But he chokes up in the clutch and Bob is forced to do the proposing for him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Peter Bonerz | |
| Air Date : Sep. 20, 1975 |
| Episode 3 - [Death Of A Fruitman] |
| Details : Bob's patients observe tradition by planning a surprise party to honor the fourth year of the group's therapy sessions. When an unseen member a Mr. Gianelli threatens to turn the party into a disaster Bob kicks him out of the group. His decision meets with instant group approval until Mr. Gianelli dies under a ton of zucchini. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jay Tarses | Director : Peter Bonerz | |
| Air Date : Sep. 27, 1975 |
| Episode 4 - [Change Is Gonna Do Me Good] |
| Details : Emily accuses Bob of being stuck in a middle-aged rut and challenges him to switch family responsibilities. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : John Erman | |
| Air Date : Oct. 04, 1975 |
| Episode 5 - [The Heavyweights] |
| Details : Bob and Emily invite Carol to share her heavy experiences with the overweight workshop. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Marcia Lewis | Writer : Jay Tarses | |
| Air Date : Oct. 11, 1975 |
| Episode 6 - [Carol's Wedding] |
| Details : A blind-date-initiated 12-hour romance culminates in Carol Kester's civil marriage to a handsome travel agent. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Patrick Cranshaw | Howard Hesseman | Director : Michael Zinberg | |
| Air Date : Oct. 18, 1975 |
| Episode 7 - [Shrinks Across The Sea] |
| Details : Bob and Emily suffer international complications when they host a French psychologist in their home as part of a medical exchange program. |
| Air Date : Oct. 25, 1975 |
| Episode 8 - [What's It All About Albert] |
| Details : Bob is depressed by his seeming lack of success as a psychologist. He seeks help from his old college professor who manages to heighten his despair by informing him that psychology is all nonsense. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Michael Zinberg | |
| Air Date : Nov. 01, 1975 |
| Episode 9 - [Who Is Mr] |
| Details : Bob accepts a seemingly innocent invitation to appear as the guest on a TV discussion program. He winds up in the jaws of a dilemma when the show host turns out to have the disposition of a shark. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Peter Bonerz | |
| Air Date : Nov. 08, 1975 |
| Episode 10 - [Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time] |
| Details : Bob moves up in the world from the seventh to the tenth floor when he joins the firm of a swinging psychiatrist. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jay Tarses | |
| Air Date : Nov. 15, 1975 |
| Episode 11 - [Over The River And Through The Woods] |
| Details : It's a stag Thanksgiving for Bob when Emily flies off to join a family reunion leaving Bob to share the holiday with his male buddies. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : James Burrows | |
| Air Date : Nov. 22, 1975 |
| Episode 12 - [Fathers And Sons And Mothers] |
| Details : Bob suffers family problems when his mother becomes a houseguest and an elderly patient involves him in a parent-child vendetta. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : James Burrows | |
| Air Date : Nov. 29, 1975 |
| Episode 13 - [The Article] |
| Details : When she's given an assignment to see what makes a bunch of doctors tick inquiring news reporter Ellen Hartley gives Bob and his medical cohorts the tell-it-like-it-is treatment. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ellen Weston | Jack O'Leary as Plumber | Writer : Erik Tarloff | Director : Michael Zinberg | |
| Air Date : Dec. 06, 1975 |
| Episode 14 - [A Matter Of Vice-Principal] |
| Details : Emily must contend with irate teachers hamsters and an escaped snake when she's unexpectedly upped to the position of school vice principal. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Frances Lee McCain | Lawrence Pressman | Nora Marlowe | Director : Peter Bonerz | |
| Air Date : Dec. 13, 1975 |
| Episode 15 - [Bob Has To Have His Tonsils Out So He Spends Christmas Eve In The Hospital] |
| Details : Christmas Eve finds Bob in the hospital with tonsillitis and an impending operation. Meanwhile his friends are all suffering from an attack of Christmas-itis. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jay Tarses | Director : James Burrows | |
| Air Date : Dec. 20, 1975 |
| Episode 16 - [No Sale] |
| Details : Bob becomes his patient's partner in a get-rich-quick real-estate venture. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Eddie Ryder | Writer : Michael Zinberg | |
| Air Date : Jan. 03, 1976 |
| Episode 17 - [Carol At 601] |
| Details : Bob contends with a patient's delusion that her bingo game is fixed staggers through a series of wild poker parties and watches in wonder as his secretary slowly smothers under an attack of love. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Peter Bonerz | |
| Air Date : Jan. 10, 1976 |
| Episode 18 - [Warden Gordon Borden] |
| Details : Howard's game-warden brother comes to Chicago to witness the mating of two whooping cranes—and stays to make a play for Howard's girlfriend. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : James Burrows | |
| Air Date : Jan. 17, 1976 |
| Episode 19 - [My Boy Guillermo] |
| Details : Jerry Robinson's depression turns to instant joy when a globe-trotting ex-flame suddenly re-enters his life and proposes. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Matthew Charles Laborteaux | Director : Alan Myerson | |
| Air Date : Jan. 24, 1976 |
| Episode 20 - [Duke Of Dunk] |
| Details : A professional basketball team hires Bob to give a psychological assist to its superstar. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Peter Bonerz | |
| Air Date : Jan. 31, 1976 |
| Episode 21 - [Guaranteed Not To Shrink] |
| Details : Bob develops a unique psychological problem when his receptionist Carol decides to resume her college career and become a psychologist. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : James Burrows | |
| Air Date : Feb. 07, 1976 |
| Episode 22 - [Birth Of A Salesman] |
| Details : The Hartleys are bombarded with legal hassles when Bob is sued by a shy patient and Emily decides to fight a parking ticket. |
| Air Date : Feb. 14, 1976 |
| Episode 23 - [The Boy Next Door] |
| Details : The Hartleys entertain Howard Borden's young son and hire a beauty queen as his babysitter. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Amzie Strickland | Writer : Hugh Wilson | Director : Peter Bonerz | |
| Air Date : Feb. 21, 1976 |
| Episode 24 - [Peeper Two] |
| Details : Cliff Murdock Bob's old laugh-a-minute college buddy affectionately known as The Peeper pays a return visit. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jay Tarses | Director : Michael Zinberg | |
| Air Date : Feb. 28, 1976 |