Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Destroying Bob Newhart on television

There are a few episodes of both "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Newhart" in which things go awry on a TV talk show.  Bob (as Dick Louden) actually hosts a talk show on the latter series.  But my favorite is Bob (as Dr. Robert Hartley) trying to deal with a caustic host. My second favorite is from "Newhart," when Don Rickles guests plays an out-of-work actor who gets a talk show, and then gets Dick as his sidekick.  The final scene does not seem scripted, by the way (Newhart and Rickles are best friends in real life).




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