Here's a complete broadcast of a first-run episode of The Bob Newhart Show, "You're Having My Hartley," as aired (with 5k telco audio, as was typical of the time) over the CBS network via WBBM Channel 2. (this aired immediately following the final episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, posted separately here: • CBS Network - The Mary... )
In this episode, Bob dreams that both Carol and Emily are pregnant.
(Note: This episode's script was originally written as the series finale. However, the episode was rewritten into a dream sequence once Bob Newhart decided to return for one more season and didn't want to play a father. Thus, it became only the Season 5 finale)
(Additional info: The rewriting of the plot point of this episode as a dream sequence, in the wake of Mr. Newhart's committing to a sixth season, proved to be a harbinger of the ultimate series finale of Bob's subsequent 1982-1990 show Newhart, where it is revealed that the entire Newhart series (where he played Vermont innkeeper Dick Loudon; also co-starring Mary Frann as his wife Joanna, Julia Duffy as Stephanie the maid, Tom Poston as handyman George Utley, and quirky characters like Larry, Darryl and Darryl) was a dream; after Dick is bonked in the head by an errant golf ball around the grounds of the Stratford Inn, he awakens as Dr. Robert Hartley back in Chicago, in bed with Suzanne Pleshette reprising her Bob Newhart Show role as his wife Emily.
However, Marcia Wallace's character, Carol, did turn out to be pregnant in this episode; alas, it would never be spoken of again.)
Guest stars were Tom Poston (who later joined Bob again on his 1980s "Newhart" show), Bobby Ramsen and Jean Palmerton.
Includes:
Note: The opening credits of the Bob Newhart Show broadcast have been "modified" to prevent KZfaq blocking. The rest of the broadcast has not been altered. Enjoy. - Fuzzy
Animated "Fire and Sparks" WBBM-TV / CBS station ID (voiceover by Ed Roberts)
Opening titles ("modified" to prevent KZfaq blocking)
Commercials for:
Coca-Cola - "Coke Adds Life" (people driving in old jalopy, having a drink of the product in question) [had to be REMOVED due to bogus Copyright claim from "Music Video Distributors" and their "Reach To Limits S7 E7"]
United Airlines (featuring Gordon Jump, pre-WKRP in Cincinnati - and long before his run as Maytag repairman - as airline passenger on trip to Hawaii) - Where "'o'oe ka haku", or "You're the boss"
Act I
Commercials for:
Johnson's Baby Lotion (one woman uses to shave her legs, another to wash her face) (no that's not Julia Louis-Dreyfus - unless she used to be a redhead with freckles)
Nabisco Spoon-Size Shredded Wheat (100% whole wheat - no sugar added)
Act II of episode
Promo for Bing! (celebrating Mr. Crosby's 50th anniversary in show business) for Sunday at 9pm (8pm Central) (sadly, Bing would pass away about 7 months later)
"The Bob Newhart Show" bumper
Commercials for:
Dial Very Dry anti-perspirant - "I don't use it." "Yeah, I know..."
Greyhound buses (with Pearl Bailey) - "$50 Anywhere in America" (good for 60 days or until June 15th, whichever comes first - on sale through May 15th)
Ending credits (with voiceover promo for "The Wizard of Oz" for Sunday and the sitcom "Busting Loose" for Monday by Pat Connell)
CBS Newsbreak with Sylvia Chase (prior to her move to ABC later in the year), and items:
- Bodies of 12 Vietnam War veterans being returned
- Investigation into Martin Luther King assassination by Rep. Gene Snyder (R-KY) focuses on police plots to kill Dr. King
- Attorney General Griffin Bell to go after price-fixers to full extent of law
- Navajo Indian coal miners want payments for treatments by medicine men
Brief commercial for Contac 12-hour cold medicine (voiceover by Lloyd Bridges)
Ending of Newsbreak
CBS "Eye" ID (Eye-D?) (voiceover by Pat Connell)
Commercial: Wrigley's Big Red Chewing Gum
"Silver Rotating in Space" WBBM Channel 2 animated station ID (voiceover by Jerry Harper)
Opening titles for All in the Family (just about done when recording cuts out)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, March 19th 1977 during the 7:30pm to 8:00pm timeframe.
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