Bob Newhart actually did another series after “Bob”. In the 1997-1998 season, he starred in “George & Leo” on CBS and it lasted even fewer episodes than “Bob” did. It co-starred Judd Hirsch and Jason Bateman and only ran for 22 episodes.

I remember "My World and Welcome to It"! My parents had raised me right, and I knew who Thurber was at the time the show ran. I remember liking it, though I don't remember much about it anymore.

Very informative. Jere Burns was great on Dear John, too.

I remember that show my world and welcome to it .my mother loved it. She was upset when was canceled.

The show "My World and Welcome to It" won Emmys for best comedy and best actor in a comedy, but only lasted one season.

Yes, I remember My World and Welcome to It. I liked it for the stories and the originality of mixing drawings with live action. I wondered it was cancelled outside the usual low ratings. An explanation would be nice.

I watched The Bob show. I don't remember much about it. I also thought Judd Hirsch was brought on to the Bob show. People here in comments are reminding me that, that was a completely different show. I'd forgotten that!

I did watch both seasons of Bob back when it was on. I was interested because it took place in the world of comics, and I was collecting back then. I even bought the tie-in Mad Dog comics, which were split into two parts, one with Bob's original vision for the character, and one with Harlan's gritty re-boot vision. I kind of wish they had been able to make the first season setting work, I thought it had potential.

I remember "My World and Welcome Too It" and also enjoyed the mix of live and animation.

I loved that second season of 'Bob'. I also loved the show 'George and Leo'. Honestly CBS didn't keep shows around much back then unless they were immediate hits. With established performers like Bob Newhart and Mary Tyler Moore, the network should have backed their later efforts instead of dropping them so fast. Of course ABC did the same with Lucille Ball.

The problem with Bob the series was the fact they tried to change Newhart's character, and that failed miserably. The show had a strange running gag of Bob always losing his temper, but they always hid the outburst using various tricks because everyone knew Newhart couldn't pull it off. So, I guess that's the joke? Oh, and you are correct: the character of Harlan Stone was an absolute arse, and his departure was the best thing about the second season. Aside from Newhart, the best thing about the show was Cynthia Stevenson, who I first saw on this wonderful spoof on talk shows, "My Talk Show." Which I still maintain should have lasted a lot longer. She almost looked like she could have been Bob's daughter - always underplaying, but always showing there's a lot more behind the mask. Then they changed the entire series, totally removed what was interesting about the show, but brought in Betty White. And that last is never a bad thing. Shame working in a greeting card factory wasn't that entertaining, IMO. But the second version actually still had a comic book connection: Eric Allan Kramer was a regular, and he once played Thor in The Incredible Hulk Returns. I want My World and Welcome To It to be released on home video. What's taking so long?!!

Actually, Bob Newhart did a fourth series, really it was the first because it was in the early 60s. I’d like to see you do a video about that.

I remember the first iteration of "Bob" and like you, I didn't think the show worked all that well. But then about half to two-thirds the way through the season I saw it click. It took a little time, but it was starting to gel when it got taken off the air. I only saw the first episode of the second iteration, so I can't say anything about that. But as mentioned by at least one other commenter, Bob's original show back in 1961 lasted only one season, but it won an Emmy for Best Comedy. The only best comedy Emmy any show starring Bob Newhart ever got. What made it work so well was something that wasn't Newhart's forte, sketch comedy. His own irreverence combined with his lackluster attempt to play different characters which were just him was hilarious. But the ratings were not great and the producers of the show didn't like Bob, so it got cancelled.

Cool video. For me, the emergence of constant anger and putdowns in characters ruined TV.

I remember the "My World" show, barely. I had recently started high school in the fall of 1969. My freshman year English class was- English Literature. The teacher was very high on that show and praised William Windom, and very much suggested that we her students, should all watch it. I gave it a slight try but after an episode or two couldn't take it anymore. I much better remember 1992's "Bob" and tried very much to get into it. Didn't fully love it, however.

I LOVED Windom's brief sitcom. I have no memory of Newhart's third. But, then again, I never watched his second.

I love Newhart and Bob Newhart but I never heard of the show bob

As Bob got older, his sitcom wives got successively younger. In The Bob Newhart Show (1972), Suzanne Pleshette (born 1937) was eight years younger. In Newhart (1982), Mary Frann (born 1943) was fourteen years younger. And in Bob (1992), Carlene Watkins (born 1952) was twenty-three years younger.

I remember kind of liking BOB except for one problem-- it was the 90s and I was fed up with shows with an all Euro American cast! NO so called "minority" comic creators?! Baloney! I see they corrected that in the second season-- which I didn't know about!

I am a diehard Bob Newhart fan. I even attended a taping of a first season episode in Hollywood. I tried to watch this, I really did. I actually preferred the first season over the second and I drifted away sometime in the second season.

In the last episode of Hot in Cleveland, Betty White's character married Bob Newhart.

I do remember my world and welcome to it . I was a kid so don't remember it real well

It's too bad CBS wouldn't give this show as much time to gel as they did Newhart. That show also had problems. Jennifer Holmes was gone after the first season. Steven Kampmann was gone after the second. It seems now if a show isn't a hit instantly, it gets killed with no time to work out the bugs. No wonder tv turned to crap, it's almost impossible to be perfect right out of the gate.

This show was the first time Bob Newhart's character had a child. His other two TV marriages were childless.

My memory of "Bob" was mainly that it focused on comics because I have been a cartoon drawer all my life. I seem to recall Bob featuring Dick Martin of "Rowan and Martin." I believe legendary comic artist Jack Kirby made an appearance as well. I also recall "My World and Welcome to It" although I was a pre-teen at the time. Please do a presentation on that show if possible.

The quirky thing is “Newhart” tweaked its cast after a season or two in, and after that, the show really started to gel.

Bob was a funny show!

I just looked on Newhart’s IMDB page. Looks like he had another “forgotten” show after this one. Something with Judd Hirsch AND Jason Bateman called “George & Leo” (‘97-‘98). Maybe you can do a video about that? I’d be interested in hearing how a series with those three didn’t last long! 😮

They used to give a new show a lot longer to work it seems if its a former successful actor, the time is even shorter and less new shows per season people take a while to acculamate to a new show let alone a new one with fewer episodes and writers and actors getting used to each other and thier characters.

I do remember this show. I'm a comic book fan, so I was all primed to like it. However, it was very lackluster and not funny. I was not a fan. In your video, you mentioned to show, "My World and Welcome to It". I did love that show. It was very unusual and starred one of my favorite actor, William Windom. It was worth watching for him alone, but the premise of the show was very fun, for me. I would be delighted if you made a video about it.

I tuned in occasionally on the show because I love Bob Newhart but it never grabbed me. I liked some of the other actors, as well. There was a real short lived Mad Dog comic at the time to tie into the show.

Retooling an old star for a new generation and this was just 2 year after his last show ended. Especially associating it with fad or a current trend. Sometimes the concept works if it has a different star and better execution for instance: take something like Hammerman, a show about a rapping superhero with magic shoes that talked I thought that was pretty cool as a kid, but it would have been sooo much better if Hammer wasn't involved and it had better animation.

Didn't last long , thank you for this post. Could you post on on the Brady's. Thank you. Also Ted Knight played a comic book Artist. On to close for comfort

Please do a show on why Cloris Leachmans Phyllis did not last.

Should have kept Tim Fall from the first season.

The Seinfeld actors would be a good video.

Truth is, the shownsimply did not reallybfit bob newhart. Look at his first two shows - the setup was he was a guy who wouodnhave peoplencome to him he couod react to. Psychiatrist or innkeeper it was a way to funnel people to him. But as a comic book artist he cant quite be that. That is a scenario for ancharacter a lot more active than newharts reactiveness.

It wasn’t that bad. I saw a few of episodes.

The side charcter on Bob. Are not very good.

Bob was terrible