--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: The Bob Newhart Show image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta463fbd42855efd3/69869f0206f2c12543330438/t100_tv_bob-newhart-show1.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Aug 14, 2014 # _The Bob Newhart Show_ by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Everett Which was better: _The Bob Newhart Show_ or _Newhart_? Both were excellent comedies, with essentially the same laid-back, stammering protagonist. (So similar that it seemed only natural that Bob should end the second show waking up in bed next to Suzanne Pleshette, his wife from the first.) It’s basically like asking: which was better: the ’70s or the ’80s? Well, I’ll say it—the ’70s. Or rather, that decade’s introspective, self-help-focused ethos, and his ’70s sitcom’s psychiatrist’s office setting, were a slightly better match with _Newhart_‘s sophisticated, droll, talky comedy of neurosis. So I award the nod to Hartley, his talking cures that never quite cured anyone and his windy Windy City patients. (Sorry, Larry, Darryl and Darryl.) [Get This TV Series](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007IO6PA/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3100903/the-bob-newhart-show/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3100903/the-bob-newhart-show/"},"headline":"The Bob Newhart Show","datePublished":"2014-08-14T19:08:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:02:09.988Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3100903/the-bob-newhart-show/","keywords":["Comedy","Sitcom"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta463fbd42855efd3/69869f0206f2c12543330438/t100_tv_bob-newhart-show1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta463fbd42855efd3/69869f0206f2c12543330438/t100_tv_bob-newhart-show1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3100903/the-bob-newhart-show/","name":"The Bob Newhart Show"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Bob Newhart Show","description":"Bob Newhart's talking cures never quite cured anyone in this 1970's comedy.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/Cc079Pyw/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2007-09-04T15:31:29.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Cc079Pyw.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3100903/the-bob-newhart-show/","duration":"PT33S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3100903/the-bob-newhart-show/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```