The Bob Newhart Show Season 5, Episode 12: Breaking Up is Hard to Do

1

Enter Mrs. Peeper

Bob receives a telegram saying that his old college chum, The Peeper, is coming to Chicago and bringing a surprise. The surprise turns out to be a brand-new bride.

2

Caged Fury

The Hartleys miss their friend's gala Fourth of July Bicentennial party celebration when they become trapped in a storage locker.

3

Some of My Best Friends Are...

Bob's therapy group has an unexpected visitor when a friendly homosexual joins in the sessions.

4

Still Crazy After All These Years

The Hartleys take a vacation. In their absence, Howard undergoes a crash psychological program that changes his entire personality.

5

The Great Rent Strike

The Hartley apartment becomes a hot and cold battleground when the good doctor declares psychological warfare on his landlord.

6

Et, Tu, Carol?

Both Bob's receptionist and a Buddha figure with a clock in its navel give the psychologist a hard time.

7

Send This Boy to Camp

Bob and his friends host an orphan contingent for a wildly improbable camping-out experience.

8

A Crime Most Foul

Bob turns amateur detective when he believes that his expensive tape recorder has been stolen.

9

The Slammer

Bob and his friend The Peeper take a trip down Memory Lane and wind up in the slammer.

10

Jerry's Retirement

Bob defends the work ethic when Jerry comes into a pile of money and promptly retires from the dental profession.

11

Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson

Jerry, retired orthodontist and orphan, takes off on a world tour to search for his long-lost parents.

12

Breaking Up is Hard to Do

Bob undergoes a shock when his mother announces that she has separated from his father after 47 years of marriage.

13

Making Up is the Thing to Do

Bob takes on the role of Christmas peacemaker when he attempts to reconcile his parents.

14

Love is the Blindest

Bob watches in amazement as one of his patients supports a blossoming romance with a tissue of lies.

15

The Ironwood Experience

Bob's invitation to lecture at a prestigious sex seminar results in distress when the audience shows up nude.

16

Of Mice and Men

Bob runs into marital problems when he brings his therapy group home for a wild role-playing encounter.

17

Halls of Hartley

Bob succumbs to the pressures of living in a big city and desperately seeks employment of a small rural college.

18

The Heartbreak Kidd

Bob thinks that Veronica Kidd, a student trainee, has fallen in love with him.

19

Death Be My Destiny

Bob strikes out against a friend's fear of falling, but succumbs to the same phobia himself when he is subjected to a harrowing elevator experience.

20

Taxation Without Celebration

Bob's memory is taxed to the limit when he forgets that April 15 is the Federal income tax deadline—and also the date of the Hartleys' seventh wedding anniversary.

21

Desperate Sessions

Bob is held hostage in his office by a friendly bank robber.

22

The Mentor

A despondent friend accepts Bob's suggestion and turns the psychologist's reception area into a mini-Polynesian village.

23

Shrinking Violence

Bob offers sound psychological advice to his wife and his therapy group on how to handle anger. Then he proceeds to blow up himself.

24

You're Having My Hartley

Hot baby news is the order of the day when Carol, Bob's receptionist, announces that she's expecting a baby. Then, Emily drops her bombshell—and Bob nearly comes unglued at the prospect of becoming a father.