I'm enjoying the first season so much, but I'd been reluctant to get through it, fearing it would be the last. I'm so happy to read of the second season coming!
I doubt WKRP will be out for a while. Fox might be holding back on Rhoda to put it out alongside future seasons of Mary Tyler Moore, specifically the ones without Valerie Harper.
25. 2- 1 7355 15 Sep 73 Last TV Show 26. 2- 2 7360 22 Sep 73 Motel 27. 2- 3 7352 29 Sep 73 Backlash 28. 2- 4 7357 6 Oct 73 Somebody Down Here Likes Me 29. 2- 5 7356 13 Oct 73 Emily in for Carol 30. 2- 6 7353 20 Oct 73 Have You Met Miss Dietz? 31. 2- 7 7359 27 Oct 73 Old Man Rivers 32. 2- 8 7363 3 Nov 73 Mister Emily Hartley 33. 2- 9 7365 10 Nov 73 Mutiny on the Hartley 34. 2-10 7364 17 Nov 73 I'm Okay, You're Okay, So What's Wrong? 35. 2-11 7358 24 Nov 73 Fit, Fat, and Forty-One 36. 2-12 7366 1 Dec 73 Blues for Mr. Borden 37. 2-13 7362 8 Dec 73 My Wife Belongs to Daddy 38. 2-14 7368 15 Dec 73 T. S. Elliot 39. 2-15 7370 22 Dec 73 I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas 40. 2-16 7367 5 Jan 74 Oh, Brother 41. 2-17 7371 12 Jan 74 The Modernization of Emily 42. 2-18 7374 19 Jan 74 The Jobless Corps 43. 2-19 7369 26 Jan 74 Clink Shrink 44. 2-20 7351 2 Feb 74 Mind Your Own Business 45. 2-21 7375 9 Feb 74 A Love Story 46. 2-22 7372 16 Feb 74 By the Way... You're Fired 47. 2-23 7376 23 Feb 74 Confessions of An Orthodontist 48. 2-24 7373 2 Mar 74 A Matter of Principal
Hard to believe, but I think Seasons 3-5 is when the show really hits it's stride, with the guy that says "Find and Dandy", the one with Dave Death and "Mad Dog" Herd, Henry Winkler: "I'm your crook." and many many more great shows.
Wow! Looking over an episode guide, it appears TBNS had a Christmas episode every year. That's pretty unusual, isn't it? It seems most shows have one, maybe two, Christmas eps.
I don't remember any of the others, but the first season one was pretty good. I look forward to the next one and the rest of the set.
Yes, it's not usual to have one every year, but it's certainly not unusual to have more than 1 or 2. The following are some shows with a lot of holiday episodes (and I may be lowballing some of these from faulty memory):
Home Improvement had 7 Xmas shows, 5 Halloweens and 5 Thanksgivings.
Frasier had 7 Xmas shows, 3 Halloweens and 2 Thanksgivings.
King of Queens has had (so far) 6 Xmas episdoes, 1 Halloween, and 5 Thanksgivings.
Everybody Loves Raymond had 6 Xmas episodes, 1 Halloween, and 8 Thanksgivings.
and The Bob Newhart show had, in addition to the 6 Xmas episodes, 2 Thanksgivings.
The progress of The Bob Newhart Show has to do with the progress of two writers, Jay Tarses and Tom Patchett. In season 1, they wrote a couple of episodes; in season 2, they came on full-time staff and wrote six or seven episodes; in season 3, they became head writers, and in seasons 4 and 5 they became showrunners (the creators, Lorenzo Music and Dave Davis, had left to do Rhoda). Tarses's dark sensibility, which would later lead him to come up with anti-sitcoms like Buffalo Bill, helped give TBNS more and more of an edge the more control he got.
This is fantastic news from Gord and David. While I know people are down on double-sided disks, we are looking at 24 full episodes (I base this belief on Season One being intact, except for a 5 second music replacement), at least 5 commentaries, and a making of featurette of this classic show, all for $29.99 list, which translates to $20-$22 on sale upon release. While like some people I thought the picture on the Season One DVD could have been better, I am grateful enough for complete episodes.
Not me. This is my favorite show out of the two by far. I enjoyed all of the characters. In the "Newhart" show I disliked the maid and her boyfriend enough to prefer the "Bob Newhart Show" hands down. I will still pick up sets of the "Newharts" if they are ever released as it would still be my favorite 80's show.