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American 1982–1990 television set series

Newhart

Created by	Barry Kemp
Adult past	Sheldon Balderdash
Starring	Bob Newhart Mary Frann Jennifer Holmes Julia Duffy Tom Poston Steven Kampmann Peter Scolari William Sanderson Tony Papenfuss John Voldstad
Theme music composer	Henry Mancini
State of origin	The states
Original language	English
No. of seasons	viii
No. of episodes	184 (listing of episodes)
Product
Executive producers	Barry Kemp Marker Egan Mark Solomon Dan Wilcox Douglas Wyman David Mirkin
Producer	Sheldon Bull
Running time	24 minutes
Product company	MTM Enterprises
Distributor	20th Idiot box
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	October 25, 1982 (1982-10-25) – May 21, 1990 (1990-05-21)
Chronology
Preceded by	The Bob Newhart Show (1972-1978)
Followed past	Bob (Tv set series) (1992-1993)

Newhart is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS from Oct 25, 1982, to May 21, 1990, with a full of 184 half-60 minutes episodes spanning viii seasons. The series stars Bob Newhart and Mary Frann as an author and his married woman, respectively, who own and operate an inn in a small, rural Vermont boondocks that is home to many eccentric characters. TV Guide, TV State, and A&East named the Newhart series finale as one of the most memorable in tv history. The theme music for Newhart was composed by Henry Mancini.

Premise [edit]

Bob Newhart plays Dick Loudon, an author of do-it-yourself and travel books. He and his married woman Joanna motion from New York Metropolis to a minor town in rural Vermont to operate the 200-yr-old Stratford Inn. Although the town's proper noun was never specified in the testify, some media sources identified information technology equally Norwich.^[1] The outside shot of the business firm is the Waybury Inn in East Middlebury.

Dick is a sane, mild-mannered lowest surrounded by a community of oddballs in a town that exists in an illogical earth governed by rules that elude him. Most the end of the second flavor, Dick began hosting a low-rated talk show on the town'due south local television station. As the series progressed, episodes focused increasingly on Dick'due south television career and the quirky townsfolk.

Bandage [edit]

Main [edit]

Bob Newhart equally Dick Loudon, owner of the Stratford Inn
Mary Frann equally Joanna Loudon, Dick's wife
Tom Poston every bit George Utley, the handyman/maintenance homo at the Stratford Inn
Jennifer Holmes as Leslie Vanderkellen, a maid at the Stratford Inn (1982–83)
Steven Kampmann every bit Kirk Devane, liar, possessor of the Minuteman Café (1982–84)
William Sanderson as Larry, Tony Papenfuss as his blood brother Darryl and John Voldstad every bit his other brother Darryl, backwoodsmen who alive in the same boondocks. A recurring gag is that they are always fighting over who gets to do what. The three take over the Minuteman Café following Kirk's departure. The ii Darryls never speak until the final episode. (recurring 1982–84, main cast 1984–90)
Julia Duffy as Stephanie Vanderkellen, a maid at The Stratford and Leslie's cousin (1983–xc)
Peter Scolari as Michael Harris, the producer of Dick's television testify and Stephanie's husband (recurring 1983–84, main 1984–90)

Recurring [edit]

William Lanteau as Chester Wanamaker, the town'south mayor (1982–90)
Thomas Hill as Jim Dixon, Chester'southward all-time friend (1982–ninety)
Rebecca York as Cindy Parker-Devane, a professional clown, Kirk's girlfriend and later on wife (1983–84)
Jeff Doucette as Harley Estin, a friend of George who is always looking for a chore (1983–88)
Fred Applegate as J.J. Wall, the director of Dick'southward television show (1984–87)
Ralph Manza as Bud, the assistant director of Dick'due south television show (1984–xc)
Linda Carlson as Bev Dutton, the television station manager (1984–87)
Todd Susman as Officer Shifflett, the town'south chief of police (1984–90)
Melanie Chartoff as Dr. Mary Kaiser, Stephanie and Michael'south therapist (1987–90)
Kathy Kinney as Prudence Goddard, the boondocks librarian (1989–xc)
David Pressman as Mr. Rusnak, the local shoe store manager (1989–90)
José Ferrer as Arthur Vanderkellen, Stephanie'south begetter
Priscilla Morrill equally Marian Vanderkellen, Stephanie'due south female parent

"The Last Newhart" [edit]

The serial finale of Newhart, titled "The Terminal Newhart", has been described as one of the nearly memorable in television history.^[two] ^[3] The entire boondocks is purchased by a visiting Japanese tycoon, who turns the hamlet into an enormous golf course and recreation resort. Dick and Joanna are the only townspeople who pass up to leave. The others accept one thousand thousand-dollar payoffs and leave in a good day scene that parodies Fiddler on the Roof.

Five years later, Dick and Joanna continue to run the Stratford Inn, which is at present located in the middle of the golf course. The other townspeople, now richer and older, unexpectedly return for a reunion. The Darryl brothers also speak for the first time on screen, loudly yelling "Quiet!" at their wives in unison. Dick gets frustrated with the increasingly cluttered scene, and storms out shouting "You're all crazy!", only to exist knocked out by an errant golf brawl.

The setting of the last scene is dark, in the bedroom of Dr. Bob Hartley (The Bob Newhart Evidence) and his wife Emily (Suzanne Pleshette). Bob awakens, upset, and he wakes Emily to tell her about the very strange dream he has just had: that he was an innkeeper in a small Vermont town filled with eccentric characters. Emily tells him "that settles it—no more than Japanese food before you go to bed." Bob mentions his marriage to a "beautiful blonde," and that Emily should wearable more sweaters (in reference to Mary Frann's form-plumbing equipment tops) before the credits whorl.

Several references are fabricated to Newhart'southward quondam evidence, including the use of its theme song and credits. Although the Bob Newhart Testify theme was missing from the final closing credit shot in the series' initial syndication run, the theme has been reinstated in the current version syndicated past 20th Century Trick Tv set.

The MTM cat logo ordinarily closed the testify stop credits with Newhart voicing-over the "meow", simply for the finale, the true cat'southward voiceover was a reprise of Darryl and Darryl yelling "Quiet!"

Reception to the finale [edit]

Interviews with Newhart, Pleshette, and director Dick Martin reveal that the final scene was kept a hole-and-corner from the cast and most of the crew. A fake ending was written to throw off the tabloids that involved Dick Loudon going to heaven after beingness hit with a golf ball and talking to God played past George Burns or George C. Scott. Pleshette was kept hidden until her scene was shot. When the scene began, many people in the live audience recognized the chamber set from The Bob Newhart Show and flare-up into spontaneous applause. Pleshette and Newhart performed the scene in ane take.

In 1991, the cast of The Bob Newhart Show reunited in a primetime special. One of the things they did was analyze Bob's dream. During the discussion, the Hartleys' neighbor, Howard Borden (Bill Daily), quipped, "I had a dream like that one time. I dreamed I was an astronaut in Florida for five seasons", while scenes were shown from I Dream of Jeannie, which featured Daily in all five seasons. At the stop of the reunion special, Dr. Bob Hartley gets on the elevator merely to run across three familiar workmen doing repairs in the elevator and one of them says to Bob, "Hi. I'm Larry. This is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl."

Amusement Weekly claimed in 1995 that Newhart's married woman Ginny had conceived the idea for the finale, just the evidence's executive producers, Mark Egan, Marker Solomon, and Bob Bendetson, denied this in a letter to the editor, "[T]he terminal episode of Newhart was not 'dreamed up' by Bob'due south wife, Ginny. She had absolutely no connection with the show. ... We wrote and produced the Emmy-nominated script (with special thanks to Dan O'Shannon)."^[v]

Newhart himself, in his 2006 book I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This! And Other Things that Strike Me every bit Funny, stated that his wife had indeed proposed the ending of Newhart.^[6] He reiterated this in a 2022 interview with director and comedian David Steinberg, saying,

That was Ginnie's idea. ... She said, 'You ought to stop in a dream sequence because in that location was so much inexplicable virtually the evidence.' She said, 'You lot should wake upwardly in bed with Susie and explicate what's so—" and I said, 'What a great idea,' and I gave the idea to the writers and they fleshed it out with the Japanese buying the town and our not selling."^[7]

Suzanne Pleshette, in a Idiot box University interview, too avers that the idea was Ginny's, having heard it from Ginny over dinner with the Newharts several years before the finale was shot.^[8]

In November 2005, the series finale was named by TV Guide and Television set Land every bit the virtually unexpected moment in TV history.^[9] The episode was watched by 29.5 1000000 United states viewers,^[x] bringing in an xviii.vii/29 rating/share, and ranking every bit the most-watched program that week.^[eleven]

In 2022, the finale was ranked number four on the TV Guide Network special, TV'due south Most Unforgettable Finales,^[12] and in 2022 was ranked number 1 in Entertainment Weekly'due south 20 Best Television Series Finales Ever.^[13]

In popular civilization [edit]

On the February 11, 1995, episode of Sat Night Alive which was hosted by Bob Newhart, the episode's closing sketch concluded with a redux of Newhart's last scene, in which Bob Hartley again wakes with his wife Emily (special guest Suzanne Pleshette) and tells her that he had just had a dream of hosting Saturday Night Alive. Emily responds, "Saturday Night Alive, is that testify still on?"—this during a menstruum when SNL was heavily criticized for its failing quality.^[xiv] ^[15]

In 2010, Jimmy Kimmel Live! presented several parody alternating endings to the telly bear witness Lost, one of which mirrored the finale of Newhart complete with a cameo appearance by Bob Newhart and with Lost star Evangeline Lilly in place of Emily/Pleshette.^[16]

The concluding scene with Newhart and Pleshette was later parodied in an alternate catastrophe to the idiot box serial Breaking Bad where actor Bryan Cranston wakes from a dream adjacent to his Malcolm in the Middle co-star Jane Kaczmarek where they assume their respective roles of Hal and Lois. Hal recounts the events of Breaking Bad in humorous mode as though he is horrified that he could do those things albeit as Walter White. Lois reassures him that everything is all right and the final shot is of Walter's chapeau.^[17]

The last scene of The Late Tardily Show with Craig Ferguson parodied this, every bit well. Subsequently revealing that Bob Newhart had been playing the on-set pantomime horse Secretariat, Ferguson wakes up as his The Drew Carey Show graphic symbol Nigel Wick, in bed with his co-star Drew Carey. The two and then discuss the crazy possibility of Wick being a talk bear witness host and Carey losing weight and becoming a game evidence host. (The shot connected with a parody of the twist ending of St. Elsewhere and so the closing vocal from The Sopranos finale.)

Reception [edit]

Newhart was a solid ratings winner, finishing its offset 5 seasons in the Nielsen superlative 25. Despite not finishing in the top 30 for its final two seasons, Bob Newhart stated in an interview with the Annal of American Television set that CBS was satisfied enough with the show'south ratings to renew it for a ninth season in 1990. However, Newhart, who was anxious to move on to other projects, declined the offering, promising CBS that he would develop a new series for the network, which he was under contract to do. This resulted in the 1992 serial Bob, which lasted for ii seasons.

*Newhart* season rankings in the U.Due south. television market
Flavour		Episodes	Original air dates		TV flavour	Nielsen ratings
Flavour		Episodes	Season premiere	Flavour finale	TV flavour	Rank	Rating	Households^[a] / Viewers^[b] (in millions)
	1	22	October 25, 1982	April 10, 1983	1982–1983	#12	20.0	16.66
	two	22	October 17, 1983	April 16, 1984	1983–1984	#23	18.0	xv.08
	3	22	Oct 15, 1984	May 28, 1985	1984–1985	#16	18.iv	North/A
	4	24	September 30, 1985	May 12, 1986	1985–1986	#16	19.6	16.84
	5	24	September 29, 1986	April xiii, 1987	1986–1987	#12	19.5	17.04
	6	24	September fourteen, 1987	April 9, 1988	1987–1988	#25	16.five	North/A
	vii	22	October 24, 1988	May 22, 1989	1988–1989	#50	12.viii	North/A
	eight	24	September 18, 1989	May 21, 1990	1989–1990	#48	13.1	xix.34

^ 1982–1987
^ 1989–1990

Awards [edit]

Nominations [edit]

Emmy Awards [edit]

The show was nominated for 25 Emmy Awards only never won.

1983

Outstanding Comedy Series – Sheldon Balderdash, Producer; Barry Kemp, Executive Producer
Outstanding Video Tape Editing For a Series – Andy Ackerman

1984

Outstanding Comedy Series – Sheldon Bull, Producer; Barry Kemp, Executive Producer
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a One-act Serial – Tom Poston
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a One-act Series – Julia Duffy

1985

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Bob Newhart
Outstanding Supporting Extra in a Comedy Series – Julia Duffy

1986

Outstanding Lead Histrion in a One-act Series – Bob Newhart
Outstanding Sound Mixing For a Comedy Series or Special – Andrew MacDonald, Sound Mixer; Bill Nicholson, Audio Mixer; Craig Porter, Sound Mixer; Richard Wachter, Sound Mixer
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Tom Poston
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series – Julia Duffy

1987

Outstanding Atomic number 82 Actor in a Comedy Series – Bob Newhart
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series:
- Tom Poston
- Peter Scolari
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Serial – Julia Duffy
Outstanding Writing For a One-act Serial – David Mirkin ("Co-Hostess Twinkie")

1988

Outstanding Editing For a Serial (Multi-Camera Production) – Michael Wilcox, Editor
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Peter Scolari
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Serial – Julia Duffy

1989

Outstanding Guest Actress in a One-act Series – Eileen Brennan
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Peter Scolari
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series – Julia Duffy

1990

Outstanding Editing For a Series (Multi-Camera Production) – Michael Wilcox, Editor
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series – Julia Duffy
Outstanding Writing For a Comedy Serial – Bob Bendetson, Marker Egan and Mark Solomon ("The Last Newhart")

Golden Globe Awards [edit]

Newhart earned six nominations for Aureate Globe Awards.

Television Series – Musical or Comedy (1984)
Actor in a Boob tube Series – Musical or Comedy: Bob Newhart (1983–1986)
Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Serial or Motility Picture show Made for Television: Julia Duffy (1988)

Other awards [edit]

Newhart was nominated for one Casting Gild of America honour and 4 nominations for TV Land Awards. Newhart won a total of 4 Viewers for Quality Tv set Awards.

Home media [edit]

20th Century Fox released season one of Newhart on DVD in Region one on February 26, 2008.

In November 2022, information technology was announced that Shout! Factory had acquired the rights to the series. They have since released the entire series in individual season sets.^[18] ^[19] ^[twenty]

DVD Name	Ep No	Release Date
The Complete Start Season	22	February 26, 2008
The Complete 2d Season	22	February 11, 2022
The Complete Third Season	22	Apr 22, 2022
The Consummate Fourth Season	24	August nineteen, 2022
The Complete Fifth Season	24	May 10, 2022
The Complete 6th Flavour	24	September thirteen, 2022
The Consummate 7th Flavor	22	December xiii, 2022
The Complete Eighth Flavour	24	March fourteen, 2022

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External links [edit]

Newhart at IMDb
Newhart at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television