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Enter Mrs. Peeper

Episode number: 1

Overview: 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.

Caged Fury

Episode number: 2

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

Some of My Best Friends Are...

Episode number: 3

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

Still Crazy After All These Years

Episode number: 4

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

The Great Rent Strike

Episode number: 5

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

Et, Tu, Carol?

Episode number: 6

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

Send This Boy to Camp

Episode number: 7

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

A Crime Most Foul

Episode number: 8

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

The Slammer

Episode number: 9

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

Jerry's Retirement

Episode number: 10

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

Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson

Episode number: 11

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

Breaking Up is Hard to Do

Episode number: 12

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

Making Up is the Thing to Do

Episode number: 13

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

Love is the Blindest

Episode number: 14

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

The Ironwood Experience

Episode number: 15

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

Of Mice and Men

Episode number: 16

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

Halls of Hartley

Episode number: 17

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

The Heartbreak Kidd

Episode number: 18

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

Death Be My Destiny

Episode number: 19

Overview: 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.

Taxation Without Celebration

Episode number: 20

Overview: 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.

Desperate Sessions

Episode number: 21

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

The Mentor

Episode number: 22

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

Shrinking Violence

Episode number: 23

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

You're Having My Hartley

Episode number: 24

Overview: 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.