Season 5
24 episodes · first aired 1976-09-25
| Still | # | Title | Overview | Air date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Enter Mrs. Peeper 1976-09-25 | 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. | 1976-09-25 | 7.0 | |
| 02 | Caged Fury 1976-10-02 | The Hartleys miss their friend's gala Fourth of July Bicentennial party celebration when they become trapped in a storage locker. | 1976-10-02 | 8.0 | |
| 03 | Some of My Best Friends Are... 1976-10-09 | Bob's therapy group has an unexpected visitor when a friendly homosexual joins in the sessions. | 1976-10-09 | 0.0 | |
| 04 | Still Crazy After All These Years 1976-10-16 | The Hartleys take a vacation. In their absence, Howard undergoes a crash psychological program that changes his entire personality. | 1976-10-16 | 0.0 | |
| 05 | The Great Rent Strike 1976-10-23 | The Hartley apartment becomes a hot and cold battleground when the good doctor declares psychological warfare on his landlord. | 1976-10-23 | 0.0 | |
| 06 | Et, Tu, Carol? 1976-10-30 | Both Bob's receptionist and a Buddha figure with a clock in its navel give the psychologist a hard time. | 1976-10-30 | 0.0 | |
| 07 | Send This Boy to Camp 1976-11-06 | Bob and his friends host an orphan contingent for a wildly improbable camping-out experience. | 1976-11-06 | 0.0 | |
| 08 | A Crime Most Foul 1976-11-13 | Bob turns amateur detective when he believes that his expensive tape recorder has been stolen. | 1976-11-13 | 0.0 | |
| 09 | The Slammer 1976-11-20 | Bob and his friend The Peeper take a trip down Memory Lane and wind up in the slammer. | 1976-11-20 | 8.0 | |
| 10 | Jerry's Retirement 1976-11-27 | Bob defends the work ethic when Jerry comes into a pile of money and promptly retires from the dental profession. | 1976-11-27 | 7.0 | |
| 11 | Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson 1976-12-04 | Jerry, retired orthodontist and orphan, takes off on a world tour to search for his long-lost parents. | 1976-12-04 | 0.0 | |
| 12 | Breaking Up is Hard to Do 1976-12-11 | Bob undergoes a shock when his mother announces that she has separated from his father after 47 years of marriage. | 1976-12-11 | 7.0 | |
| 13 | Making Up is the Thing to Do 1976-12-25 | Bob takes on the role of Christmas peacemaker when he attempts to reconcile his parents. | 1976-12-25 | 8.0 | |
| 14 | Love is the Blindest 1977-01-08 | Bob watches in amazement as one of his patients supports a blossoming romance with a tissue of lies. | 1977-01-08 | 7.0 | |
| 15 | The Ironwood Experience 1977-01-15 | Bob's invitation to lecture at a prestigious sex seminar results in distress when the audience shows up nude. | 1977-01-15 | 8.0 | |
| 16 | Of Mice and Men 1977-01-22 | Bob runs into marital problems when he brings his therapy group home for a wild role-playing encounter. | 1977-01-22 | 4.0 | |
| 17 | Halls of Hartley 1977-01-29 | Bob succumbs to the pressures of living in a big city and desperately seeks employment of a small rural college. | 1977-01-29 | 7.0 | |
| 18 | The Heartbreak Kidd 1977-02-05 | Bob thinks that Veronica Kidd, a student trainee, has fallen in love with him. | 1977-02-05 | 7.0 | |
| 19 | Death Be My Destiny 1977-02-12 | 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. | 1977-02-12 | 8.0 | |
| 20 | Taxation Without Celebration 1977-02-19 | 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. | 1977-02-19 | 0.0 | |
| 21 | Desperate Sessions 1977-02-26 | Bob is held hostage in his office by a friendly bank robber. | 1977-02-26 | 0.0 | |
| 22 | The Mentor 1977-03-05 | A despondent friend accepts Bob's suggestion and turns the psychologist's reception area into a mini-Polynesian village. | 1977-03-05 | 7.0 | |
| 23 | Shrinking Violence 1977-03-12 | Bob offers sound psychological advice to his wife and his therapy group on how to handle anger. Then he proceeds to blow up himself. | 1977-03-12 | 7.0 | |
| 24 | You're Having My Hartley 1977-03-19 | 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. | 1977-03-19 | 8.0 |
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