The Bob Newhart Show - The Complete First Season
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Movie Reviews of The Bob Newhart Show - The Complete First Season
Movie Review: Intelligent comedy
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bob Newhart show is filled with rather intelligent comedy.
As you watch the shows, you also learn about relationships,
psychology, and love. Would highly recommend watching,
and enjoying the series. We have made a family program out
of it, where situations lead to rather interesting conversations.
Movie Review: A Great Mystery
Summary: 4 Stars
Like many others here, I watched this show when it was on TV (although I'd not heard of the accompanying drinking game until today). Being born and bred in Chicago, though, there was a great mystery here...
In the opening sequence, we see Bob leaving his downtown Chicago office. We then see him repeatedly going back and forth across the north branch of the Chicago River. Which leads any reviewer to speculate on the causes for this:
1. Did he find Emily (Suzanne Pleshette) too hard to take, and was debating whether to go home or not?
2. Did Bob have undiagnosed ADHD?
3. Was he looking for the Billy Goat Tavern?
The audio commentaries on the DVD, while great, leave these questions unanswered. What we do get here, though, is great TV: no innuendos, no racial humor, nothing but straight, funny writing and acting.
Movie Review: Bob Newhart - First Season
Summary: 5 Stars
I highly recommened these DVD's! How exciting and refreshing it is to pop in a DVD and go back in time to the 1970's again! Its wonderful to rewatch such a a classic piece of tv! Truly worth adding to your collection!Movie Review: The Start of Something Special
Summary: 3 Stars
Long before today's stand-up comics started to get their own series, Bob Newhart made the move from being a stand-up comic to the main character of his own situation comedy. His success as a stand-up comedian had led to his hosting a variety show in 1961, but hosting a show is not the same as acting and this show from the 1970s led the way to so many comedians making the move. As with all his series, the success of "The Bob Newhart Show" comes from the ensemble and the writing.
The first season (1972-1973) is a bit uneven at the start, but the creators and writers tweaked it a bit to get the right feel and by the end of the first season the show had really hit its stride. The difference between the pilot episode and shows like "The Man with the Golden Wrist", "Not with my Sister you don't", and "Bum Voyage" is tremendous. So if you think the show isn't as good as you remembered it when you are watching the shows from the first third of the season, don't worry too much, because it keeps getting better, and the last third of the season is very funny.
There are no extras in this DVD set. There are 24 episodes on 3 DVDs each of which has 4 episodes per side. There are no actor profiles, features, interviews, or anything like that. The sound is mono, and they probably could have done a better job of cleaning up the video. However, despite these issues this is definitely a funny show and for those who like comedy with more thought and less slapstick, this is for you. I can only give this DVD set 3 stars because of the issues I mentioned with the DVD set, and because the show itself gets better in subsequent seasons.
Movie Review: Great Show (but no extras)
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my all-time favorite comedies, so I was happy to see that it was finally available on dvd. The first two seasons were as good as I remembered, and the only disappointment was that there was no bonus material at all.
Bob plays a psychologist from Chicago and he's got some pretty funny patients. Any show with Mr. Carlin or Bob's group sessions is worth watching. The rest of the cast is his wife, their neighbor, an orthodontist who works in Bob's building and the secretary they share with a few other doctors. All of them are good, but it's Bob and his patients who really make the show.
It's also fun to laugh at the ridiculous clothes they wore 30 years ago.
If you enjoyed the show, go ahead and buy the discs, but don't expect to see any extras on these discs.