Remembering The Magnificent Bob Newhart

Perhaps complex, glaringly low key and oh can we use that brilliant humor, of the great performer, Bob Newhart, who died days back at age 94, now.

He switched from accounting, yielding an award winning album, certainly with his wife Ginnie (more on her brilliance, or that of writer Dan O’Shannon or both later) “hung,” as the kids say with the great Don Rickles and his wife Barbara–traveling extensively and starred amidst a great and colorful cast, in two excellent television shows, each bearing his name, “The Bob Newhart Show” and subsequent to it, “Newhart.”

I will include a past post citing Mr. Newhart and the classic ending to his second great show, “Newhart” the idea that of Bob’s real life wife, Ginnie or writer Dan O’Shannon, again maybe both) cited above.

That scene alone with Suzanne Pleshette, with reference to his other TV wife, Mary Frann and much else puts Newhart among the greats.

Thank you Bob, for that and so much else, as we go on.

Click below for a past post regarding Bob Newhart.

• Watch “The Bob Newhart Show,” This Weekend’s Decades Binge on September 11, 2016

In the “Newhart” finale, Bob is hit by a tennis ball, wakes up from a dream, not as Dick, the inn keeper, but as “Chi” psychiatrist Bob in bed (Bob and Suzanne Pleshette as the married Hartleys, were among, if not the first TV couple to be shown in the same bed–no wonder things went so far, the other way, a la player salaries and politics–) with Suzanne’s “Emily” and reveals the dream, in which he was an inn keeper in Vermont.

It is truly brilliant!

Click below to view it.