History Series / Newhart

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In a last-season episode, Jack Riley, aka ''{{The Bob Newhart Show''}}'s Eliot Carlin, shows up as an unnamed man seeking psychiatric help for his deep neuroses. Could another reality have been invading, trying to [[spoiler:wake Bob Hartley up?]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: An alternative ending was filmed with Dick going to Heaven and meeting GeorgeBurns as God after getting hit by the golf ball. This would have been used on the show had the dream ending been spoiled by being leaked to the press early.

* {{Foreshadowing}} - In a last season episode, Jack Riley, aka TheBobNewhartShow's Eliot Carlin, shows up as an unnamed man seeking psychiatric help for his deep neuroses. Could another reality have been invading, trying to [[spoiler:Wake Bob Hartley Up?]]

* AwayInAManger: Used in the season 1 episode "No Room at the Inn".

** Kind of a sadly-averted CrowningMusicOfAwesome because of the Mancini tie-in. The man who wrote the timeless jazz themes for ''ThePinkPanther'' and ''PeterGunn'' basically wrote pleasant-but-bland elevator music for this theme.
** It may be "Pleasant but bland", but it fit the mood of a series set in a sleepy Vermont town better then a jazz theme would (or the ''RemingtonSteele'' theme written the same year).

* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Michael Harris speaks in alliteration.

* LastOfHisKind: When ''Newhart'' premiered in 1982, it was pretty much the only remaining MTM Enterprises production that still aired on former stronghold Creator/{{CBS}}, as the company pretty much began airing most of its product on Creator/{{NBC}} due to company co-founder and president Grant Tinker becoming chairman and CEO there. In addition, it was also pretty much MTM's last major sitcom, as by this time the company had pretty much shifted its focus to cranking out dramas instead.

* LastOfHisKind: When ''Newhart'' premiered in 1982, it was pretty much the only show from MTM Productions that still aired on Creator/{{CBS}}, as the company pretty much began airing most of their product on Creator/{{NBC}} due to company co-founder and president Grant Tinker becoming chairman and CEO there. In addition, it was also pretty much MTM's last major sitcom, as by this time the company had pretty much shifted its focus to cranking out dramas instead.

* AllJustADream: Brilliantly played with; after the completely out-there finale, having that episode revealed to be a dream wasn't unexpected. Finding out ''whose'' dream, now...

* In "No Tigers at the Circus", Dick watches his favorite TV program. The theme song is heard, and it's the theme from ''The Bob Newhart Show''.

* NewhartPhonecall: TropeNamer. A common gag on the show.

* TwistEnding: Parodied, in one of the all-time great TV moments.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted ''hard'' with Larry's brothers.

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--> '''Bob:''' Well, I was an innkeeper in this crazy little town in Vermont! [[LampshadeHanging Nothing made sense in this place.]] I mean, the maid was an heiress. Her husband talked in alliteration. The handyman kept missing the point of things. And then there were these three woodsmen, but only one of them talked!\\

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** This was done to parody the last episode of ''StElsewhere'', where the ''entire series'' is revealed to be the daydream of an autistic boy.

* YouLookFamiliar: Thomas Hill (Chester) and Julia Duffy (Stephanie) had played father and daughter in the short lived 1983 CBS show ''WizardsAndWarriors''.
** In the finale, Dr Hartley fails to notice that his best friend in college is his handyman.

* ReTool: One of the most successful examples. During the second season, the show switched from videotape to film, added Stephanie as a regular, and opened up the show beyond the inn by giving Dick a job hosting a local TV show (which also brought Michael in as a new character). All these changes helped make the show more popular.

* LastOfHisKind: When ''Newhart'' premiered in 1982, it was pretty much the only show from MTM Productions that still aired on {{CBS}}, as the company pretty much began airing most of their product on {{NBC}} due to company co-founder and president Grant Tinker becoming chairman and CEO there. In addition, it was also pretty much MTM's last major sitcom, as by this time the company had pretty much shifted its focus to cranking out dramas instead.

* CloserToEarth

* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine

** Kind of a sadly-averted [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Crowning Music of Awesome]] because of the Mancini tie-in. The man who wrote the timeless jazz themes for ''ThePinkPanther'' and ''PeterGunn'' basically wrote pleasant-but-bland elevator music for this theme.

* [[TheTonightShow Johnny Carson]]: Pays Larry and the Darryls' gas bill.

* MadMagazine: ''Not So New-Heart''

* NewhartPhonecall: [[TropeNamer Trope Namer]]. A common gag on the show.

** In the finale, Dr Hartley fails to notice that his best friend in college is his handyman.

* AllJustADream: Brilliantly played with; after the completely out-there finale, having that episode revealed to be a dream wasn't unexpected. Finding out ''whose'' dream, now...)

** Kind of a sadly-averted [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Crowning Music of Awesome]] because of the Mancini tie-in. The man who wrote the timeless jazz themes for ''ThePinkPanther'' and ''PeterGunn'' basically wrote [[YourMilageMayVary pleasant-but-bland elevator music]] for this theme.

* AsHimself: [[TheTonightShow Johnny Carson]], [[TheCarolBurnettShow Tim Conway]].