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The Comedy Team of Bob Newhart
He played straight man and comic at the same time.
Newhart played an increasingly terrified driving instructor, the TV director doing a run-of-show for Soviet premier Khrushchev’s first trip to the United States, and a New York ad man advising Abraham Lincoln not to rewrite the Gettysburg Address. Suzanne Pleshette played Bob’s sardonic and knowing wife Emily, with I Dream of Jeannie co-star Bill Daily constantly intruding as their goofball neighbor, Howard Borden. This time, he played a travel writer named Dick Loudon who’s moved from New York City to Vermont with his wife, Joanna (Mary Frann), to run a bed-and-breakfast in a town with as many weirdos as Bob Hartley’s Chicago had, though none of them had any idea they should be in therapy.
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