...Show" -- on which he played psychologist Bob Hartley -- ran for six seasons during the '70s. Then he was innkeeper Dick Loudon on "Newhart," which was on the air for eight years. Two later series were comparative duds: "Bob," which ran...

...Hartley on "The Bob Newhart Show," then, after a brief hiatus from television, returned to CBS as inn-keeper Dick Loudon on "Newhart." The two shows share a link, since Loudon woke up in the series finale in the guise of Hartley, suggesting...