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"The Bob Newhart Show" (1972) More at IMDbPro »
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Seitz Asks: What’s Your Favorite TV Theme Song?
3 hours ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Seitz Asks is a weekly feature in which our critic proposes a question about the medium, gives his own answer, then engages with readers about their responses. The theme to The Bob Newhart Show is my favorite piece of opening music for any TV series. Composed by the series' co-creator Lorenzo Music with his wife Henrietta, it's got a commercial big band jazz feel that's fairly typical for the era. Not for series, though. For all its considerable sweetness, this is a surprisingly conceptual piece for network TV, easing in and out of different modes.It starts with Bob answering a phone (a reference to his early stand-up routines featuring one-way phone conversations). This is followed by a false start, then by an extended bit of cheerful but hard-charging music accompanying Bob's walk from his office to the elevated train that'll take him home to his wife Emily (Suzanne Pleshette »
- Matt Zoller Seitz
'The Bob Newhart Show' Memorial Day weekend marathon: 'The show holds up,' says star
26 May 2012 7:00 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Bob Newhart believes being smart, and not overly specific, about its time has helped his first sitcom's popularity endure.
Hallmark Channel presents 12 hours of evidence Sunday (May 27) with a 40th-anniversary marathon of "The Bob Newhart Show," a 1972-78 staple of the CBS Saturday-night lineup that included such other classics as "All in the Family," "M*A*S*H," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Carol Burnett Show."
Newhart's famously buttoned-down humor perfectly suited his role as Chicago psychologist Bob Hartley, whose office misadventures were balanced by his home life with wife Emily (Suzanne Pleshette).
"First, Hallmark is very classy and secondly, the show holds up," Newhart tells Zap2it of his pleasure about this weekend's marathon. "It's enjoying a renaissance, and that's a tribute to the writing and performing. We didn't really go too much into the style of the era, which I think accounts for the longevity ... though in some scenes, »
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TV Director Robert Finkel Dead
26 May 2012 7:21 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Emmy Award-winning TV director and producer Robert Finkel has died at the age of 94.
He passed away at his home in Beverly Hills, California on 30 April after suffering age-related complications, his publicist told the Associated Press on Friday.
Finkel produced TV series with stars including Andy Williams and Jerry Lewis, and directed sitcoms such as Barney Miller and The Bob Newhart Show.
He also won a Peabody Award for a show with Julie Andrews and produced specials featuring Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley and John Denver. »
'Mary Tyler Moore' joins Hallmark Channel: She's gonna make it after all ... again
31 March 2012 4:01 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Mary Tyler Moore couldn't be prouder to have two iconic characters who never are away from television very long.
They're now back-to-back each weeknight on the nostalgic channel Me-tv, where her Mary Richards on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" is followed by her Laura Petrie on "The Dick Van Dyke Show." Each of the classic sitcoms also has another outlet: "Dick Van Dyke" marked its 50th anniversary by rejoining TV Land last fall; and "Mary Tyler Moore" becomes part of the Hallmark Channel lineup with a marathon of first-season episodes Sunday (April 1).
Seven-time Emmy winner Moore tells Zap2it she believes her 1970-77 CBS show's enduring popularity owes to something "The Dick Van Dyke Show" also maintained, "the tradition of good writing and character relationships. We took it another step forward with our show, and that was something to be very proud of.
"For what you see and feel and laugh at now, »
- editorial@zap2it.com
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