{"id":25850,"date":"2014-06-10T07:54:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T11:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25850"},"modified":"2021-03-24T10:29:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T14:29:09","slug":"newhart-and-television-in-the-photo-we-see-bob-with-an-rca-tk41-at-nbc-burb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25850","title":{"rendered":"Newhart And Television&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newhart And Television&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the photo, we see Bob with an RCA TK41 at NBC Burbank. Notice the lens turret handle on the back of the camera is at a kind of 2 o&#8217;clock position which is an easy way to &#8220;cap&#8221; the camera to save the three very expensive IO tubes inside. There are four lens positions on the turret and lock in with the handle at the 12, 3, 6 and 9 o&#8217;clock positions. At the link is a few rare seconds of &#8216;The Bob Newhart Show&#8217; on NBC in 1961.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BOB NEWHART VARIETY SHOW opening credits NBC\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ji1ozJmCIdE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s too much to tell about Bob Newhart&#8217;s sitcoms, and we&#8217;ll take those up at another time. This story is more about Bob&#8217;s rise to fame via television and the many shows he appeared on before his sitcom days at CBS, and we&#8217;ll start at NBC Burbank.<\/p>\n<p>Newhart&#8217;s success in stand-up led to his own NBC variety show in 1961, &#8216;The Bob Newhart Show&#8217;. The show lasted only a single season, but earned Newhart a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and a Peabody Award. The Peabody Board cited him as:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; a person whose gentle satire and wry and irreverent wit waft a breath of fresh and bracing air through the stale and stuffy electronic corridors. A merry marauder, who looks less like St. George than a choirboy, Newhart has wounded, if not slain, many of the dragons that stalk our society. In a troubled and apprehensive world, Newhart has proved once again that laughter is the best medicine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the mid-1960s, Newhart appeared on The Dean Martin Show 24 times, and on The Ed Sullivan Show eight times. He appeared in a 1963 episode of &#8216;The Alfred Hitchcock Hour&#8217;, &#8220;How to Get Rid of Your Wife&#8221;, and on &#8216;The Judy Garland Show&#8217;. Newhart guest-hosted &#8216;The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson&#8217; 87 times, and hosted &#8216;Saturday Night Live&#8217; twice, 15 years apart (1980 and 1995).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to stand-up comedy, Newhart appeared as a character actor on &#8216;Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre&#8217;, &#8216;It&#8217;s Garry Shandling&#8217;s Show&#8217; and he appeared as Dr. Bob Hartley on &#8216;Murphy Brown&#8217;. He also appeared as himself on &#8216;The Simpsons&#8217;, and as a retired forensic pathologist on &#8216;NCIS&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Newhart guest-starred on three episodes of &#8216;ER&#8217;, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, and on &#8216;Desperate Housewives&#8217;. In 2013 he appeared on &#8216;Committed&#8217; and was in an episode of the sixth season of &#8216;The Big Bang Theory&#8217;, for which he was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award, and several episodes of the seventh season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Password&#8217; welcomed Bob many times, as did other game shows which are too numerous to mention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/687180147986204\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Newhart-And-Television...-In-the-photo-we-see-Bob-with-an-RCA-TK41-at-NBC-Burb\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/687187441318808\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newhart And Television&#8230; In the photo, we see Bob with an RCA TK41 at NBC Burbank. Notice the lens turret handle on the back of the camera is at a kind of 2 o&#8217;clock position which is an easy way to &#8220;cap&#8221; the camera to save the three very expensive IO tubes inside. 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