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The first season of this show was good. I'd rate it as 3.5 stars if Amazon let us use half stars. It's biggest problem in the first season was using a character named Kirk. Ultimately you were supposed to like him but that never happened. He was given too many problems and also was not funny. Bob Newhart was great, of course. We got George the Handyman and then Larry and the Darryls showed up (as very minor characters). Michael, Stephanie, the tv show, etc., were all to come in future seasons. The last season is as weak as this first one with the golden shows being the ones inbetween.
Any Bob Newhart is better than no Bob Newhart though. Bob is great on the show from episode one to the end. He never disappoints. I am a big fan of his. If you are too, then you can't go wrong. He plays an Innkeeper in Vermont with his wife JoAnna. They slowly are assimilated into a New England town of characters. Newhart is everyone's comic foil. He and Poston worked together in his prior series so they are an old "couple" at this point and gel from the start. His wife is good, not as good as Suzanne Pleshette was in his earlier show but she does ok. Newhart also writes do-it-yourself books and he is quite comedic about these as well.
I would say the creators probably saw John Cleese's FAWLTY TOWERS before doing this show. However, Newhart is a very different comedian than Cleese so it had to be tailored to suit him. Thus, the only resemblance is that they are both married innkeepers doing a sitcom set in their Inns.
Newhart - The Complete First Season Overview
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Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 26-FEB-2008
Media Type: DVD
One of my favourite TV shows... - Andrew Griffin - Canada
One of my favourite TV shows. Ever. The only surprise was Kirk--I don't remember him coming across as such a jerk so often. No wonder they swapped him out for the Daryls later on. Waiting on Season 2...
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