Bob Newhart returns to the TV as Dick Loudon, as he and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today."
After Joanna falls through the ice at the River Day Festival, she blames Dick for all the bad things in her life.
The Minuteman is shut down, so Dick and the gang try to help Kirk bring it up to code.
Dick gets extremely depressed after he finds out that the Stratford Inn cannot be declared a historic landmark.
Kirk is upset when Leslie's high school sweetheart returns from exotic travels and asks for her hand in marriage.
Dick reads the work of an aspiring writer, and praises it to avoid hurting her feelings; the writer's husband decides to quit his job so that she can write full time, and Dick tries to find her an agent before they run out of money.
Kirk tries to keep 24 guests who have been snowed-in on Christmas Eve entertained while Dick tries to find somewhere for Joseph to stay with his pregnant wife.
A US senator's wife holds a press conference at the inn to announce that she is divorcing her husband because he is inattentive.
Leslie's dream of being a skier is jeopardized after Dick falls on her.
George is disappointed to find that an old flame is nothing like he remembers.
Dick and Joanna are upset when their friends come to visit and treat them as innkeepers.
Leslie's cousin comes to visit before her wedding, and finds she is attracted to Kirk.
Manny Silver visits and reminds Dick that he was the one who started his writing career.
Dick and Joanna help out at the café when Kirk has to go to the hospital.
Dick, Kirk and George go to Boston to see a Celtics game, but Dick loses his pass.
Kirk's café is robbed, but his insurance company refuses to believe his claim.
George claims to have spotted a UFO and becomes the laughingstock of the town.
Joanna takes a job at a travel agency after Dick insults her by calling her a homebody.
Kirk finally gets a date with Leslie, but his grandmother visits on the same night.
Dick tries to make amends with Chester and Jim after he beats them at golf.
Dick goes to New York to research a potential biography. Stephanie is hired as a new maid.
Erica Chase tries to seduce Dick; Stephanie's father tries to take her home with him.
Stephanie's husband attempts to find out why she left him.
Joanna breaks tradition at a potluck dinner.
A play Dick wrote gets used in a local production, and Joanna is cast as Joanna's Mother.
Joanna serves Thanksgiving dinner to 100 people; rain ruins the Thanksgiving parade.
Stephanie gets lots in a snowstorm and ends up at Darryl's house.
Dick has a deadline looming, but he is too distracted to get any work done.
Kirk sets out to find the perfect girlfriend.
Kirk meets the girl of his dreams, but he isn't sure how he feels about her profession.
Dick unleashes his temper when a professor hits on Joanna at a poetry reading.
Stephanie's old boyfriend and best friend stay at the inn; Kirk has a dinner party.
George becomes a fireman to improve his image but he loses the keys to the fire truck.
Dick hosts a literary discussion program on television, but his first show is a disaster.
Kirk isn't sure if he should propose to Cindy, so he asks Dick and George for help.
A fast food chain plans to open in town, and Kirk is furious.
Kirk is excited that he is marrying Cindy, but he faints during the ceremony.
Kirk's grandmother loans him her car for his honeymoon, but the police think it's stolen.
George's club rejects Dick's application for membership; Kirk and Cindy fight.
Dick hosts a contest for the world's smallest horse on his television program.
Stephanie leaves the inn in the hands of a guest and sneaks off to a beauty pageant.
Dick and Joanna plan a birthday party for George with all of his old army buddies.
Kirk and Cindy decide to move away, leaving Dick to sell the rundown diner.
Joanna goes to New York to meet a former boyfriend; a trumpet player plays at the inn.
Dick, George, Chester, Jim and Michael get stranded while duck hunting.
Larry misinterprets a comment from Stephanie and makes her the object of his undying love.
George considers leaving the inn when Dick's jokes humiliate him at a Beaver Lodge.
Stephanie can't bring herself to tell Dick how many parking tickets she has had.
Michael can't bring himself to fire Stephanie after hiring her as WPIV's receptionist.
Dick is hounded by an obsessive fan who moves into the inn and starts a fan club.
A farmer accuses Dick of plagiarizing his work.
George's girlfriend starts talking about marriage; Stephanie takes her driver's test.
Dick and Joanna experience 'creative differences' while working on a collaboration.
George saves two boys from drowning and becomes a hero.
The Loudons go head-to-head with Larry and the boys after Dick calls Animal Control.
Dick and Joanna spar after Dick is riddled with doubts about having Joanna on his show.
Stephanie falls for a television executive, forcing her to choose between him and Michael.
Stephanie comes for a visit and Michael is surprised by how spoiled she has become.
Joanna takes on a huge project when she agrees to spruce up Larry, Darryl and Darryl.
An unemployed Michael falls to pieces and Dick is exasperated as his replacement.
Dick and Harley Estin renovate the garage so it looks like it did when it was built.
Dick and Joanna catch the man who has been selling swamp grave plots.
Darryl runs off after winning a contest; Joanna puts Christmas decorations up at the inn.
Dick is inspired to jazz up his show in order to secure a VITA nomination.
Dick fills in for the sick host of a children's program, and gets the show cancelled.
Michael and Stephanie break up when Michael realizes he's tired of her demanding ways.
Japanese investors buy everything in town except the Stratford Inn and convert the town into a giant golf course.
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