Bob Newhart had so many TV shows The Bob Newhart Show, Bob, Newhart that sometimes it's hard to keep them straight. But despite the similarly named series, Newhart's finale remains a singularly memorable episode. The show, about a Vermont inn owner and his wife, ran for eight years. But in the last episode, Newhart's character woke up next to his wife from the original sitcom The Bob Newhart Show, in which he had played a psychologist and realized that his life as an inn owner had been nothing but a dream.