CBS Network - The Bob Newhart Show - 'Happy Trails to You'- KDFW-TV (Complete Broadcast, 4/1/1978) 📺

Here's a complete broadcast of the final first-run episode (series finale) of The Bob Newhart Show, "Happy Trails to You" (in which he ends his practice in Chicago and prepares to relocate to Oregon to become a professor at a small college), as broadcast in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, over KDFW Channel 4. A little moderately sized bonus follows.

Includes:

Station ID, with look inside newsroom

Show opening

Commercials for:

Geritol

Visa credit card

Episode Act I

Commercials for:

Maytag Dishwasher (with Jesse White)

Pringle's Extra Ripple Potato Chips

Episode Act II

Promo for CBS: On the Air (voiceover by Dick Tufeld)

The Bob Newhart Show bumper

Commercials for:

American Bankers Association - A Full Service Bank (with Edmund Gilbert)

Bufferin analgesic

Closing credits (with voiceover promo for CBS: On the Air by Pat Connell); during which we see Bob and his cast greeting studio audience at end, before MTM logo appears

Promo for Rhoda and On Our Own for Sunday, followed by CBS 'Eye-D in 3-D' (voiceover by Pat Connell)

Commercials for:

First National Bank in Dallas

March of Dimes Super Walk '78 Walkathon, for April 8th (with John Fitzgerald and Larry Cole of Dallas Cowboys)

Station ID slide, with PSA for Texas Commission on the Arts and Humanities - "The Arts Are for Everyone"

Now for the bonus you've all been waiting for:

Notice for premiere one week from this evening of The Ted Knight Show and Another Day (voiceover by Dick Tufeld)

A CBS Special Presentation animated ID

First 12 minutes of CBS: On the Air, featuring (in order of first appearance) Carol Burnett, dancers in cowboy and clown outfits, Art Carney, Isabel Sanford, Tony Randall, Sherman Hemsley, Mary Tyler Moore, and Carroll O'Connor for the open (voiceover by Dick Tufeld)

Sponsor billboard for Buick and Johnson & Johnson (voiceover by Dick Tufeld)

Commercials for:

Johnson's Baby Powder

Extra Strength Tylenol (with Mrs. Pat Bartholemeu on hidden camera) (voiceover by Joel Crager)

In Segment 2, Walter Cronkite shows brief looks at CBS's various studios and offices in New York and Hollywood, before zeroing in on CBS Studio Center where Mary and Carroll examine the various programs filmed there over the years, leading off with Gunsmoke (a clip of John Wayne introducing the TV series premiere in 1955 is midway when recording ends)

This aired on local Dallas-Fort Worth TV on Saturday, April 1st 1978 during the 7:00pm to 7:42pm timeframe.

About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:

[rigid]

Biggest crush on Suzanne Pleshette back in the day. What a beauty she was. RIP . Thank you for preserving original tv broadcasts.

[faithrussert]

This was so wonderful to watch, I didn't want it to end! The show, the ads, and part of the CBS special!!!! 😁👏👏💕

[Wisdom-Nuggets-Tid-Bits]

The best written most intelligent comedy of ALL time!!! And the funniest!!! I miss those times.

[videoxify]

Bob Newhart has to be one of the most beloved living comedians

[Krazedkat]

Those were the days of great television. Bob Newhart, Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, Perry Mason, Twilight Zone, Carol Burnett, Johnny Carson, Hollywood Squares, Price is Right, Happy Days, Sanford and Son, Mash, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Lucille Ball, The Odd Couple, Little House on the Prairie, Good Times, Dallas, The Brady Bunch, Love American Style, Taxi, WKRP in Cincinnati and the list goes on and on. You don't fnd TV like that today, especially when it comes to late night TV. I am blessed to have been born in the 60's so I could watch all these shows during my youth and right up into adulthood. I still watch them today on MeTV and YouTube. My favorite show was Rockford files.

[rawrvintageisclassic]

That's pretty cool that we get to see a snippet of CBS On the Air after finishing off a great series finale. Thanks for sharing!

[commentingcollector]

Saw Bob do his stand up show in MPLS about 7 years ago- Maybe it was the Geritol but even in his mid 80’s his timing was precise and he absolutely killed it that night. His dry deadpan humor is timeless- a true legend!
Thanks Fuzzy for the Christmas present, looking forward to see what long lost TV gems you reveal in ‘23.

[Foxonian]

I remember watching this on my little 12" b/w tv that I had gotten as a Christmas gift a few months before. I was 12 years old and this was very bittersweet for me since I liked the show so much.

[tammylewis]

RIP Bob. Thank you for the memories.😢 This episode title says it all.

[hardlines]

Thank you for showing this wonderful show with the wonderful commercials I wish I can go back in time and live in it again now!

[andrewpollard_]

I ❤️ _The Bob Newhart Show_, so it's great to watch the finale first-run (and _CBS: On The Air_ Saturday). Thank you again, FuzzyMemories & Happy Holidays.

[BeliaLastes]

Loved this show and still do even now, and the commercials were better back then everything was better back then. Thank you for posting this video ☺️❤️

[taffykins]

Loved this show! Thanks for the upload! 👍👍

[THEAdmiralXizor]

Thanks for including the commercials! What a time capsule.

[kengeorgejones]

Thanks so much. Happy New Year to you. Fascinating to see this celebration special alongside promos for so many shows that were in their dying days or were just DOA. Still don't know how they went wrong with a Ted Knight show.

[DerrickLeeDLA]

That CBS 3-D ID from 1978 looks so cool.

[hollykinkade]

Brian Dennehy was in the Maytag commercial.

[georgediederich]

Thanks for posting. One of the best shows.

[michellepost]

I grew up watching this, among several other vintage tv shows. When this last ep was made, I was a junior. Seems like ages ago. I liked those ads of tv shows during 1970s, always sounded like same announcer.

[michaelprenez-isbell]

Thanks, the show in context is even better.