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Bob Newhart: The Button-Down Mind on TV
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Author
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Bob Newhart.
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Publisher
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Collectors' Choice
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Format
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1 audio CD
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ISBN
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2045
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Pages/Publication Date
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33 mins/2009
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Daedalus Item Code
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20109
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This item is not available.
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Description
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Did you know there was another Bob Newhart Show besides the one that ran for seven years in the 1970s? It was different from its namesake in two ways: it was a comedy/sketch variety show instead of a sitcom, and it totally flopped (even though the show won a Peabody Award). Bob Newhart wrote some truly inspired material for that short-lived program, which, when released on this 1962 album, didn't flop at all but was a major chart success. It includes "Introducing Tobacco to Civilization," in which Bob places a call to Sir Walter Raleigh. Here too, Newhart imagines how to tell a friend that his precious pet dog is a vicious monster, a speculation on chariot manufacturers in ancient Rome operating like modern car companies, and amateur bomb defusing.
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