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.

(previously we had posted another first-run episode of The Bob Newhart Show - "You're Having My Hartley", which you can see here:    • CBS Network - The Bob Newhart Show - ...  )

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.

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