Newhart
The Last Newhart
TV Flash files “The Last Newhart” as a desk essential hour — Newhart (1982–1990) on CBS, season 8, episode 24, aired 1990-05-21, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S08E24: listed hour 184 of 184 in the Newhart guide, last listed hour of season 8. It aired 1990-05-21 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “My Husband, My Peasant” (S08E23). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “The Last Newhart”. The Last Newhart is the gold-standard closer stunt. Watch it; do not let anyone tell you the button. Still the series-finale to beat.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Japanese investors buy everything in town except the Stratford Inn and convert the town into a giant golf course.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Last Newhart sit in the Newhart guide?
S08E24 is listed hour 184 of 184 — last listed hour of season 8, season 8 episode 24.
When did Newhart S08E24 air?
The Last Newhart aired 1990-05-21 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Is this the same as The Bob Newhart Show?
No. Different premise, different decade. The Vermont inn is the 1982–1990 series. The finale playfully links them — which is why you should not hear the ending first.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Newhart's second masterpiece of timing: a Vermont inn, Mary Frann, Tom Poston, and Hi, I'm Larry; this is my brother Darryl; this is my other brother Darryl. Small-town ensemble comedy at refined volume, distinct from the psychologist sitcom. Plus a finale you want spoiled only by watching it — still the gold-standard series-closer stunt.
So about the inn: the group chat will spoil the button if you let it. (I said spoiler-free. For this one I am actually trying.) CBS's Newhart (1982–1990) checks Bob Newhart into Vermont as Dick Loudon and finds the locals are the occupancy crisis. Mary Frann, Tom Poston, Julia Duffy, Peter Scolari, a parade of small-town eccentrics — including Hi, I'm Larry; this is my brother Darryl; this is my other brother Darryl. Distinct from the 1970s psychologist sitcom The Bob Newhart Show. This one is innkeeping as comic…
Filed against
- Bob Newhart as Dick Loudon
Bob Newhart’s Dr. Bob Hartley made The Bob Newhart Show a buttoned-up climate — 1970s catalog MTM quiet, phone-bit timing, lunatics around a psychologist. Newhart later moved the stammer to a Vermont inn and stole the finale. TV Flash…
- Mary Frann as Joanna Loudon
Mary Frann kept the inn civil as Joanna Loudon on Newhart — Bob’s second masterpiece of timing, a Vermont inn, Tom Poston, and Hi, I’m Larry; this is my brother Darryl; this is my other brother Darryl. Small-town ensemble at refined…
- Tom Poston as George Utley
Tom Poston’s panelist sweat helped To Tell the Truth mint “will the real blank please stand up” — impostor manners, celebrity guessing, a lie detector with a handshake — then innkept Newhart as Vermont ensemble comedy at refined volume,…
- Julia Duffy as Stephanie Vanderkellen
Julia Duffy’s Stephanie Vanderkellen made Newhart a spoiled weather system — Vermont inn, Mary Frann, Tom Poston, and Hi, I’m Larry; this is my brother Darryl; this is my other brother Darryl. Small-town ensemble comedy at refined volume,…
- Peter Scolari as Michael Harris
Peter Scolari played Michael Harris on Newhart, Bob Newhart’s 1980s second masterpiece of timing — a Vermont inn, Mary Frann, Tom Poston, and Hi, I’m Larry; this is my brother Darryl; this is my other brother Darryl. Small-town ensemble…