Editing Newhart (section)

==Premise==
[[Bob Newhart]] plays Dick Loudon, an author of [[do-it-yourself]] and travel books. He and his wife Joanna move from [[New York City]] to a small town in rural [[Vermont]]{{efn|The town's name is never mentioned in the show, but context clues placing the town 59 miles from [[Montpelier, Vermont|Montpelier]] and within commuting distance of [[Dartmouth College]] lead many media sources to identify it as [[Norwich, Vermont|Norwich]].<ref>{{cite news| last=King| first=Susan| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100729522/the-los-angeles-times/| title=Bye Bye, Bob : There's No One Left at the Inn as 'Newhart' Signs Off| newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]| date=May 20, 1990| access-date=April 29, 2022}}</ref> Exterior shots were filmed at the [[Waybury Inn]] in [[East Middlebury, Vermont|East Middlebury]].}} to operate the 200-year-old Stratford Inn.

Dick and Joanna initially run the inn with the help of sweet-natured but simple handyman George Utley and Leslie Vanderkellen, a bright, cheerful [[Dartmouth College]] student and heiress who takes a job as a maid to find out what it is like to be "normal". Next door to the inn is the Minuteman Café, owned by Kirk Devane, a pathological liar. Leslie leaves before season two to continue her studies abroad, to be replaced by her cousin Stephanie, who, unlike Leslie, is vain, lazy, and spoiled. Brothers Larry, Darryl and Darryl take over the Minuteman Cafe when Kirk leaves after season two.

Near the end of season two, Dick becomes the host of a local television show, ''Vermont Today'', where he interviews an assortment of bizarre and colorful guests. His vapid, neurotic producer, Michael Harris, falls in love with Stephanie, their relationship providing a satire of 1980s excess.<ref>{{cite web |last1=St. James |first1=Emily |title=How the second season of Newhart proves sitcoms need time to learn |url=https://www.avclub.com/how-the-second-season-of-newhart-proves-sitcoms-need-ti-1798266087 |website=AV Club|date=February 12, 2014 }}</ref> The [[The Last Newhart|final episode]] of the series reveals that the entire series was a dream of Dr. Robert Hartley, Newhart's character in ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]''.