The Brady Bunch: How to Succeed in Business?.The Bob Newhart Show: You Can't Win 'Em All.The Brady Bunch: The Great Earring Caper.The Bob Newhart Show: Who's Been Sleeping on My Co.Man About the House: And Mother Makes Four.Man About the House: Some Enchanted Evening.Man About the House: And Then There Were Two.Sigmund and the Sea Monsters: The Monster Who Came.Man About the House: No Children, No Dogs.The Brady Bunch: Snow White and the Seven Bradys.The Brady Kids: Who Believes in Ghosts?.The Bob Newhart Show: Somebody Down Here Likes Me.The Bob Newhart Show: Emily in for Carol.The Bob Newhart Show: Have You Met Miss Dietz?.M*A*S*H: L.I.P (Local Indigenous Personnel).The Bob Newhart Show: Mister Emily Hartley.The Bob Newhart Show: Mutiny on the Hartley.The Bob Newhart Show: I'm Okay, You're Okay, So Wh.The Bob Newhart Show: Fit, Fat and Forty-One.The Bob Newhart Show: My Wife Belongs to Daddy.The Bob Newhart Show: I'm Dreaming of a Slight Chr.The Bob Newhart Show: The Modernization of Emily.After School Specials: Pssst! Hammerman's After Yo.The Bob Newhart Show: The Jobless Corps.Lesley Evans plays Nurse Bryan, her first of three nurses that season. Linda Meiklejohn (in her last appearance as Henry's girlfriend Leslie Scorch), Bobbie Mitchell (previously Mason, here Marshall), and Herb Voland (Clayton) also return. Nakahara was 23 in '73, one of the younger members of the cast. She'd go on to do an impressive 166 more episodes, including some where she'd have more to do than poor Ginger (Odessa Cleveland, returning, getting one line here I think) ever got. She's not credited, but Kellye Nakahara makes her debut as Lt. Note that while Jamie Farr is still listed in the closing rather than opening credits, Klinger is one of the people whom we are told to tune in to see each week, and he has a couple scenes (and fetching outfits).

We know that the visiting psychiatrist will decide that, yes, this team is crazy but they do good work, and craziness is a survival mechanism. ( Bridget Loves Bernie had the 8:30 spot the previous year, but obviously would never be regarded as a classic sitcom by anyone.) This season-opener does a nice job of (re)introducing the characters and set-up. CBS shifted M*A*S*H over to what would be a winning Saturday night line-up, with this series that performed poorly in its first year now happily sandwiched between All in the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, with The Bob Newhart Show at 9:30.

Mash divided we stand