Newhart is the name of a television sitcom that aired on the CBS Network from 1982 to 1990.

The show, set in Vermont, starred comedian Bob Newhart as Dick Loudon, an author, local television talk show host, and inn keeper. Mary Frann portrayed Loudon's wife, Joanna. The show also featured Tom Poston as handyman George Utley, Peter Scolari as Loudon's television producer Michael Harris, and Julia Duffy as maid Stephanie Vanderkellen. Jennifer Holmes also starred in the first season.

In the later seasons, actors William Sanderson , Tony Papenfuss , and John Voldstad joined the cast and became three of the most popular characters on the show, Larry, Darryl and Darryl. The two Darryls never spoke (until the show's final episode), and Larry would introduce them every time they entered a room with "Hi, I'm Larry, and this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl".

(The characters of Larry, Darryl, and Darryl also appear in various episodes of the television series Coach, which was created by the creator of Newhart, Barry Kemp .)

The show was produced by David Mirkin, (who also wrote nine episodes, and directed four), Bob Bendetson , Sheldon Bull , Barton Dean , Mark Egan , Stephen C. Grossman , Barry Kemp, Michael Loman , Richard Rosenstock , Mark Solomon , Roy Teicher , Dan Wilcox , Douglas Wyman , and Shelley Zellman .

The series had one of the most memorable final episodes in television history. At the end of the final show, Dick is hit in the head with a golf ball; he falls to the floor and the picture goes black. A light is turned on and the viewer sees Bob Newhart waking up in bed, not as Dick Loudon in Vermont but as Chicago psychologist Bob Hartley, Newhart's character on the 1970s series The Bob Newhart Show. Hartley reaches over to wake up his sleeping wife, and she turns out to be Emily Hartley (portrayed by Suzanne Pleshette). Bob then begins to tell Emily about the strange dream that he just had about being a Vermont innkeeper.

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