Francis Lindquist, played by Roger Bowen, "The Arsonist," S2E6. Shoots a candy machine because it wouldn't give him a Butterfinger.

Charlie Prevette, played by Peter Hobbs, "The Strike: Part 1," S3E21. Holds up a liquor store when the police force stages a sickout, and is really mad when detectives pick him up anyway.

Mitchell Warner, played by Phillip Sterling, "The Spy," S5E15. Laid off CIA man creates a disturbance at the unemployment office.

Fred Bauer, played by J.J. Barry*, "Fog," S6E22. Arrested breaking into a Christian Science reading room on a foggy night.

Wanda LaMear, played by Florence Halop, "Stress Analyzer," S8E5. Assaults her assumed romantic rival with a blast from an apartment building fire hose.

*Often plays Arthur Duncan, who assaults the defenseless.

Going through the show's guest actors list it's really amazing the ones that have been on the The Bob Newhart Show.

Here's just some of my favorite perps.

--Jay Gerber
Mr. Craig / Howard Fuller /Lloyd Edelson / Howard Gab... (4 episodes, 1976-1981
Plays the angry man to perfection (frustrated building the Christmas gift toy, mad at what he perceives as garbage on TV...).

---Jack Dodson (Howard Sprague - TAGS)
Henry St. Martin / Mr. Vogel /Mr. Franklin (4 episodes, 1975-1980)
Arrested for soliciting a prostitute during the bicentennial celebration. Great line "Want to buy a button... how much ...$60."

--Ivor Francis (Dark Shadows)
Mr. Unger / Dr. Otto Travis /Professor Henry McDowell /... (5 episodes, 1976-1982)
Terrific playing intellectuals and professor types.

--Ray Stewart Darryl Driscoll (6 episodes, 1975-1982) and Jack DeLeon Marty Morrison (8 episodes, 1975-1982)
So many big laughs. Just watching Marty take his gloves off one finger at a time cracks me up.

---Kay Medford (The Dean Martin Show)
Lila Wakeman / Irene Schuman / Mrs. Mitzi Kamen (3 episodes, 1978-1980)
Deadpan straight faced terrific one-liners as the Ma & Pa porn shop owners.

--Paula Shaw (TBNS)
Paula Capshaw(3 episodes, 1976-1977)
Hooker

--Michael Lombard
Kenneth Pryor / Joseph M. Loftis / Walter Elkins / Stanf... (4 episodes, 1978-1982)
Brilliant as the stock broker turned street beggar.

--Oliver Clark (TBNS)
Vern Bidell / Carl Ebling /Charles Yusick / Dr. Richard ... (6 episodes, 1975-1982)
Uses his Mr Heard character when he brings a gun to get his brother to break out of the precinct jail. Then the two brothers take the precinct hostage.

---Peter Hobbs
Phillip Brauer / Charlie Prevette / Roy McManus (7 episodes, 1977-1980)
I really enjoy his work on the series. Usually plays a lunatic out of control madman. Totally opposite of his straight laced school principal, or PTA member on TAGS or MRFD.

Jack Dodson

Ivor Francis


Jack Dodson's Bicentennial john would have been my next pick.

Dodson and Francis bored me to tears just a few years before, as Howard Sprague and Mr. Dragen on Room 222. Shockingly funnier on Barney Miller.

Jack Bernardi as Able Kleiner (bounty hunter) in Appendicitis, S4E14, and Mr. Gilman (response time checker) in Vacation, S6E3.

Jack Bernardi as Able Kleiner (bounty hunter) in Appendicitis, S4E14, and Mr. Gilman (response time checker) in Vacation, S6E3.
Jack Bernardi is hilarious as a restaurant waiter in multiple The Bob Newhart Show episodes.