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Originally Posted by cd637299
Hi
Season 1 of TBNS had neighbor Margaret. Was the character supposed to develop somehow?...
...They already had Howard as a neighbor. Maybe that’s all they wanted later on. BTW did Howard ever talk to Margaret at all? I cannot remember—was Margaret married?
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Margaret was married to Arthur, played by William Redfield. I think he was only in one scene of one episode. Redfield later returned as Howard's brother, Warden Gordon Borden.
I'm just guessing, but the Bob Newhart Show was structured a lot like The Mary Tyler Moore Show. They may have just started out with two neighbors because MTM had Rhoda and Phyllis, and then decided to grow Howard and drop Margaret.