Five favorite perps

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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.

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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.

[Alan Brady's Hair]

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.

[Alan Brady's Hair]

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

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Originally Posted by Alan Brady's Hair

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.