“Those satires on American history Bob Newhart indulges in on his weekly NBC-TV series have drawn the ire and fire of letter-writers described by an NBC-TV source as ‘extreme right-wingers,’” explained Variety. “The writers take issue with Newhart’s irreverent fun in the satires and charge that he is ‘un-American’ and ‘must be Communist-tinged,’ the net executive said.”
