The brilliantly funny and surreal NEWHART follows DICK LOUDON, an author of do-it-yourself books who, along with his wife JOANNA, moves from New York City to a small town in rural Vermont to operate an inn. Though Dick is a mild-mannered, urbane guy, he's surrounded by a community of awfully strange people in a country town run by rules that elude him.
The Vermont town is populated by such as eccentric characters as GEORGE UTLEY, a dim handyman; MICHAEL HARRIS, the hyperactive producer of Dick's low-rated cable TV show "Vermont Today"; KIRK DEVANE, a chronic liar who owns the café across from Dick's inn; and LARRY, DARRYL and DARRYL, three very strange backwoodsmen who live in a shack.