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On Oct. 25, 1982, at 9:30 p.m. EDT, 40 years ago tonight, the sitcom “Newhart” debuted on CBS. And for eight increasingly wacky seasons, we enjoyed the button-down-minded Dick Loudon (Bob Newhart) cope with the shenanigans all around him at the Vermont country inn he owned with his wife, Joanna, played by Mary Frann.

Needless to say, “Newhart” was my introduction, as it were, to Vermont, even if the bucolic opening-credit vistas that roll before us as Henry Mancini’s theme music plays are said to be from New Hampshire, left over from the film “On Golden Pond,” released the prior year.

The inn, however, is the real deal.

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Well, at least the exterior. Newhart’s location scouts settled on the Waybury Inn, located on the outskirts of Middlebury, Vermont, to serve as the setting for the Stratford Inn. It’s changed a bit over the years — taller trees, new paint job, accessible ramp out front — but it’s still recognizably the famous inn from the show.

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Back in August, on a road trip through Vermont, my friends and I stopped here briefly to check in

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