His numerous television appearances include his own series Blue Light, his specials An Hour with Robert Goulet, The Robert Goulet Special, The Bob Goulet Special-Staring Robert Goulet as well as The Name Of the Game, Police Story, Cannon, Dream Merchants, Fantasy Island, Make My Day, In the Heat Of The Night, The Simpson's (Radio Mercury Gold Award - Humor), Based On An Untrue Story, Burke's Law, Get Smart, ESPN College Basketball Campaigns, Disney's Recess, George and Leo, Just Shoot Me, Two Guys And A Girl, Nikki and My Favorite Broadway, Las Vegas, King Of Queens. He has recorded over 60 best-selling albums, and his film credits range from the animated feature film Gay Purr-ee co-starring the voice of Judy Garland to Honeymoon Hotel, I'd Rather Be Rich, I Deal In Danger, Underground, Atlantic City, Beetlejuice, Scrooged, Naked Gun 2 ½ , Mr. Wrong,, The Last Producer, G-Men From Hell and Toy Story II and Disney's animated feature Recess.

Mr. Goulet is a spokesman for the American Cancer Society and periodically gives lectures on Cancer Awareness, Prevention and Early Detection. He is a father of three children; sons Christopher and Michael, and daughter Nicolette, who is the mother of his grandchildren, Jordan Gerard and Solange. He married Macedonian-Yugoslavian-born Vera Chochorovska Novak in 1982. Vera runs their companies and is also his business manager.

On September 30, 2007, Goulet was hospitalized in Las Vegas, where he was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, "a rare but rapidly progressive and potentially fatal condition." On October 13, 2007, he was transferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after it was determined he "would not survive without an emergency lung transplant."

Goulet died on October 30, 2007, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, while awaiting a lung transplant. He was cremated. Goulet was less than a month shy of his 74th birthday.