The Mary Tyler Moore Show was one of the most literate, realistic, and enduring situation comedies of the 1970s. Mary Richards was the idealized single career woman. She had come to Minneapolis after breaking up with a man she had been dating for four years. Ambitious, and looking for new friends, she moved into an older apartment building and went to work as an assistant producer of the local news show on television station WJM-TV. In her early 30s, Mary symbolized the independent woman of the…
The Mary Tyler Moore Show was one of the most literate, realistic, and enduring situation comedies of the 1970s. Mary Richards was the idealized single career woman. She had come to Minneapolis after breaking up with a man she had been dating for four years. Ambitious, and looking for new friends, she moved into an older apartment building and went to work as an assistant producer of the local news show on television station WJM-TV. In her early 30s, Mary symbolized the independent woman of the…
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Seasons (7)
Season 1
19 Sep 1970 – 6 Mar 1971 · 24 episodes
1Love is All Around19 Sep 1970
2Today I Am a Ma'am26 Sep 1970
3Bess, You is My Daughter Now3 Oct 1970
4Divorce Isn't Everything10 Oct 1970
5Keep Your Guard Up17 Oct 1970
6Support Your Local Mother24 Oct 1970
7Toulousse-Lautrec is One of My Favorite Artists31 Oct 1970
8The Snow Must Go On7 Nov 1970
9Bob & Rhoda & Teddy & Mary14 Nov 1970
10Assistant Wanted, Female21 Nov 1970
111040 or Fight28 Nov 1970
12Anchorman Overboard5 Dec 1970
13He's All Yours12 Dec 1970
14Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid II19 Dec 1970
15Howard's Girl2 Jan 1971
16Party is Such Sweet Sorrow9 Jan 1971
17Just a Lunch16 Jan 1971
18Second Story Story23 Jan 1971
19We Closed in Minneapolis30 Jan 1971
20Hi!6 Feb 1971
21The Boss Isn't Coming to Dinner13 Feb 1971
22A Friend in Deed20 Feb 1971
23Smokey the Bear Wants You27 Feb 1971
24The 45-Year-Old Man6 Mar 1971
Season 2
18 Sep 1971 – 4 Mar 1972 · 24 episodes
1The Birds . . . and . . . um . . . Bees18 Sep 1971
2I Am Curious Cooper25 Sep 1971
3He's No Heavy . . . He's My Brother2 Oct 1971
4Room 2239 Oct 1971
5A Girl's Best Mother is Not Her Friend16 Oct 1971
6Cover Boy23 Oct 1971
7Didn't You Used to Be . . . Wait . . . Don't Tell Me30 Oct 1971
8Thoroughly Unmilitant Mary6 Nov 1971
9And Now, Sitting in for Ted Baxter13 Nov 1971
10Don't Break the Chain20 Nov 1971
11The Six-and-a-Half-Year Itch27 Nov 1971
12. . . Is a Friend in Need4 Dec 1971
13The Square-Shaped Room11 Dec 1971
14Ted Over Heels18 Dec 1971
15The Five-Minute Dress1 Jan 1972
16Feeb8 Jan 1972
17The Slaughter Affair15 Jan 1972
18Baby Sit-Com22 Jan 1972
19More Than Neighbors29 Jan 1972
20The Care and Feeding of Parents5 Feb 1972
21Where There's Smoke, There's Rhoda12 Feb 1972
22You Certainly Are a Big Boy19 Feb 1972
23Some of My Best Friends Are Rhoda26 Feb 1972
24His Two Right Arms4 Mar 1972
Season 3
16 Sep 1972 – 3 Mar 1973 · 24 episodes
1The Good-Time News16 Sep 1972
2What is Mary Richards Really Like?23 Sep 1972
3Who's in Charge Here?30 Sep 1972
4Enter Rhoda's Parents7 Oct 1972
5It's Whether You Win or Lose14 Oct 1972
6Rhoda the Beautiful21 Oct 1972
7Just Around the Corner28 Oct 1972
8But Seriously, Folks4 Nov 1972
9Farmer Ted and the News11 Nov 1972
10Have I Found a Guy for You18 Nov 1972
11You've Got a Friend25 Nov 1972
12It Was Fascination, I Know2 Dec 1972
13Operation: Lou9 Dec 1972
14Rhoda Morgenstern: Minneapolis to New York16 Dec 1972
15The Courtship of Mary's Father's Daughter23 Dec 1972
16Lou's Place6 Jan 1973
17My Brother's Keeper13 Jan 1973
18The Georgette Story20 Jan 1973
19Romeo and Mary27 Jan 1973
20What Do You Do When the Boss Says, "I Love You"?3 Feb 1973
21Murray Faces Life10 Feb 1973
22Remembrance of Things Past17 Feb 1973
23Put on a Happy Face24 Feb 1973
24Mary Richards and the Incredible Plant Lady3 Mar 1973
Season 4
15 Sep 1973 – 2 Mar 1974 · 24 episodes
1The Lars Affair15 Sep 1973
2Angels in the Snow22 Sep 1973
3Rhoda's Sister Gets Married29 Sep 1973
4The Lou and Edie Story6 Oct 1973
5Hi There, Sports Fans13 Oct 1973
6Father's Day20 Oct 1973
7Son of "But Seriously, Folks"27 Oct 1973
8Lou's First Date3 Nov 1973
9Love Blooms at Hemples10 Nov 1973
10The Dinner Party17 Nov 1973
11Just Friends24 Nov 1973
12We Want Baxter1 Dec 1973
13I Gave at the Office8 Dec 1973
14Almost a Nun's Story15 Dec 1973
15Happy Birthday, Lou!22 Dec 1973
16WJM Tries Harder5 Jan 1974
17Cottage for Sale12 Jan 1974
18The Co-Producers19 Jan 1974
19Best of Enemies26 Jan 1974
20Better Late . . . That's a Pun . . . Than Never2 Feb 1974
21Ted Baxter Meets Walter Cronkite9 Feb 1974
22Lou's Second Date16 Feb 1974
23Two Wrongs Don't Make a Writer23 Feb 1974
24I Was a Single for WJM2 Mar 1974
Season 5
14 Sep 1974 – 8 Mar 1975 · 24 episodes
1Will Mary Richards Go to Jail?14 Sep 1974
2Not Just Another Pretty Face21 Sep 1974
3You Sometimes Hurt the One You Hate28 Sep 1974
4Lou and That Woman5 Oct 1974
5The Outsider12 Oct 1974
6I Love a Piano19 Oct 1974
7A New Sue Ann26 Oct 1974
8Menage-a-Phyllis2 Nov 1974
9Not a Christmas Story9 Nov 1974
10What Are Friends For?16 Nov 1974
11A Boy's Best Friend23 Nov 1974
12A Son for Murray30 Nov 1974
13Neighbors7 Dec 1974
14A Girl Like Mary14 Dec 1974
15An Affair to Forget21 Dec 1974
16Mary Richards: Producer4 Jan 1975
17The System11 Jan 1975
18Phyllis Whips Inflation18 Jan 1975
19The Shame of the Cities25 Jan 1975
20Marriage Minneapolis Style1 Feb 1975
21You Try to Be a Nice Guy8 Feb 1975
22You Can't Lose 'em All15 Feb 1975
23Ted Baxter's Famous Broadcasters' School22 Feb 1975
24Anyone Who Hates Kids and Dogs8 Mar 1975
Season 6
13 Sep 1975 – 6 Mar 1976 · 24 episodes
1Edie Gets Married13 Sep 1975
2Mary Moves Out20 Sep 1975
3Mary's Father27 Sep 1975
4Murray in Love4 Oct 1975
5Ted's Moment of Glory11 Oct 1975
6Mary's Aunt18 Oct 1975
7Chuckles Bites the Dust25 Oct 1975
8Mary's Delinquent1 Nov 1975
9Ted's Wedding8 Nov 1975
10Lou Douses an Old Flame15 Nov 1975
11Mary Richards Falls in Love22 Nov 1975
12Ted's Tax Refund29 Nov 1975
13The Happy Homemaker Takes Lou Home6 Dec 1975
14One Boyfriend Too Many13 Dec 1975
15What Do You Want to Do When You Produce?20 Dec 1975