The Mary Tyler Moore Show 1970 - 1977

type: TVSeries

language: English

seasons: 7

episodes: 168

genre: comedy

Score: 6 / 10

The Mary Tyler Moore Show (also known simply as Mary Tyler Moore) is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns and starring actress Mary Tyler Moore. The show originally aired on CBS from September 19, 1970, to March 19, 1977. Moore portrayed Mary Richards, an unmarried, independent woman focused on her career as associate producer of a news show at the fictional local station WJM in Minneapolis. Ed Asner co-starred as Mary's boss Lou Grant, alongside Gavin MacLeod, Ted Knight, Georgia Engel, Betty White, Valerie Harper as friend and neighbor Rhoda Morgenstern, and Cloris Leachman as friend and landlady Phyllis Lindstrom.

Plot

Mary Richards (Moore) is a single woman who, at age 30, moves to Minneapolis on the heels of a broken engagement. She applies for a secretarial job at fictional television station WJM, but the position is already taken. She is instead offered the post of associate producer of the station's six o'clock news. She befriends tough but lovable boss Lou Grant (Ed Asner), newswriter Murray Slaughter (Gavin MacLeod), and buffoonish anchorman Ted Baxter (Ted Knight). Mary is later promoted to producer of the show, though her duties remain the same.

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contentLocation	Minnesota
genre	comedy
keywords	begin best friend betty ford broken engagement build chuckles bites the dust contempt of court equal pay first lady georgette franklin heart attack jail johnny carson list of other characters on the mary tyler moore show lou grant marital problem minneapolis moore murray slaughter phyllis lindstrom rhoda morgenstern riverside plaza running gags single woman sleeping pill sue ann nivens ted baxter
musicBy	Patrick Williams
publisher	CBS