The Mary Tyler Moore Show
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.
Cast
- Alex Rocco
- Anthony Holland
- Arlene Golonka
- Barbara Colby
- Bernie Kopell
- Betty White
- Bill Quinn
- Bob Dishy
- Bradford Dillman
- Bruce Kirby
- Burton Hill Mustin
- Cloris Leachman
- Connie Sawyer
- Darlene Conley
- David Groh
- David Huddleston
- David White
- Davis Roberts
- Doris Roberts
- Ed Asner
- Ed Flanders
- Eric Braeden
- Gail Strickland
- Gavan O'Herlihy
- Gavin MacLeod
- Georgia Engel
- Greg Mullavey
- Ian Wolfe
- Isabel Sanford
- Jack Riley
- James Luisi
- Janis Paige
- Jerry Van Dyke
- John Amos
- John Ritter
- John Saxon
- Joseph Campanella
- Kathleen O'Malley
- Larry Gelman
- Laurence Luckinbill
- Lee Montgomery
- Leslie Graves
- Liam Dunn
- Lurene Tuttle
- Mackenzie Phillips
- Mary Jackson
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Michael Callan
- Nanette Fabray
- Ned Glass
- Pat Carroll
- Pat Priest
- Penny Marshall
- Pippa Scott
- Richard Kline
- Richard Libertini
- Robert Hogan
- Sheree North
- Sidney Clute
- Slim Pickens
- Steven Franken
- Ted Knight
- Valerie Harper
- Yvonne Wilder