The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970)
30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with Phyllis who rents her a room, and meets her upstairs neighbor and new best friend Rhoda. Mary unexpectedly lands a job as associate producer at the TV station WJM, where she works alongside her bristly boss, Lou; the comical newswriter, Murray; and the newscast's often-incompetent anchor, Ted.
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Episode 1 - Will Mary Richards Go to Jail?
Release Date: 1974-09-14Mary refuses to reveal a news source for a story she produced and has to spend a night in jail.
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Episode 2 - Not Just Another Pretty Face
Release Date: 1974-09-21Mary dates a man with whom she has nothing in common and becomes concerned that their relationship is superficial.
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Episode 3 - You Sometimes Hurt the One You Hate
Release Date: 1974-09-28Lou finally loses his temper with Ted when he endorses a political candidate on The Six O'clock News and throws him through the office doors. Lou feels guilty, and Ted takes advantage of him.
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Episode 4 - Lou and That Woman
Release Date: 1974-10-05Lou begins seeing a cocktail lounge singer but becomes uncomfortable about her past.
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Episode 5 - The Outsider
Release Date: 1974-10-12WJM-TV hires a young business consultant, who demands certain changes for The Six O'clock News, offending every member of the news team.
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Episode 6 - I Love a Piano
Release Date: 1974-10-19Murray meets an attractive woman at one of Mary's parties and considers having an affair. On the pretext of buying her old piano, he goes to see her.
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Episode 7 - A New Sue Ann
Release Date: 1974-10-26A young fan, Gloria, persuades Sue Ann to hire her for The Happy Homemaker. Sue Ann is less than pleased when Gloria plays up to the station manager and gets a larger role on the show at the expense of her own.
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Episode 8 - Menage-a-Phyllis
Release Date: 1974-11-02Phyllis dates a man on a platonic basis, but he is attracted more to Mary and begins seeing her.
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Episode 9 - Not a Christmas Story
Release Date: 1974-11-09The entire newsroom staff is arguing with each other, and when they are trapped at the office due to bad weather, Sue Ann decides to serve her Christmas dinner early.
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Episode 10 - What Are Friends For?
Release Date: 1974-11-16Mary and Sue Ann go to a convention in Chicago and Mary finds out that Sue Ann leads a lonely life.
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Episode 11 - A Boy's Best Friend
Release Date: 1974-11-23Ted is shocked when he finds out his mother does not intend to marry her boyfriend, but will live with him.
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Episode 12 - A Son for Murray
Release Date: 1974-11-30Murray, who has three daughters, wants a son, but his wife Marie doesn't want to have another child. The couple decide to adopt instead.
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Episode 13 - Neighbors
Release Date: 1974-12-07Lou wants a smaller place and moves in to Rhoda's old apartment but can't help interfering in Mary's private life.
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Episode 14 - A Girl Like Mary
Release Date: 1974-12-14Lou wants to hire a female newscaster 'like Mary', so Mary decides to audition for the job herself.
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Episode 15 - An Affair to Forget
Release Date: 1974-12-21Now that Mary is producer, Ted thinks that he can make his move on her. He convinces the rest of the newsroom that they are having an affair.
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Episode 16 - Mary Richards: Producer
Release Date: 1975-01-04Mary doesn't feel she deserves the title of producer and asks Lou that she be given the chance to produce The Six O'clock News alone.
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Episode 17 - The System
Release Date: 1975-01-11When Ted's formula for betting on football games works, Lou goes into partnership with him. He winds up betting all of the season's winnings on the Super Bowl without telling Ted.
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Episode 18 - Phyllis Whips Inflation
Release Date: 1975-01-18Phyllis and Lars have a dispute and she finds her credit cards cut off. She looks for a job but finds that she has no relevant skills.
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Episode 19 - The Shame of the Cities
Release Date: 1975-01-25Lou wants to research his own news story now that Mary's producer and decides to launch a major investigation on a city councilor only to discover that he is completely honest.
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Episode 20 - Marriage Minneapolis Style
Release Date: 1975-02-01Ted pops the question to Georgette at Murray's 20th wedding anniversary party and then gets cold feet.
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Episode 21 - You Try To Be a Nice Guy
Release Date: 1975-02-08Mary agrees to help a troubled crime prone girl go straight and find a job.
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Episode 22 - You Can't Lose 'em All
Release Date: 1975-02-15Lou wins the Albert Mason Award, which he had once said was for broadcasting veterans who couldn't chew their own food.
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Episode 23 - Ted Baxter's Famous Broadcasters' School
Release Date: 1975-02-22A con-man tricks Ted into setting up a broadcasters' academy. When he finds out he's been had, he asks Lou, Mary and Murray to be the faculty and give the semester's opening lectures.
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Episode 24 - Anyone Who Hates Kids and Dogs
Release Date: 1975-03-08Mary likes her new boyfriend but finds his son absolutely intolerable.