Produced by Danny Gold and Matthew Asner (son of Ed), the documentary interviews practically every s...

In September 1973, three years after the debut of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," WCCO-TV's "Moore On S...

"How will you make it on your own?"

"Who can turn the world on with her smile?"

The classic series begins its classic 7-year run in Mary's apartment. Mary Richards, a 30-year-old...

Mary is worried now that she's outside the 15-29 demographic group which the station classifies as '...

When Phyllis's husband Lars takes ill, she asks Mary to babysit Bess for a few days. Bess decides sh...

Mary and Rhoda find out that divorcees at the Better Luck Next Time club can get group rates on crui...

A football player turned insurance salesman applies for a job as a sportscaster and attaches himself...

Rhoda's mother, Ida, comes visiting and Rhoda refuses to see her. Ida stays with Mary but drives her...

Mary begins seeing an author who appeared as a guest on WJM-TV's Scrutiny, and becomes extremely sel...

A snowstorm leaves Mary producing her first program, broadcasting the results of the local elections...

Mary is nominated for her first Television Editors' Award (the ""Teddies""), but at home Rhoda's boy...

Mary's workload gets too much so Lou allows her to hire an assistant. She chooses Phyllis who hinder...

Mary is audited by the IRS, and the shy auditor takes an interest in her. Unfortunately, he has grea...

Ted loses his self-confidence after speaking at Phyllis's club and Mary has to find a way to get Ted...

After Mary invites Lou's nephew home for dinner, she must confront false rumors in the newsroom the...

Feeling sympathetic for a co-worker who hasn't spent Christmas with his family for years, Mary is fo...

Mary begins seeing Paul Arnell, the brother of her former boyfriend Howard Arnell, and is shocked to...

Mary gets a tempting offer from a rival television station, but becomes reluctant to leave when her...

Mary reluctantly finds herself romantically involved with a married man.

Mary's apartment is burgled, with only her clothes, stereo and television taken but then next night...

Murray's play, All Work and No Play, is finally produced but his happiness is short-lived when he di...

Mary is admitted into the hospital to have her tonsils removed, and shares a room with a grouchy wom...

Lou and his wife Edie separate and Mary becomes involved when she is asked for advice.

An irritating childhood friend drops by Mary's apartment, making use of her connection as Mary's for...

Rhoda falls in love with a top executive, and is shocked to find that he wants to give up the high-f...

When Lou is fired, Mary goes to confront the station owner, Wild Jack Munroe.

In the second-season premiere, after Mary Richards produces a ""What's Your Sexual IQ?"" documentary...

Mary is intrigued by the voice of Lou Grant's friend, Mike Cooper, and asks to be set up with him. L...

Mary and Rhoda take an unplanned vacation to Mexico but have to do a strange favor for a Mexican res...

Mary and Rhoda enroll in a night school course in journalism and Mary begins dating the lecturer.

When Ida, Rhoda's mother, visits, she sees how well Phyllis and Bess get on, and how closely Mary ap...

Jack Cassidy guest stars as professional model Hal Baxter, who comes to visit his brother Ted at WJM...

Mary attends her high school reunion and meets up with her former boyfriend Howard Arnell, who conti...

The writing and technical unions go on strike, leaving only Lou, Mary, and Ted in the newsroom. WJM...

Ted is forced to take a vacation and the anchorman hired to sit in for him becomes a huge success.

Mary gets a chain letter from Lou, and she is persuaded to send it on. To her surprise, one of the r...

Mary, Rhoda and Lou go to a John Wayne movie, where they spot Lou's son-in-law with an unknown woman...

Rhoda loses her job as a window-dresser and isn't in a hurry to find something new. When there is a...

When Edie is out of town, Lou hires Rhoda to redecorate his living room. However, Rhoda's tastes are...

After Ted appears on the Chuckles the Clown Show, he falls in love with Chuckles' daughter.

After volunteering some of her spare time for a worthy cause, Mary begins dating the Governor's aide...

An incompetent waitress is fired after Mary complains about her poor service and Mary feels obliged...

Murray takes on a night job as a cab driver in order to save up and buy his wife Marie a new car for...

Mary agrees to babysit Bess for the weekend, but then a former boyfriend, in town for a few days, as...

After being persuaded by Phyllis, Ted moves into a vacant apartment below Mary's but Mary and Rhoda...

Bess gets top marks for a report she wrote for school, and Phyllis pressures her to write a book bas...

When Rhoda's apartment is destroyed by fire, she moves in with Mary. The two find that while they ar...

Mary begins dating an architect and is astonished to learn that his son is only six years younger th...

Through a minor car accident, Mary befriends a young woman, Joanne. Rhoda becomes jealous when Mary...

Mary gets city councilman Pete Peterson to appear on Face the People and discovers that he is comple...

Mary is given the task of making The Six O'clock News more upbeat, and her plans are on target to su...

Mary is interviewed by a newspaper columnist and ends up telling a little too much.

Lou is promoted to the position of program director but has to decide to whom his old job should go....

Ida Morgenstern, Rhoda's mother, mistakenly believes that her husband is seeing other women, so Rhod...

When Lou's trip to Las Vegas is cancelled, Mary organizes a poker game at the office where Murray lo...

After losing 20 pounds, Rhoda enters a beauty contest at work, but continues to put herself down.

Mary is worried that her parents, who have moved to the Twin Cities to be close to her, may pry into...

Mary begins dating the writer of the Chuckles the Clown show, whose real ambition is to become a sta...

Ted refuses to sign his contract renewal until Lou agrees to let him pursue other ventures, a decisi...

Two of Mary's friends separate and Mary accepts a date from the husband.

Mary becomes concerned when her father, newly retired, appears to have no friends or hobbies in Minn...

Bess's 15-year-old boyfriend falls in love with Mary and begins to surprise her with visits to her a...

Lou goes to hospital to have a piece of World War II shrapnel removed and, surprisingly, he and Ted...

Rhoda decides to move back to New York but Mary is taking the whole thing with a grain of salt.

Mary runs into her former boyfriend Dan Whitfield in an elevator by chance. Subsequently, Dan realiz...

Lou spots an opportunity to buy a bar after realizing a lifelong dream. However, he is short of seve...

Phyllis wants to set up her visiting brother with Mary, but instead he hits it off with Rhoda and be...

Mary and Rhoda try to encourage Georgette to take a stand for herself after seeing how Ted takes adv...

Rhoda introduces Mary to a very irritating Warren Sturges, who tries everything including a giant bi...

The new station manager, an attractive woman, falls for Lou.

Murray becomes depressed when he realizes that the years are passing him by, after he learns that a...

A former boyfriend visiting Minneapolis calls Mary who, deep down, wants to see him again but she ha...

Everything goes right for Rhoda and everything goes wrong for Mary on a disastrous day when she is d...

Mary lends Rhoda almost $1,200 to start a new venture and worries she may never see her money again,...

Phyllis finds out that Lars has been having an affair with Sue Ann Nivens, the star of WJM-TV's The...

Mary's boyfriend is younger than she is and she and Rhoda discover there is a generation gap when th...

Rhoda and Mary fly to New York for Rhoda's younger sister's wedding. Rhoda's mother downplays the wh...

On the advice of their marriage counselor, Lou's wife, Edie, decides to move out. Lou is heartbroken...

In this episode Dick Gautier guest stars briefly as Ed Cavenaugh, a sleazy sportscaster. Have a look...

Ted meets his father, who deserted him as a baby.

Mary's former boyfriend, Wes Callison, gets a job in the newsroom but his affection for Mary gets in...

Lou gives Mary the task of finding him a date for an awards' ceremony. A name mix-up means that Lou...

Rhoda begins dating the boss of Hemple's and falls deeply in love with him. She wants to tell him ho...

Mary invites Congresswoman Geddes to a fancy dinner at her home, trying hard to ensure that everythi...

Lou is still heartbroken over Edie's departure and asks Mary to help them get back together.

Phyllis persuades Ted to stand for local government. Ted agrees and goes so far as to quit his job a...

Murray's daughter, Bonnie, is looking for a job and Mary is persuaded into giving her one but Bonnie...

Georgette finds Ted making out with a woman in his dressing room. She then decides to enter a nunner...

Lou is closing in on fifty and today is his birthday. Mary can't stand the thought of the now-separa...

Mary begins dating the anchorman from Minneapolis's top news show and becomes ashamed of WJM-TV's sm...

Phyllis, who has gotten her real estate license, persuades Lou to sell his house. However, Lou hasn'...

Mary and Rhoda are given permission to develop a new show for WJM but their dreams begin to fade whe...

Rhoda tells the secret of Mary's that she never graduated from college, as she claimed on her job ap...

To relieve her boredom, Mary jokingly writes a humorous obituary of one of the people in the WJM-TV...

After a heavy self-promotion campaign, Ted wins his first Teddy Award. When Walter Cronkite comes to...

Lou and Rhoda find they have a lot in common and begin seeing each other on a casual basis but every...

Ted joins Mary at a night-school class in creative writing, and winds up plagiarizing her assignment...

Mary goes to a singles bar to research a documentary, but on the night the crew arrives for filming,...

Mary refuses to reveal a news source for a story she produced and has to spend a night in jail.

Mary dates a man with whom she has nothing in common and becomes concerned that their relationship i...

Lou finally loses his temper with Ted when he endorses a political candidate on The Six O'clock News...

Lou begins seeing a cocktail lounge singer but becomes uncomfortable about her past.

WJM-TV hires a young business consultant, who demands certain changes for The Six O'clock News, offe...

Murray meets an attractive woman at one of Mary's parties and considers having an affair. On the pre...

A young fan, Gloria, persuades Sue Ann to hire her for The Happy Homemaker. Sue Ann is less than ple...

Phyllis dates a man on a platonic basis, but he is attracted more to Mary and begins seeing her.

The entire newsroom staff is arguing with each other, and when they are trapped at the office due to...

Mary and Sue Ann go to a convention in Chicago and Mary finds out that Sue Ann leads a lonely life.

Ted is shocked when he finds out his mother does not intend to marry her boyfriend, but will live wi...

Murray, who has three daughters, wants a son, but his wife Marie doesn't want to have another child....

Lou wants a smaller place and moves in to Rhoda's old apartment but can't help interfering in Mary's...

Lou wants to hire a female newscaster 'like Mary', so Mary decides to audition for the job herself.

Now that Mary is producer, Ted thinks that he can make his move on her. He convinces the rest of the...

Mary doesn't feel she deserves the title of producer and asks Lou that she be given the chance to pr...

When Ted's formula for betting on football games works, Lou goes into partnership with him. He winds...

Phyllis and Lars have a dispute and she finds her credit cards cut off. She looks for a job but find...

Lou wants to research his own news story now that Mary's producer and decides to launch a major inve...

Ted pops the question to Georgette at Murray's 20th wedding anniversary party and then gets cold fee...

Mary agrees to help a troubled crime prone girl go straight and find a job.

Lou wins the Albert Mason Award, which he had once said was for broadcasting veterans who couldn't c...

A con-man tricks Ted into setting up a broadcasters' academy. When he finds out he's been had, he as...

Mary likes her new boyfriend but finds his son absolutely intolerable.

Lou puts on a brave face when he learns that his ex-wife Edie is remarrying.

Mary, wanting some change in her life, makes the decision to move to a new apartment.

Mary researches a documentary with the help of a priest. He eventually decides to leave the Church,...

Murray realizes that he's always been in love with Mary and wants desperately to tell her.

Ted's jocular nature is ideal for hosting a game show in New York, and he successfully auditions for...

Mary's high-flying journalist aunt comes for a visit, and Lou finds that he has a rival in her.

Chuckles the Clown is crushed to death by a rogue elephant in a parade, which leaves all the newsroo...

Mary joins a Big Sisters scheme and tries to bring a teenage shoplifter to the side of good. Sue Ann...

Out of pity for Ted, Mary invites him & Georgette over for brunch. While he as an onion ring in his...

Lou meets up with a woman who had sent him a 'Dear John' letter during World War II but is disappoin...

Mary is convinced she has really fallen in love, but her boyfriend seems reluctant in saying those t...

Ted is overjoyed when he gets a tax refund and splurges out on everyone at the newsroom, but is late...

Sue Ann gets Mary to ask Lou out on a date on her behalf. Lou accepts, not realizing who Mary's 'fri...

Mary's old flame Dan Whitfield, who once proposed to her, returns to Minneapolis and she's forced to...

Initially delighted at the chance of producing the Happy Homemaker show, Murray quickly becomes mise...

Ted and Georgette face marital problems, but Ted refuses to see a counselor unless Lou goes with him...

Lou and Mary go on a press junket to Washington, DC. Lou was once a correspondent there, but Mary ha...

Lou has spent the night with Sue Ann, and confides in Mary. Their friendship is almost ruined when M...

Lou almost ruins one of Mary's parties when his old girlfriend, Charlene Maguire, arrives with a dat...

Murray is unhappy with the new station owner's policies and tells him off over the phone one evening...

Mary's Aunt Flo and Lou both prepare competing ideas for a TV documentary.

Mary learns that an old friend seeking re-election to Congress had financial help from the mob. Lou...

Sue Ann has fallen in love, but her new boyfriend is less scrupulous than he first seems.

Ted and Georgette decide to adopt a son after Ted is informed he cannot have children.

Georgette gives birth at Mary's dinner party. With the hospital and doctor too far away, Lou and Mar...

Mary decides to take a creative writing course, and is less than delighted with the criticism Lou le...

Sue Ann becomes deeply depressed when her sister arrives and gets an offer to do a competing homemak...

Mary hires a new sportscaster who refuses to cover any sports but swimming and is faced with the pro...

Ted suffers a heart attack on the air and for the next few days becomes conscious of how precious li...

Lou promotes Murray to co-producer against Mary's wishes to prevent him from accepting a producer's...

Ted and Georgette are initially disturbed to find that their son, David, is not doing well at school...

Mary faces a contempt charge for not revealing her news source. Lou recommends a lawyer friend who t...

Lou realizes that he has feelings for Mary's Aunt Flo, a journalist with a similar pride and passion...

Lou learns from a source on the Teddy Award's panel that Murray will finally win an award for his ne...

Mary is having trouble sleeping and resorts to pills, which has Lou concerned that she's become addi...

Mary and Murray find it hard to believe that an attractive young journalist has tried to seduce Ted...

Mary and Lou threaten to quit after the new station manager refuses to give them a raise.

A pompous but renowned critic is hired to provoke controversy on The Six O'Clock News, but the newsr...

Lou wants to return a favor to an old Army buddy, but balks when he asks for a date with Mary.

Ted and Georgette successfully audition for their own variety show, which becomes a big hit, but Geo...

Sue Ann's Happy Homemaker show is canceled but she is determined to stay at WJM and asks Mary to giv...

WJM's former weatherman, Gordy Howard, returns to visit Minneapolis after becoming a highly successf...

Mary happily accepts a date from a charming older man without realizing that he's Murray's father, b...

Ted offers Murray $200 to write an article on his behalf. The article becomes a success, but Ted ref...

Murray, Ted and Lou fantasize about being married to Mary.

Mary has planned a fancy party at her apartment, with a mystery guest of honor, but the power in the...

Mary has another disastrous date and worries she'll never meet the right man, until Georgette points...

WJM-TV has some personnel changes in the executive department (again), and everyone except Ted Baxte...