Another Lassie–MTM connection
Jenny from Calverton.
I let a song get into my head
We were having a tuna casserole. I thought casserole — cream of mushroom soup — midwest — Minnesota — The Mary Tyler Moore Show. And that’s how I found myself singing “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary.”
Mary’s and Rhoda’s apartments
Computer-modeled tours of Mary Richards’s and Rhoda Morgenstern’s apartments.
Visitors to the newsroom
Watching Lou Grant, I have sometimes imagined what it might be like if the old gang from WJM-TV were to show up.
Lassie and Ted
“Remember the time Murray told you, just before the news, that Lassie was three different dogs?”
Time for cheese
Sue Ann Nivens (Betty White) speaks: “No one is ever too busy for cheese.”
A merger in Minneapolis
A wine-whine merger from the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
You and Your Vocabulary
Ted Baxter is increasing his vocabulary.
The world and the corner
“Good evening. This is Ted Baxter, with news from around the world and around the corner.“ Or would it be better the other way around: “Good evening. This is Ted Baxter, with news from around the corner and around the world.“
Yellow Ticonderogas
Yellow is the color of Mary Richards’s new Mustang.
Ted and Suzy and Fluffy
Ted Knight and a puppet, 1959, 1973.
A sit-com trio
Bill Daily, Isabel Sanford, and Davis Roberts in a Mary Tyler Moore Show episode.
Seven movies, five seasons
Movies, and five seasons of The Mary Tyler Moore show.
WJM Mongols
Mongol pencils on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Cloris Leachman (1926–2021)
The most abiding image: as Phyllis Lindstrom in The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The most striking: as Christina Bailey, running down the highway in nothing but a trenchcoat in Kiss Me Deadly. The strangest: as Ruth Martin in Lassie, pre-June Lockhart.
Mary Tyler Moore (1936–2017)
With a photograph.
“Love Is All Around”
Have you ever heard the theme from The Mary Tyler Moore Show in its entirety? Sheesh.
I envy Mary Richards
“I have been watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Me-TV, and I must confess: I envy Mary Richards.”