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3 unusual facts about The Mary Tyler Moore Show


Betty Walker

She is not to be confused with non-Jewish actress/comedienne Nancy Walker, who appeared on the television shows Rhoda and The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Rhoda's mother, Mrs. Morgenstern.

Eddie Carroll

The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1973) as Emcee (Episode: "Put on a Happy Face")

Financial Interest and Syndication Rules

Some argue the rules brought about a golden era of independent television production by companies like MTM Enterprises (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) and Norman Lear's Tandem Productions (All in the Family).


Allan Katz

While working on Laugh-In, he also wrote episodes of Sanford and Son, All in the Family, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Grant Tinker

While creating MTM Enterprises, Tinker hired Room 222 writers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns to create and produce the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Herbert Yates

Notable among Yates' contributions to the lot are the Mabel Normand sound stage, built during the war and later home to The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and an award-winning music scoring auditorium that has hosted such famous names as Aaron Copland and Artur Rubinstein.

Jewish mother stereotype

One example of the stereotype, as it had developed by the 1970s, was the character of Ida Morgenstern, mother of Rhoda Morgenstern, who first appeared in a recurring role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and later as a regular on its spinoff Rhoda.

Joan Darling

She directed the famous "Chuckles Bites the Dust" episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and received a 1976 Emmy nomination for her efforts.

Joanell Dyrstad

Though certainly an underdog in her 1994 attempt for the U.S. Senate, she ran an aggressive campaign in the Republican primary against Congressman Rod Grams, comparing Grams, a former news reporter, to bumbling fictional TV anchor Ted Baxter from the Minnesota-based TV program The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show

Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show is a 90-minute CBS retrospective television special commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 1970-1977 sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show which aired on February 18, 1991.

Michael Tolan

He had a recurring role on three episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and made guest appearances on such television series as Mannix, Kojak, The Outer Limits, McMillan and Wife, and Law & Order.

Peter Orner

A film version of one of Orner’s stories, “The Raft” with a screenplay by Orner and director Rob Jones is currently in production and stars Edward Asner, star of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Fort Apache The Bronx, and Up.

Riverside Plaza

Initially known as Cedar Square West, the exterior shots of the complex were featured on television as the residence of Mary Richards in sixth and seventh seasons of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Val Bisoglio

Bisoglio performed in numerous TV series in the 1970s including M*A*S*H,, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Roll Out, Kojak starring Telly Savalas (beginning with the TV-movie pilot The Marcus-Nelson Murders), Baretta starring Robert Blake, and The Rockford Files starring James Garner.


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Chuckles the Clown

One of the most remembered episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show was "Chuckles Bites the Dust" (October 25, 1975), written by David Lloyd, which involved the death of Chuckles and in which Chuckles, as usual, is never seen on camera.

Rural purge

Following the success of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the series' production company MTM Productions would develop the popular The Bob Newhart Show.