The Mary Tyler Moore Show Episode Guide

Episode Guide

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 7 (1976 - 1977)

• Season 7 Episode 24: The Last Show

  Mary, Lou and Murray are fired after WJM is sold.

• Season 7 Episode 23: Lou Dates Mary

  Lou and Mary go on a date.

• Season 7 Episode 22: Mary's Big Party

  Johnny Carson agrees to be Mary's party guest.

• Season 7 Episode 21: Mary's Three Husbands

  Lou, Ted and Murray imagine being wed to Mary.

• Season 7 Episode 20: Murray Ghosts for Ted

  Murray ghostwrites a successful article for Ted.

• Season 7 Episode 19: Mary and the Sexagenarian

  Mary dates Murray's charming father.

• Season 7 Episode 18: Hail the Conquering Gordy

  WJM's old weatherman, now on the network, visits.

• Season 7 Episode 17: Sue Ann Gets the Ax

  Sue Ann fights back when her show is canceled.

• Season 7 Episode 16: The Ted and Georgette Show

  The Baxters star in their own television show.

• Season 7 Episode 15: Lou's Army Reunion

  Lou agrees to get an Army buddy a date with Mary.

• Season 7 Episode 14: The Critic

  The station manager hires a caustic critic.

• Season 7 Episode 13: Look at Us, We're Walking

  Mary and Lou go on strike over a salary dispute.

• Season 7 Episode 12: Ted's Temptation

  A reporter tries to seduce Ted at a convention.

• Season 7 Episode 11: Mary's Insomnia

  Mary turns to sleeping pills to fight insomnia.

• Season 7 Episode 10: Murray Can't Lose

  Murray believes he'll never win a Teddy Award.

• Season 7 Episode 9: Lou Proposes

  Lou proposes to Mary's Aunt Flo (Eileen Heckart).

• Season 7 Episode 8: Mary Gets a Lawyer

  Mary faces charges for not revealing a source.

• Season 7 Episode 7: My Son, the Genius

  The Baxters learn their adopted son is a genius.

• Season 7 Episode 6: One Producer Too Many

  Murray becomes co-producer of the news.

• Season 7 Episode 5: Ted's Change of Heart

  Ted changes after suffering a mild heart attack.

• Season 7 Episode 4: What's Wrong With Swimming?

  Mary hires a woman sports reporter.

• Season 7 Episode 3: Sue Ann's Sister

  Sue Ann competes with her younger sister.

• Season 7 Episode 2: Mary, the Writer

  Mary wants Lou's opinion on her first article.

• Season 7 Episode 1: Mary Midwife

  Georgette delivers her baby in Mary's apartment.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 6 (1975 - 1976)

• Season 6 Episode 24: Ted and the Kid

  Ted learns he is sterile.

• Season 6 Episode 23: Sue Ann Falls in Love

  Sue Ann falls for a man also pursuing Mary.

• Season 6 Episode 22: A Reliable Source

  Mary finds damaging news on a politician friend.

• Season 6 Episode 21: Mary's Aunt Returns

  Mary's Aunt Flo challenges Lou's news skills.

• Season 6 Episode 20: Murray Takes a Stand

  Murray disputes the new station owner's policies.

• Season 6 Episode 19: Menage a Lou

  Lou's old girlfriend arrives with a new man.

• Season 6 Episode 18: Once I Had a Secret Love

  Lou tries to keep his fling with Sue Ann secret.

• Season 6 Episode 17: The Seminar

  Mary and Lou attend a seminar in Washington, D.C.

• Season 6 Episode 16: Not With My Wife I Don't

  Georgette tells Mary that she plans to leave Ted.

• Season 6 Episode 15: What Do You Want to Do When You Produce?

  Murray leaves his job to produce Sue Ann's show.

• Season 6 Episode 14: One Boyfriend Too Many

  Two charming bachelors pursue Mary.

• Season 6 Episode 13: The Happy Homemaker Takes Lou Home

  Amorous Sue Ann lures Lou to her apartment.

• Season 6 Episode 12: Ted's Tax Refund

  Ted is audited after spending his tax refund.

• Season 6 Episode 11: Mary Richards Falls in Love

  Mary loses her heart to a new beau.

• Season 6 Episode 10: Lou Douses an Old Flame

  Lou resists an old flame's advances.

• Season 6 Episode 9: Ted's Wedding

  Ted and Georgette wed in Mary's apartment.

• Season 6 Episode 8: Mary's Delinquent

  Mary and Sue Ann become big sisters to two girls.

• Season 6 Episode 7: Chuckles Bites the Dust

  Chuckles the Clown has a fatal accident.

• Season 6 Episode 6: Mary's Aunt

  Mary's aunt, a journalist, visits the newsroom.

• Season 6 Episode 5: Ted's Moment of Glory

  Ted gets a job as a game-show host in New York.

• Season 6 Episode 4: Murray in Love

  Murray tells Lou that he's in love with Mary.

• Season 6 Episode 3: Mary's Father

  A priest tells Mary he's leaving the church.

• Season 6 Episode 2: Mary Moves Out

  Mary moves into a new high-rise apartment.

• Season 6 Episode 1: Edie Gets Married

  Lou can't cope with his ex-wife's marriage plans.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 5 (1974 - 1975)

• Season 5 Episode 24: Anybody Who Hates Kids and Dogs

  Mary realizes she can't stand her date's son.

• Season 5 Episode 23: Ted Baxter's Famous Broadcaster's School

  A con artist talks Ted into endorsing a school.

• Season 5 Episode 22: You Can't Lose 'Em All

  Mary tries to help a woman she met in jail.

• Season 5 Episode 21: You Try to Be a Nice Guy

  Lou must make an acceptance speech for an award.

• Season 5 Episode 20: Marriage Minneapolis Style

  Ted proposes to Georgette.

• Season 5 Episode 19: The Shame of the Cities

  Lou investigates corruption in big-city politics.

• Season 5 Episode 18: Phyllis Whips Inflation

  Phyllis needs a job when Lars cancels her credit.

• Season 5 Episode 17: The System

  Ted invents a system for betting on football.

• Season 5 Episode 16: Mary Richards: Producer

  Mary finds being the news producer isn't easy.

• Season 5 Episode 15: An Affair to Forget

  Ted implies that he and Mary are dating.

• Season 5 Episode 14: A Girl Like Mary

  Mary and Sue Ann audition for a newscaster's job.

• Season 5 Episode 13: Neighbors

  Lou moves into Rhoda's old apartment.

• Season 5 Episode 12: A Son for Murray

  Murray, father of three daughters, wants a son.

• Season 5 Episode 11: A Boy's Best Friend

  Ted's mother decides to live with her boyfriend.

• Season 5 Episode 10: What Are Friends For?

  Two men Sue Ann picked up both dump her for Mary.

• Season 5 Episode 9: Not a Christmas Story

  Sue Ann invites the staff to Christmas dinner.

• Season 5 Episode 8: Menage-a-Phyllis

  Mary and Phyllis date the same man (John Saxon).

• Season 5 Episode 7: A New Sue Ann

  A younger woman takes over Sue Ann's show.

• Season 5 Episode 6: I Love a Piano

  Murray is tempted to have an extramarital fling.

• Season 5 Episode 5: The Outsider

  A news consultant's suggestions create turmoil.

• Season 5 Episode 4: Lou and That Woman

  Lou becomes involved with a lounge singer.

• Season 5 Episode 3: You Sometimes Hurt the One You Hate

  Ted takes advantage of Lou's new, gentle image.

• Season 5 Episode 2: Not Just Another Pretty Face

  Mary wonders if her new love is only physical.

• Season 5 Episode 1: Will Mary Richards Go to Jail?

  Mary faces jail for refusing to reveal a source.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 4 (1973 - 1974)

• Season 4 Episode 24: I Was Single for WJM

  Mary researches a news show in a singles bar.

• Season 4 Episode 23: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Writer

  Ted and Mary enroll in a creative-writing class.

• Season 4 Episode 22: Lou's Second Date

  Mary arranges the first date for Lou and Rhoda.

• Season 4 Episode 21: Ted Baxter Meets Walter Cronkite

  Ted realizes his dream to meet Walter Cronkite.

• Season 4 Episode 20: Better Late ... That's a Pun ... Than Never

  Mary allows unedited news copy on the air.

• Season 4 Episode 19: Best of Enemies

  A remark threatens Mary and Rhoda's friendship.

• Season 4 Episode 18: The Co-Producers

  Mary's chance to produce a show turns sour.

• Season 4 Episode 17: Cottage for Sale

  Real-estate agent Phyllis eyes Lou's house.

• Season 4 Episode 16: WJM Tries Harder

  Mary dates a newsman from another TV station.

• Season 4 Episode 15: Happy Birthday, Lou

  Mary plans a surprise birthday party for Lou.

• Season 4 Episode 14: Almost a Nun's Story

  Georgette finds Ted kissing another woman.

• Season 4 Episode 13: I Gave at the Office

  Mary hires Murray's daughter as office assistant.

• Season 4 Episode 12: We Want Baxter

  Phyllis encourages Ted to run for city council.

• Season 4 Episode 11: Just Friends

  Mary tries to get Lou and his wife back together.

• Season 4 Episode 10: The Dinner Party

  A congresswoman accepts Mary's dinner invitation.

• Season 4 Episode 9: Love Blooms at Hemples

  Rhoda's new love owns the store where she works.

• Season 4 Episode 8: Lou's First Date

  Mary promises to find separated Lou a date.

• Season 4 Episode 7: Son of 'But Seriously Folks'

  Mary's ex-boyfriend gets a job in the newsroom.

• Season 4 Episode 6: Father's Day

  Ted gets a phone call from his long-lost father.

• Season 4 Episode 5: Hi There, Sports Fans

  Mary regrets asking Lou for more responsibility.

• Season 4 Episode 4: The Lou and Edie Story

  Lou and his wife see a marriage counselor.

• Season 4 Episode 3: Rhoda's Sister Gets Married

  Rhoda's sister is getting married in New York.

• Season 4 Episode 2: Angels in the Snow

  Mary dates a man seven years her junior, despite the advice of friends.

• Season 4 Episode 1: The Lars Affair

  Phyllis' husband has an affair with Sue Ann.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 3 (1972 - 1973)

• Season 3 Episode 24: Mary Richards and the Incredible Plant Lady

  Mary lends Rhoda money to start her own business.

• Season 3 Episode 23: Put on a Happy Face

  Mary tries to keep smiling through some bad luck.

• Season 3 Episode 22: Remembrance of Things Past

  Mary rekindles a romance with an old flame.

• Season 3 Episode 21: Murray Faces Life

  Murray is upset over an ex-classmate's success.

• Season 3 Episode 20: What Do You Say When the Boss Says, 'I Love You?'

  Lou's new boss thinks she's in love with him.

• Season 3 Episode 19: Romeo and Mary

  An extremely ardent suitor pursues Mary.

• Season 3 Episode 18: The Georgette Story

  Mary and Rhoda offer advice to Ted's girlfriend.

• Season 3 Episode 17: My Brother's Keeper

  Phyllis tries to fix up her brother with Mary.

• Season 3 Episode 16: Lou's Place

  Lou buys a neighborhood bar.

• Season 3 Episode 15: The Courtship of Mary's Father's Daughter

  Mary attends an ex-boyfriend's engagement party.

• Season 3 Episode 14: Rhoda Morgenstern: Minn. to N.Y.

  Rhoda accepts a job in New York.

• Season 3 Episode 13: Operation: Lou

  Mary takes charge while Lou is in the hospital.

• Season 3 Episode 12: It Was Fascination, I Know

  Bess' boyfriend falls in love with Mary.

• Season 3 Episode 11: You've Got a Friend

  Mary's parents find city life difficult.

• Season 3 Episode 10: Have I Found a Guy for You

  Mary is the 'other woman' after friends split.

• Season 3 Episode 9: Farmer Ted and the News

  Ted moonlights as a TV-commercial actor.

• Season 3 Episode 8: But Seriously, Folks

  Mary becomes involved with a would-be comedian.

• Season 3 Episode 7: Just Around the Corner

  Mary's parents move into town to be near her.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Rhoda, the Beautiful

  Rhoda still 'feels fat' despite losing weight.

• Season 3 Episode 5: It's Whether You Win or Lose

  Mary organizes a poker game to pacify Lou.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Enter Rhoda's Parents

  Mrs. Morgenstern thinks her husband is cheating.

• Season 3 Episode 3: Who's in Charge Here?

  Lou's promotion creates problems in the newsroom.

• Season 3 Episode 2: What Is Mary Richards Really Like?

  Mary dates a columnist who interviewed her.

• Season 3 Episode 1: The Good-Time News

  Mary tries to make the news show less formal.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 2 (1971 - 1972)

• Season 2 Episode 24: His Two Right Arms

  A dim-witted politician appears on a news show.

• Season 2 Episode 23: Some of My Best Friends Are Rhoda

  Mary breaks with a bigoted friend (Mary Frann).

• Season 2 Episode 22: You Certainly Are a Big Boy

  Mary becomes involved with a handsome architect.

• Season 2 Episode 21: Where There's Smoke, There's Rhoda

  A fire forces Rhoda to move in with Mary.

• Season 2 Episode 20: The Care and Feeding of Parents

  Bess asks Mary to help get her essay published.

• Season 2 Episode 19: More Than Neighbors

  Ted wants to move into Mary's building.

• Season 2 Episode 18: Baby-Sit-Com

  Mary volunteers to baby-sit Bess for a weekend.

• Season 2 Episode 17: The Slaughter Affair

  Murray's moonlighting brings nothing but trouble.

• Season 2 Episode 16: Feeb

  Mary hires an incompetent girl as her assistant.

• Season 2 Episode 15: The Five-Minute Dress

  A handsome politician cancels dates with Mary.

• Season 2 Episode 14: Ted Over Heels

  Ted falls for Chuckles the Clown's daughter.

• Season 2 Episode 13: The Square Shaped Room

  Lou hires Rhoda to redecorate his living room.

• Season 2 Episode 12: ... Is a Friend in Need

  Mary helps unemployed Rhoda find a new job.

• Season 2 Episode 11: The Six-and-a-Half-Year Itch

  Lou suspects his son-in-law is unfaithful.

• Season 2 Episode 10: Don't Break the Chain

  Mary receives a chain letter from Lou.

• Season 2 Episode 9: And Now, Sitting In for Ted Baxter

  Ted's vacation replacement is a hit.

• Season 2 Episode 8: Thoroughly Unmilitant Mary

  A newswriters' strike leaves Mary and Lou alone.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Didn't You Used to Be ... Wait ... Don't Tell Me

  Mary sees her least-liked ex-beau at a reunion.

• Season 2 Episode 6: Cover Boy

  Ted's visiting brother renews a sibling rivalry.

• Season 2 Episode 5: A Girl's Best Mother Is Not Her Friend

  Mrs. Morgenstern tries being pals with Rhoda.

• Season 2 Episode 4: Room 223

  Mary dates her night-school journalism teacher.

• Season 2 Episode 3: He's No Heavy -- He's My Brother

  Mary and Rhoda take a winter vacation in Mexico.

• Season 2 Episode 2: I Am Curious Cooper

  Lou fixes up an old friend with Mary.

• Season 2 Episode 1: The Birds and ... Um ... Bees

  Mary has to tell Bess the facts of life.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 1 (1970 - 1971)

• Season 1 Episode 24: The 45-Year-Old Man

  When ratings dip, Lou is fired.

• Season 1 Episode 23: Smokey the Bear Wants You

  Rhoda's beau wants to be a forest ranger.

• Season 1 Episode 22: A Friend in Deed

  Mary's childhood friend becomes a pest at WJM.

• Season 1 Episode 21: The Boss Isn't Coming to Dinner

  Separated Lou asks Mary for advice.

• Season 1 Episode 20: Hi!

  A nasty roommate disrupts Mary's hospital stay.

• Season 1 Episode 19: We Closed in Minneapolis

  Mary makes her acting debut in Murray's play.

• Season 1 Episode 18: Second Story Story

  Mary's apartment is robbed twice in three days.

• Season 1 Episode 17: Just a Lunch

  Mary discovers her new boyfriend is married.

• Season 1 Episode 16: Party Is Such Sweet Sorrow

  Mary takes a job at another TV station.

• Season 1 Episode 15: Howard's Girl

  Mary likes a man whose brother she used to date.

• Season 1 Episode 14: Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid

  Mary learns she must work on Christmas Day.

• Season 1 Episode 13: He's All Yours

  Mary fends off a young cameraman's advances.

• Season 1 Episode 12: Anchorman Overboard

  Ted gives a speech for Phyllis' club.

• Season 1 Episode 11: 1040 or Fight

  A meticulous IRS agent audits Mary.

• Season 1 Episode 10: Assistant Wanted, Female

  Mary hires Phyllis to be her newsroom assistant.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Bob & Rhoda & Teddy & Mary

  Rhoda's new boyfriend eyes Mary.

• Season 1 Episode 8: The Snow Must Go On

  A blizzard strikes the station on election night.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Toulousse Lautrec Is One of My Favorite Artists

  Mary is a foot taller than her dinner date.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Support Your Local Mother

  Rhoda tries to avoid seeing her visiting mother.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Keep Your Guard Up

  An ex-football player wants to be a sportscaster.

• Season 1 Episode 4: Divorce Isn't Everything

  Rhoda and Mary join a club for divorced people.

• Season 1 Episode 3: Bess, You Is My Daughter Now

  Mary unwillingly cares for Phyllis' daughter.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Today I Am a Ma'am

  Mary and Rhoda react to being over 30 and single.

• Season 1 Episode 1: Love Is All Around

  Mary Richards arrives at WJM in Minneapolis.