Click the link below for Amazon warehouse deals and every click <br />helps keep this channel running and any purchase you make after <br />clicking the link helps and commercial free and free from those<br /> annoying playlists<br /><br /><br /><br />The Mary Tyler Moore Show (also known simply as Mary Tyler Moore)<br /> is an American sitcom television series starring the actress of <br />the same name and created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns; it<br /> originally aired on CBS from September 19, 1970 to March 19, <br />1977. Moore starred as Mary Richards, an unmarried, independent<br /> woman focused on her career as associate producer at the <br />fictional WJM news program in Minneapolis. A central female <br />character who was not married or dependent on a man was a rarity<br /> in American television in the early 1970s, leading to numerous<br /> publications citing The Mary Tyler Moore Show as groundbreaking<br /> television in the era of second-wave feminism.Ed Asner co-starred<br /> as Mary's boss Lou Grant, alongside Valerie Harper as her friend <br />and neighbor Rhoda Morgenstern and Cloris Leachman as her landlady <br />Phyllis Lindstrom. Other co-stars throughout the series's run <br />included Gavin MacLeod, Ted Knight, Georgia Engel, and Betty White.<br /><br />The Mary Tyler Moore Show is remembered for its realistic and <br />complex characters and storylines, in contrast to the simplistic<br /> characters and plots typically seen on broadcast television at <br />that time. It was the subject of consistent critical praise and<br /> high ratings during its original run, receiving twenty-nine <br />Primetime Emmy Awards, including for Outstanding Comedy Series<br /> three years in a row (1975–1977); Moore received the Primetime <br />Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series three<br /> times. The series also launched three spin-offs: Rhoda (1974–1978),<br /> Phyllis (1975–1977), and Lou Grant (1977–1982). In 2013, the Writers <br />Guild of America ranked The Mary Tyler Moore Show #6 on its list of<br /> the "101 Best Written TV Series of All Time.
