The Mary Tyler Moore Hour
Mary Tyler Moore plays Mary McKinnon, who stars in a variety show. Every week she must deal with her producer Harry over what to do on that week's episode. She has a very neurotic assistant named Iris and a maid named Ruby, the page Kenny is an idiot, and every week a celebrity appears as a guest on her show.
- 1979-1979
- 1 season
- 20th Century Fox Television
- Comedy
Mary Tyler Moore plays Mary McKinnon, who stars in a variety show. Every week she must deal with her producer Harry over what to do on that week's episode. She has a very neurotic assistant named Iris and a maid named Ruby, the page Kenny is an idiot, and every week a celebrity appears as a guest on her show.
Season 1 Episode Guide
11 Episodes 1979
Episode 1
Episode #1.1
Sun, Mar 4, 1979 60 mins
Just as Mary and Iris are planning for a ski holiday, a disaster strikes the show- no guest can be secured for the next show. She tries to coax Lucille Ball to come on, but she's committed to do a week on Mike Douglas unless he'll let her go. They try to talk him into it, but inadvertently show up drunk.
Episode 2
Episode #1.2
Sun, Mar 11, 1979
Guest Bea Arthur takes advantage of Mary's good nature and takes over her dressing room and later invades her home with a tour group. An old time burlesque comedian hired to do bit parts ruins the scenes he's featured in, yet Mary hasn't the heart to sack him.
Episode 3
Episode #1.3
Sun, Mar 18, 1979
Guest Bonnie has unexpectedly aggressive radical views about confronting authority, which only makes things worse when She and Mary are stopped by the police for jay walking outside of Television City. Meanwhile, a German syndicator who may buy Mary's show is left waiting while she's tied up in night court.
Episode 4
Episode #1.4
Sun, Mar 25, 1979
A wild fire burning through a wooded canyon puts Mary's home is danger as guest Dick Van Dyke discusses his upcoming appearance on her show back at the studio. In segments we see Rob Petrie and his wife Laura as they might appear now (1979) as middle agers and fifty years after we last saw them (2016) as a doddering old couple.
Episode 5
Episode #1.5
Sun, Apr 1, 1979
Episode 6
Episode #1.6
Sun, Apr 8, 1979
Episode 7
Episode #1.7
Sun, Apr 15, 1979
Episode 8
Episode #1.8
Sun, Apr 22, 1979
Episode 9
Episode #1.9
Sun, Apr 29, 1979
Episode 10
Episode #1.10
Sun, May 6, 1979
Episode 11
Episode #1.11
Sun, May 13, 1979