The Mary Tyler Moore Show
originally aired on CBS
The Mary Tyler Moore Show was created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns and aired from September 19, 1970, to March 19, 1977. The show was a groundbreaking series in the era of second-wave feminism. Ed Asner co-starred as Mary's boss Lou Grant, Gavin MacLeod, Ted Knight, Georgia Engel, Betty White, Valerie Harper as friend Rhoda Morgenstern, and Cloris Leachman as friend and landlady Phyllis Lindstrom. Mary Tyler Moore received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series three times.
Mary Richards (Moore) is a single woman who, at age 30, moves to Minneapolis on the heels of a broken engagement. She applies for a secretarial job at fictional television station WJM, but the position is already taken. Mary dates many men on and off over the years but remains single throughout the series. Issues such as workplace discrimination against women figured into episode stories.