The Mary Tyler Moore Show
originally aired on CBS
The Mary Tyler Moore Show is an American television sitcom. It was created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns and starred actress Mary Moore. Moore portrayed Mary Richards, an unmarried, independent woman focused on her career. 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. The series earned 29 Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series three years in a row.
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.