The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Mary Tyler Moore is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS. (The correct name of the sitcom is Mary Tyler Moore, although it is widely known as The Mary Tyler Moore Show.) Actor Mary Tyler Moore stars as Mary Richards, a single woman who, at age 30, moves to Minneapolis, Minnesota to work as an associate producer for the news broadcast on WJM-TV. Her new friends at work include her tough boss, Lou Grant; sympathetic newswriter Murray Slaughter; and buffoonish anchorman Ted Baxter. Mary's acquaintances and friends outside of the job include self-deprecating ex-New Yorker Rhoda Morgenstern and their insincere, self-centered landlady Phyllis Lindstrom. Later cast additions include acerbic, man-hungry Sue Ann Nivens, host of WJM's cooking program, The Happy Homemaker, and soft-spoken Georgette Franklin, Ted Baxter's girlfriend.

Theme song

Love is all around, no need to waste it.

You can have a town, why don't you take it?

You're gonna make it after all.

from seasons 2-7

Love Is All Around [1.01]

Lou: You know what? You've got spunk.

Mary: Well, yes…

Lou: I hate spunk.

Cast

• Mary Tyler Moore — Mary Richards
• Ed Asner — Lou Grant
• Gavin MacLeod — Murray Slaughter
• Ted Knight — Ted Baxter
• Valerie Harper — Rhoda Morgenstern
• Cloris Leachman — Phyllis Lindstrom
• Georgia Engel — Georgette Franklin
• Betty White — Sue Ann Nivens