Overseen by writer-producer James L. Brooks, who would become a legendary figure in his own right, it was also the first major sitcom to revolve around a single professional woman who wasn't widowed.

Love Is All AroundThe Mary Tyler Moore Show / First episode

The Dick Van Dyke Show American actress Mary Tyler Moore is best remembered for her roles in two highly successful television comedies in the 1960s and '70s: The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Sonny CurtisThe Mary Tyler Moore Show / Music composed by The theme song, "Love Is All Around", was written and performed by Sonny Curtis. First scene of The Mary Tyler Moore Show opening sequence.

1974: First Black woman to lead a network drama Teresa Graves became the first Black woman to lead a network drama with Get Christie Love!

Betty White Pioneers of Television: Betty White – First Lady of Television.

“Chuckles Bites the Dust” There really was no other choice to top this list. “Chuckles Bites the Dust” is not just the quintessential “Mary Tyler Moore Show” episode. It's one of the quintessential sitcom episodes. Back in 1997 “TV Guide” called it the best TV episode ever.

Chuckles Bites the Dust No list of the best episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show would be complete without mentioning “Chuckles Bites the Dust,” universally acknowledged umpteen times over as the single best episode of the series: TV Guide once placed it at Number 1 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time in 1997.

HBO TV-PG | documentary | 2 HR 0 MIN | 2023 Credits: HBO Documentary Films presents Being Mary Tyler Moore in association with FIFTH SEASON, a Hillman Grad production, a Debra Martin Chase production, a The Mission Entertainment Production, a Good Trouble Studios production.

Hot in Cleveland Moore made her final appearance as an actress in 2013, guest-starring on season 4 of the TV Land comedy Hot in Cleveland.

Premise. 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. She is instead offered the post of associate producer of the station's six o'clock news.

Rhoda MorgensternValerie HarperTed BaxterTed KnightMary RichardsMary Tyler MooreSue Ann NivensBetty WhitePhyllis LindstromCloris LeachmanLou GrantEd Asner The Mary Tyler Moore Show/Characters