Mary Tyler Moore Love Is All Around (1970–1977) Online

Mary Tyler Moore Love Is All Around (1970–1977) Online

Thirty year old Mary Richards has just moved to Minneapolis to start a new life. She broke off a long term relationship with her now ex-boyfriend Bill. They were in a pre-engagement period for two years while Bill was going through medical school, he promising to marry her once he started his own practice. But when that time came, he didn't want to rush into marriage. In Minneapolis, Mary has to deal both with finding a place to live and finding a job. With the former, her friend, Phyllis Lindstrom, has found an apartment for her in the small building in which she herself lives. Mary will have to battle another tenant, Rhoda Morgenstern, a brash Jewish New Yorker, for that unit. With the latter, Mary applies for a secretarial job at WJM-TV News. After a less than conventional interview with the news' producer, Lou Grant, Mary instead is offered a job as associate producer, which is lower paid than the secretarial job and not very well defined in terms of the responsibilities. Mary's ...

The character of Rhoda did not go over well, in early run-throughs before an audience (it was thought she was 'too mean' to Mary), but after one line of dialogue was added, it gave audiences a whole new perspective. Phyllis says - re; Mary's comment; 'who's Rhoda'; that dumb, awful girl who lives upstairs, that Bess likes'). The addition of the line (of Bess Lindstron);; 'Aunt Rhoda's really a lot of fun - mom hates her'. With this one, simple line, one of the most iconic characters - as well as one of TV's most indelible, endurable, memorable friendships was born.

The (iconic) 'M' on Mary's wall is not the one which is best-remembered. The 'M' used (only) in this episode Is flat. The 'M' which appears subsequently and is best-remembered, is '3-dimensional', with rounded front parts.

The character of 'Ted Baxter' was modeled on Jack Cassidy, who, in fact, was offered the role, but, didn't accept (though, he does appear in one 1st-season episode, as Ted's brother, Hal Baxter).

According to the pilot episode, "Love Is All Around", the rent on Mary's new apartment is $130 a month - equal to $865.68 in 2016.

At Mary's job interview, she says she's Presbytrian. In a later episode, Rhoda will say Mary's Episcopalian.

Mr. Grant's offer of the associate producer job - for $10/week less than the secretarial position, is the equivalent of $62.28/week in 2016

'Phyllis Lindstrom'was originally to be called 'Marna Lindstrom'.

At the initial read-through, actor'Angus Duncan' so disliked the script, he through it, and was almost fired on the spot. However, after the problems were worked out, and the pilot episode was shot, to very positive reviews from the audience, Duncan asked if his character could become a semi-regular, which Messers Brooks and Burns said; 'thanks, but no thanks'.

In this episode, Phyllis's daughter Bess calls her 'mom,'and 'mother'. In all other episodes, she refers to her as 'Phyllis'.

CBS was initially very doubtful off the success of the series, and had scheduled it for Tuesday's, at 9.30p, where it almost certainly would've died. After a 'house-cleaning' of CBS executives, the new executive in charge of programming,'Fred Silverman' made the unusual move of changing the series' from Tuesday to Saturday, and the rest is history.