La chica de la tele WJM Tries Harder (1970–1977) Online
- Original Title :
- WJM Tries Harder
- Genre :
- TV Episode / Comedy
- Year :
- 1970–1977
- Directror :
- Jay Sandrich
- Cast :
- Mary Tyler Moore,Edward Asner,Valerie Harper
- Writer :
- James L. Brooks,Allan Burns
- Type :
- TV Episode
- Time :
- 26min
- Rating :
- 8.0/10
Mary has just started dating Ross Nelson, the successful anchor of Channel 8 news, the number one news program in Minneapolis. They met at an awards dinner. Mary is happy about dating Ross until she visits the Channel 8 newsroom, which has ten times the staff, ten times the equipment, and as a result has ten times the sophistication as WJM. That visit shows Mary that WJM is the little station that couldn't. So, for the first time in her life, Mary feels embarrassed by her job when Ross later comes to visit her at WJM. As a result, Lou, in speaking to the station management, receives a modest increase in budget to compete better with their competitors, namely Channel 8. They collectively hope that with or without that increased budget that they can scoop Channel 8 just once in their lives.
| Episode cast overview: | |||
 | Mary Tyler Moore | - | Mary Richards |
 | Edward Asner | - | Lou Grant |
 | Valerie Harper | - | Rhoda Morgenstern |
 | Gavin MacLeod | - | Murray Slaughter |
 | Ted Knight | - | Ted Baxter |
 | Anthony Eisley | - | Ross Nelson |
 | Ned Wertimer | - | Bill Brown |
 | Regis Cordic | - | Marc Williams (as Regis J. Cordic) |
 | J. Benjamin Chulay | - | Pete (as Benjamin Chulay) |
| Christopher S. Nelson | - | Copy Boy (as Christopher Stafford Nelson) |
The title is from the classic Avis Rent-A Car slogan "We Try Harder" which is one of the ten most famous advertising campaigns of all time which was launched in the early 60's to make a virtue of Avis' number 2 position behind Hertz Rent-a-car. "We Try Harder" lapel button were very popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
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