Mary (1985 TV series)

Mary (1985 TV series)
Mary
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Genre Sitcom
Created by David Isaacs
Ken Levine
Written by David Isaacs
Dennis Koenig
Ken Levine
Emily Marshall
Merrill Markoe
Tom Straw
Douglas Wyman
Directed by Peter Baldwin
Jeff Chambers
Rod Daniel
Danny DeVito
Ellen Falcon
Dolores Ferraro
Nick Havinga
Will Mackenzie
Starring Mary Tyler Moore
James Farentino
John Astin
David Byrd
Katey Sagal
James Tolkan
Carlene Watkins
Derek McGrath
Harold Sylvester
Theme music composer Dan Foliart
Howard Pearl
Composer(s) Dan Foliart
Howard Pearl
Country of origin United States
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 13
Production
Executive producer(s) David Isaacs
Ken Levine
Producer(s) David Isaacs
Ken Levine
Editor(s) Andrew Chulack
Camera setup Multi-camera setup
Running time 22 min
Production company(s) MTM Enterprises
Broadcast
Original channel CBS
Audio format Monaural
Original run December 11, 1985 (1985-12-11) – April 8, 1986 (1986-04-08)

Mary is an American sitcom that aired on CBS during the 1985-86 television season. The series stars Mary Tyler Moore in her return to series television after an absence of over six years, during which time she appeared on Broadway in Whose Life Is It Anyway? and in the dramatic film Ordinary People. After The Mary Tyler Moore Show, her subsequent ventures into series television, the variety show Mary and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour had been short-running ratings disasters, and Moore decided to return to the sitcom format which had brought her the greatest television success.

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Synopsis

In Mary, Moore plays Mary Brenner, a 40-ish divorcée working at a second rate tabloid, the Chicago Eagle. She had formerly been a high-profile writer at a fashion magazine which had recently gone out of business and was now reduced to writing a consumer-assistance column, "Helpline", helping to expose substandard business practices and products and the often uncaring reaction of government to these problems. Her boss, Managing Editor Frank DeMarco (James Farentino), concentrated on sensationalism as he was convinced as that was what really sold papers. He was also quite a ladies' man, and was attracted to Mary, as she was to him, but she found dealing with that situation to be quite awkward.

Also working at the Eagle were the cynical, chain-smoking columnist Jo Tucker (Katey Sagal), the condescending theater critic Ed LaSalle (John Astin), and Tully (David Byrd), a copy editor who could scarcely function because he was going blind but knew he wasn't going away; his job had strong protection from the union. Neighbors included Susan Wilcox (Carlene Watkins), Mary's good friend, whose fiancé Lester Mintz (James Tolkan) seemed to be somehow "connected".

The program never really found much of an audience; after February, Mary was moved to a different time slot in an attempt to save it. Susan and Lester were written out and Mary's personal life was generally downplayed in favor of her business one. There were some favorable reviews, although some critics pronounced it as more or less a clone of her previous sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The program was eventually cancelled in April 1986.[1]

Cast

Episodes

Episode # Episode title Original airdate
1-1 "From Pillar to Post" December 11, 1985
1-2 "Make My Day" December 18, 1985
1-3 "Chicago Hi-Lo" December 25, 1985
1-4 "Everyone's a Critic" January 1, 1986
1-5 "The Death Threat" January 8, 1986
1-6 "Forest for the Trees" January 15, 1986
1-7 "Same Old Song" January 22, 1986
1-8 "Beans" January 29, 1986
1-9 "Table for Two" February 12, 1986
1-10 "Mr. Lucky" February 19, 1986
1-11 "And the Winner Is" March 25, 1986
1-12 "Little Jo" April 1, 1986
1-13 "Steppin' Out with Mary Brenner" April 8, 1986

References

  1. ^ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (2007-10-17). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present (9 ed.). Ballantine Books. pp. 861–862. ISBN 0-345-49773-2. 

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