Sitcom: The Mary Tyler Moore Show by ric gustafson
After The Dick Van Dyke Show went off the air in 1965, producer Grant Tinker along with writers James L Brooks and Allan Burns tried to develop a new sitcom for Mary Tyler Moore. The idea became where a divorced woman would move alone to a new city and start a new job with a gossip column and find new friends. The new story they came up with was for Mary to arrive in Minneapolis after a breakup and work as a TV news producer at a third rate station. The show was hoped to intend to a younger hipper audience.
The show ran on CBS from 1970 to 1977 and 168 episodes. Ed Asner was picked to play Lou Grant Mary's boss. Gavin MacLeod was chosen to play Murray Slaughter. Ted Knight was picked to play Ted Baxter. In the last episode, everyone is fired except for Ted Baxter. 1970's shows of new families had arrived and started.
research help: ' Sitcom' by Saul Austerlitz
Peace and God's blessings. Love Ric
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