Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore (titolo originale Mary Tyler Moore o The Mary Tyler Moore Show) è una sitcom con puntate della durata di circa 30 minuti trasmesso negli Stati Uniti dalla CBS dal 1970 al '77 mentre in Italia è approdata nell'aprile 1982. Lo show durò per sette stagioni finché la stessa Mary Tyler Moore, che produceva la serie insieme al marito Grant Tinker, decise di interromperla nel momento in cui cominciava ad essere superata da altre sitcom nella classifica degli ascolti ma mentre il pubblico non era ancora disaffezionato. Nel 2002, la rivista TV Guide ha classificato Mary Tyler Moore all'11º posto tra I migliori 50 spettacoli televisivi di tutti i tempi. La protagonista della serie è il personaggio interpretato da Mary Tyler Moore, Mary Richards, una donna indipendente, single e legata al suo lavoro, che, pur conoscendo molti uomini nella speranza di trovare quello giusto, non è mai ossessionata dall'idea di dovere avere qualcuno al suo fianco. In uno degli episodi, Mary si lamenta dei suoi deludenti rapporti sentimentali e quando prova a contare il numero degli uomini con cui è uscita dai tempi della scuola arriva a una cifra che lascia anche lei a bocca aperta. Questa ricerca dell'uomo giusto, fatta però senza ansia, permette di affiancare a Mary nei vari episodi nuovi personaggi tutte le volte che se ne fosse presentato il bisogno. Quasi tutti i suoi incontri amorosi si esauriscono con la fine dell'episodio. Inizialmente, secondo la produzione, Mary Richards doveva essere una donna divorziata o vedova che si trasferiva a Minneapolis per iniziare una nuova vita ma la CBS ritenne subito che il pubblico di quei tempi non avrebbe accolto bene una donna divorziata. Alla stessa Mary Tyler Moore non piaceva però neanche l'idea di interpretare una vedova e suggerì un personaggio più rappresentativo della nuova generazione di donne single che abitavano gli Stati Uniti negli anni settanta. Allan Burns e James L. Brooks appoggiarono con entusiasmo l'idea perché potevano finalmente dar vita a un personaggio più attuale e soprattutto moderno, visto che il numero di persone che vivevano da sole era raddoppiato dagli anni sessanta ma veniva quasi ignorato dalle serie televisive per dar spazio alle altre situazioni di coppia più tradizionali. Così nel primo episodio le idee originarie di divorzio, scartato dalla CBS, e di vedovanza, non amata dalla Moore, si trasformano in una semplice rottura di fidanzamento. Nasce una Mary Richards assolutamente nuova per il panorama televisivo di quei tempi, una donna single e comunque felice e indipendente, immersa in situazioni specchio dei rapidi cambiamenti sociali che erano in corso per le donne in quegli anni, con storie semplici di vita quotidiana in un'America non così perfetta, trattate con gradevole ironia.
Creato da: Allan Burns | James L. Brooks |
Genere: Commedia |

Numero di stagioni: 7
Numero di episodi: 168
Data prima messa in onda: 1970-09-19
Data ultima messa in onda: 1977-03-19

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Approfondimenti

Mary Tyler Moore has said that she wanted to do the series for another couple of seasons but the wri [...]	D
Dr. Lars Lindstrom, Phyllis's never-seen husband, was a member of the Society of Concerned And Respo [...]	D
Ted Knight, who played Ted Baxter on the show, was 25 years older than Georgia Engel, who played his [...]	D
In "The Georgette Story" Murray teases Ted that he's upset because they cancelled My Mother The Car. [...]	D
The name for the local broadcasting awards on the show were the Teddies, the Television Editors awar [...]	D
When Woody Allen was putting the final touches on his Academy Award winning film "Annie Hall," he as [...]	D
The fictional address of the Victorian apartment building where Mary, Rhoda, and Phyllis live is 119 [...]	D
Betty White was originally only going to appear in one episode as Sue Ann Nivens. She was later prom [...]	D
Mary is the only employee at WJM who calls Lou "Mr. Grant." All the men in the office as well as Sue [...]	D
The photograph of Ed Asner hanging in Lou Grant's office is of Asner playing Center on his high scho [...]	D
The only two characters to appear in every episode of the series are Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore [...]	D
The writers were planning a serious, multi-episode romantic relationship between Lou and Mary; but M [...]	D
Mary's home telephone number is identified as 555-2312 by Ted in an episode during season four.	D
Jack Cassidy was offered the role of Ted Baxter. He turned it down because he didn't want to be in t [...]	D
There is an episode on ABC's The Odd Couple (1970) where Oscar calls his girlfriends Rhoda and Phyll [...]	D
Chuckles the Clown's real name was George Bowerchuck.	D
Cloris Leachman and Valerie Harper are actually very close, not enemies like their characters.	D
Ed Asner has said in interviews that Gavin MacLeod was not funny when the show started but eventuall [...]	D
Often, during particularly uproarious episodes, you can hear producer James L. Brooks laughing from [...]	D
WJM-TV has a high turnover rate in station managers: Richard Roat, Robert Hogan, Ron Rifkin, Lois Ne [...]	D
The last four surviving regular cast members of this series all died in 2021. Cloris Leachman died o [...]	D
According to a 2013 interview with Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman on the TV show "The Doctors," [...]	D
Lou taking Mary to the Teddies in Season 6's Sue Ann Falls in love was supposed to be the beginning [...]	D
After leaving the WJM news staff, Gordy the weatherman became a successful talk show host. The fact [...]	D
Georgia Engel does a dance number on the show; Mary Tyler Moore; who was a professional dancer befor [...]	D
Producers wanted "someone like Betty White" to play Sue Ann Nivens. Eventually, someone asked, "Why [...]	D
In a recent EMMY TV LEGENDS interview Jimmie Walker said that Norman Lear did not like "Mary Tyler M [...]	D
Robert Moore (no relation to Mary Tyler Moore) who appeared as Ben, Phyllis' brother in the "Her Bro [...]	D
Producers almost didn't hire Valerie Harper because while her performance was spot on, they felt she [...]	D
Gavin MacLeod and Cloris Leachman were not close in real life, much like their characters. They had [...]	D
This was not the first joint venture for Mary Tyler Moore and Edward Asner. Both had previously co-s [...]	D
Gavin MacLeod and Ted Knight had worked together several times before being cast in The Mary Tyler M [...]	D
Amazingly, the Mary Tyler Moore Show had an animated spinoff! Mary Tyler Moore spunoff Rhoda, which [...]	D
Of all the spin-offs to this show, the longest running is Lou Grant with five seasons and 114 episod [...]	D
Of the five actresses on the show, Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper, Cloris Leachman, Georgina Engel [...]	D
Broadcast News was James L Brooks' second feature film; the follow up to his multiple Oscar winner " [...]	D
Mary's aunt Flo Meredith becomes a recurring character in a couple episodes. In one, "Mary's Aunt"; [...]	D
Penny Marshall was on Mary Tyler Moore three different times; playing two different characters. She [...]	D
Linda Kelsey played Gloria Munson in the episode "A New Sue Ann". She also played Billie Newman in t [...]	D
Jon Lormer is the only actor to appear in Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) and all three of its spin-off [...]	D
Series was filmed on Stage 2 at CBS Studio City	D
Except Ted Knight, the entire main cast all died within 4 years of each other between 2017 and 2021. [...]	D
The lyrics to the theme song were rewritten after the first season. The first season's theme song em [...]	D
Mary's house, which appears in the opening credits, is still standing in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the [...]	D
Richard Schaal, who played Howard and Paul Arnell, one of Mary's love interests on several episodes, [...]	D
In an Emmy TV Legends interview Ed Asner was asked if the MTM cast was close. Asner said that they w [...]	D
Every time Mary is nominated for a Teddy Award, it is for her work as a producer of The Sunday Show [...]	D
In the series Mary Tyler Moore played a mid-Westerner from Roseburg, Minnesota, while Valerie Harper [...]	D
Gavin MacLeod first auditioned for the part of Lou Grant, as did Edward Asner. As the latter gave su [...]	D
All the men in the cast would star in their own shows after M.T.M. wrapped, and they were all hits. [...]	D
The show was originally going to be about a divorced woman. Divorce was still a hot subject in 1970, [...]	D
When the famous opening credit sequence was reworked for Season 3-4, the Mary crew was being followe [...]	D
Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, and Jerry Van Dyke appeared on "The Dick Van Dyke Show", "The Mary Tyl [...]	D
During her hiatus between seasons, Cloris Leachman appeared in L'ultimo spettacolo (1971), based on [...]	D
In the opening credits, the two joggers who pass Mary in the park are producers James L. Brooks and [...]	D
In the episode where Mary had her tonsils removed, originally she was going to have a tattoo removed [...]	D
In the opening credits, the shot of Mary Tyler Moore throwing her hat into the air was shot at the c [...]	D
Mary fires three people during the course of the show. An amorous producer who makes a pass (a "comp [...]	D
Ted was originally supposed to be Mary's love interest. Originally they were thinking of Lyle Waggon [...]	D
Though the regulars never assembled for a reunion show, a sequel surfaced in the form of Mary and Rh [...]	D
After starring on MTM, for which Ed Asner won the Emmy; Asner went on to star in Lou Grant. Of all t [...]	D
Ted Knight and Ed Asner were actually very close during the show and not enemies like their characte [...]	D
A three-minute mini-pilot, titled "Love is All Around," was produced for CBS Network executives in a [...]	D
The producers of the series have expressed in interviews that one of the worst episodes was "Some of [...]	D
Richard Schaal and Bernie Kopell both appeared on "The Dick Van Dyke Show", as did Mary Tyler Moore, [...]	D
Mary Kay Place was a writer for the Mary Tyler Moore Show and penned Mary's Delinquent along with ot [...]	D
Penny Marshall played two characters on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. She played the recurring characte [...]	D
There was a crossover/spinoff episode which saw Rhoda leaving Minneapolis and marrying her boyfriend [...]	D
Many critics commented that James L Brooks' film Broadcast News was just another episode of the Mary [...]	D
Murray was the only member of the WJM news staff who never won a Teddy. Coincidentally, Gavin MacLeo [...]	D
In an EmmyTvLegends interview Nanette Fabray, who played Mary's mother, expressed great disappointme [...]	D
This program has the most Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series - 5.	D
John Amos, the only black member of the cast, who played the recurring character Gordy the Weatherma [...]	D
Mary Tyler Moore said the following about "That Girl" (1966), the groundbreaking feminist girl power [...]	D
The position of the outer wall of Lou's office changes based on the scene. For scenes shot in Lou's [...]	D
The photo of Edward Asner playing football on Lou Grant's office wall is the same photo that was use [...]	D
With the final episodes of the fourth season, Valerie Harper ceased to be a regular on the series, h [...]	D
Mary Tyler Moore used the "Love is All Around" theme song for her follow up to the Mary Tyler Moore [...]	D
The lunar map on Lou's office wall was from National Geographic.	D
There is at least one discrepancy about which floor the WJM-TV office is on. In season one, it is sa [...]	D
Lars Lindstrom is an invisible sitcom character; referred to thoughout the series but never seen. He [...]	D
Voted #11 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.	D
Mary works at WJM-TV News. The W.J.M. stands for "Wild" Jack Monroe, the station owner.	D
John Amos appeared as Gordy the Weatherman on M.T.M. until about 1974, when he left to go star on Go [...]	D
Moore wore a wig for the first season of the show, to make her look less like Laura Petrie, her char [...]	D
It is referenced several times throughout the show that Mary has a crush on Robert Redford, and she [...]	D
Gavin Macleod, Jerry Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore were all on The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary T [...]	D
Bill Quinn played Mary Tyler Moore's father in the "Hawaiian Eye" episode, "Typhoon," based on "Key [...]	D
Ed Asner won the "Best Supporting Actor for a Comedy Series" Emmy Award for his portrayal of Lou Gra [...]	D
Lou's First Date and Mary and the Sexegenarian both are episodes which derive humor from one of the [...]	D
Ed Asner admits there was ongoing competition between the men on the show (him, Gavin MacLeod, and T [...]	D
Nancy Walker was already appearing on television as Rosie, the pitch-lady for Bounty's Quicker Picke [...]	D
The kitten that meows at the end of the closing credits is a parody of the roaring lion that appears [...]	D
The meowing kitten in the MTM logo was actually yawning in real life during filming. As the camerama [...]	D
In the 70s while the show was in production the M.T.M. writers were invited to a panel on feminism w [...]	D
Following the conclusion of the series, Edward Asner continued to play Lou Grant in a long-running d [...]	D
Hard rock legend Joan Jett, of "I Love Rock and Roll" and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts fame, sang M [...]	D
John Aniston auditioned for the part of Ted Baxter. Aniston is the father of Friends star Jennifer A [...]	D
"Mary's Delinquent" shares a very similar plotline with "Maude's Guest". Both have the title charact [...]	D
Mary Tyler Moore is indeed a failed ballet dancer, much like her character. "I'm a failed dancer but [...]	D
M.T.M. writer and producer Allan Burns would direct Mary Tyler Moore in the unsuccessful 1986 dramed [...]	D
Mary Tyler Moore (Mary Richards) and Cloris Leachman (Phyllis Lindstrom) are the only actors to play [...]	D
Anne Meara and Reva Rose auditioned for the role of Rhoda Morgenstern.	D

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Errori

Throughout the series there are several continuity errors involving the clocks mounted on the wall b [...]	D
Exteriors of Mary's residence show that the apartment with the balcony (which would be Mary's, based [...]	D
On the newsroom wall there are various world clocks like you would see in a typical newsroom of that [...]	D
The exterior establishing shot of the building where WJM is located, usually zooms closely to a wind [...]	D
Two vertical painted piano hinges may be seen to the right of the door in Lou's office between it an [...]	D
In the first season installment "Divorce Isn't Everything", Mary mentions that she can't speak Frenc [...]	D
Exteriors of Mary's residence show that the apartment with the balcony (which would be Mary's, based [...]	D