Category: Mary Tyler Moore
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Comedy Is … Must See TV
Is it possible for a sitcom to have a personality? Newsradio wasn’t given the most auspicious of starts. Although it was commissioned on the spot, two scenes into the pilot recording, by network boss Warren Littlefield, it only had a seven episode first season commitment. And things went downhill from there. But when I first…
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A Mary Tyler Moore Show Test Scene
It’s not often you get a chance to compare two versions of the same sitcom scene, but every now and then, you do. Here’s a famous moment from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, as it played out on broadcast, when Mary first meets Lou Grant. It’s a great scene, and regarded as a classic for…
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The Wandavision Set
The Wandavision set sounds like a 1950s television, but in this case, we’re looking at the set from the first couple of episodes of Wandavision. As I understand it, the show will move forward in time, and we will see sitcom sets from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s. I don’t know how many UK…
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Mary Tyler Moore Ads
Mary Tyler Moore was in a number of hugely succesful sitcoms, so it’s no wonder that she was asked to be the face of a few advertising campaigns over the years. But here’s an early one from 1956, for Hotpoint, long before she appeared on The Dick Van Dyke Show. I always forget how closely…
