Winner of 29 Emmy Awards including three for Outstanding Comedy Series and three Golden Globe Awards, this groundbreaking series consistently ranked among television’s top-rated programs during its seven-year run. “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” Season Five debuts October 6 as a collectible three-disc DVD set from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Audiences follow the daily trials and tribulations of Mary Richards, an up-and-coming associate producer at WJM-TV fighting to make a place for herself in a man’s world.
At work, she befriends her tough-but-lovable boss Lou Grant (Edward Asner; Up), compassionate long-suffering news writer Murray Slaughter (Gavin MacLeod; “The Love Boat”) and pretentious anchorman Ted Baxter (Ted Knight; “The Love Boat”). At home Mary’s corky acquaintances include upstairs neighbor Rhoda Morgenstern (Valerie Harper; “Rhoda”), a self-deprecating ex-New Yorker who becomes her best friend and their neurotic, self-involved landlady, Phyllis Lindstrom (Cloris Leachman; “Dancing with the Stars”). In the fifth season of the Emmy-winning hit show, Mary and her hilariously eccentric friends at WJM-TV weather a few storms — sometimes literally. If her love life isn’t challenging enough, Mary takes a crack at producing the news, and even has a brush with the law! Laughs are the lead story when a consultant turns the newsroom on its ear, Lou becomes Mary’s neighbor, and Ted starts a rumor that he and Mary are dating. Featuring some of television’s most memorable characters and story lines, this inimitable series belongs in every DVD collection.
The following is the breakdown for each disc:
Disc One
Will Mary Richards Go to Jail?
Not Just Another Pretty Face
You Sometimes Hurt the One You Hate
Lou and That Woman
The Outsider
I Love a Piano
The New Sue Ann
Menage-a-Phyllis
Disc Two
Not a Christmas Story
What Are Friends For?
A Boy’s Best Friend
A Son for Murray
Neighbors
A Girl Like Mary
An Affair to Forget
Mary Richards: Producer
Disc Three
The System
Phyllis Whips Inflation
The Shame of the Cities
Marriage Minneapolis Style
You Try to be a Nice Guy
You Can’t Lose ‘em All
Ted Baxter’s Famous Broadcaster’s School
Anybody Who Hates Kids and Dogs
DVD Specs:
The three-disc set is presented in full screen 1:33:1 aspect ratio and features English mono sound, and English and Spanish subtitles.
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