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

Approfondimenti

Mary Tyler Moore has said that she wanted to do the series for another couple of seasons but th [...]	D
Dr. Lars Lindstrom, Phyllis's never-seen husband, was a member of the Society of Concerned And [...]	D
Ted Knight, who played Ted Baxter on the show, was 25 years older than Georgia Engel, who playe [...]	D
In "The Georgette Story" Murray teases Ted that he's upset because they cancelled My Mother The [...]	D
The name for the local broadcasting awards on the show were the Teddies, the Television Editors [...]	D
When Woody Allen was putting the final touches on his Academy Award winning film "Annie Hall," [...]	D
The fictional address of the Victorian apartment building where Mary, Rhoda, and Phyllis live i [...]	D
Betty White was originally only going to appear in one episode as Sue Ann Nivens. She was later [...]	D
Mary is the only employee at WJM who calls Lou "Mr. Grant." All the men in the office as well a [...]	D
The photograph of Ed Asner hanging in Lou Grant's office is of Asner playing Center on his high [...]	D
The only two characters to appear in every episode of the series are Mary Richards (Mary Tyler [...]	D
The writers were planning a serious, multi-episode romantic relationship between Lou and Mary; [...]	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 [...]	D
There is an episode on ABC's The Odd Couple (1970) where Oscar calls his girlfriends Rhoda and [...]	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 even [...]	D
Often, during particularly uproarious episodes, you can hear producer James L. Brooks laughing [...]	D
WJM-TV has a high turnover rate in station managers: Richard Roat, Robert Hogan, Ron Rifkin, Lo [...]	D
The last four surviving regular cast members of this series all died in 2021. Cloris Leachman d [...]	D
According to a 2013 interview with Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman on the TV show "The Docto [...]	D
Lou taking Mary to the Teddies in Season 6's Sue Ann Falls in love was supposed to be the begin [...]	D
After leaving the WJM news staff, Gordy the weatherman became a successful talk show host. The [...]	D
Georgia Engel does a dance number on the show; Mary Tyler Moore; who was a professional dancer [...]	D
Producers wanted "someone like Betty White" to play Sue Ann Nivens. Eventually, someone asked, [...]	D
In a recent EMMY TV LEGENDS interview Jimmie Walker said that Norman Lear did not like "Mary Ty [...]	D
Robert Moore (no relation to Mary Tyler Moore) who appeared as Ben, Phyllis' brother in the "He [...]	D
Producers almost didn't hire Valerie Harper because while her performance was spot on, they fel [...]	D
Gavin MacLeod and Cloris Leachman were not close in real life, much like their characters. They [...]	D
This was not the first joint venture for Mary Tyler Moore and Edward Asner. Both had previously [...]	D
Gavin MacLeod and Ted Knight had worked together several times before being cast in The Mary Ty [...]	D
Amazingly, the Mary Tyler Moore Show had an animated spinoff! Mary Tyler Moore spunoff Rhoda, w [...]	D
Of all the spin-offs to this show, the longest running is Lou Grant with five seasons and 114 e [...]	D
Of the five actresses on the show, Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper, Cloris Leachman, Georgina [...]	D
Broadcast News was James L Brooks' second feature film; the follow up to his multiple Oscar win [...]	D
Mary's aunt Flo Meredith becomes a recurring character in a couple episodes. In one, "Mary's Au [...]	D
Penny Marshall was on Mary Tyler Moore three different times; playing two different characters. [...]	D
Linda Kelsey played Gloria Munson in the episode "A New Sue Ann". She also played Billie Newman [...]	D
Jon Lormer is the only actor to appear in Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) and all three of its spi [...]	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 [...]	D
The lyrics to the theme song were rewritten after the first season. The first season's theme so [...]	D
Mary's house, which appears in the opening credits, is still standing in Minneapolis, Minnesota [...]	D
Richard Schaal, who played Howard and Paul Arnell, one of Mary's love interests on several epis [...]	D
In an Emmy TV Legends interview Ed Asner was asked if the MTM cast was close. Asner said that t [...]	D
Every time Mary is nominated for a Teddy Award, it is for her work as a producer of The Sunday [...]	D
In the series Mary Tyler Moore played a mid-Westerner from Roseburg, Minnesota, while Valerie H [...]	D
Gavin MacLeod first auditioned for the part of Lou Grant, as did Edward Asner. As the latter ga [...]	D
All the men in the cast would star in their own shows after M.T.M. wrapped, and they were all h [...]	D
The show was originally going to be about a divorced woman. Divorce was still a hot subject in [...]	D
When the famous opening credit sequence was reworked for Season 3-4, the Mary crew was being fo [...]	D
Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, and Jerry Van Dyke appeared on "The Dick Van Dyke Show", "The Mar [...]	D
During her hiatus between seasons, Cloris Leachman appeared in L'ultimo spettacolo (1971), base [...]	D
In the opening credits, the two joggers who pass Mary in the park are producers James L. Brooks [...]	D
In the episode where Mary had her tonsils removed, originally she was going to have a tattoo re [...]	D
In the opening credits, the shot of Mary Tyler Moore throwing her hat into the air was shot at [...]	D
Mary fires three people during the course of the show. An amorous producer who makes a pass (a [...]	D
Ted was originally supposed to be Mary's love interest. Originally they were thinking of Lyle W [...]	D
Though the regulars never assembled for a reunion show, a sequel surfaced in the form of Mary a [...]	D
After starring on MTM, for which Ed Asner won the Emmy; Asner went on to star in Lou Grant. Of [...]	D
Ted Knight and Ed Asner were actually very close during the show and not enemies like their cha [...]	D
A three-minute mini-pilot, titled "Love is All Around," was produced for CBS Network executives [...]	D
The producers of the series have expressed in interviews that one of the worst episodes was "So [...]	D
Richard Schaal and Bernie Kopell both appeared on "The Dick Van Dyke Show", as did Mary Tyler M [...]	D
Mary Kay Place was a writer for the Mary Tyler Moore Show and penned Mary's Delinquent along wi [...]	D
Penny Marshall played two characters on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. She played the recurring cha [...]	D
There was a crossover/spinoff episode which saw Rhoda leaving Minneapolis and marrying her boyf [...]	D
Many critics commented that James L Brooks' film Broadcast News was just another episode of the [...]	D
Murray was the only member of the WJM news staff who never won a Teddy. Coincidentally, Gavin M [...]	D
In an EmmyTvLegends interview Nanette Fabray, who played Mary's mother, expressed great disappo [...]	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 Weat [...]	D
Mary Tyler Moore said the following about "That Girl" (1966), the groundbreaking feminist girl [...]	D
The position of the outer wall of Lou's office changes based on the scene. For scenes shot in L [...]	D
The photo of Edward Asner playing football on Lou Grant's office wall is the same photo that wa [...]	D
With the final episodes of the fourth season, Valerie Harper ceased to be a regular on the seri [...]	D
Mary Tyler Moore used the "Love is All Around" theme song for her follow up to the Mary Tyler M [...]	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 [...]	D
Lars Lindstrom is an invisible sitcom character; referred to thoughout the series but never see [...]	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 [...]	D
Moore wore a wig for the first season of the show, to make her look less like Laura Petrie, her [...]	D
It is referenced several times throughout the show that Mary has a crush on Robert Redford, and [...]	D
Gavin Macleod, Jerry Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore were all on The Dick Van Dyke Show and The M [...]	D
Bill Quinn played Mary Tyler Moore's father in the "Hawaiian Eye" episode, "Typhoon," based on [...]	D
Ed Asner won the "Best Supporting Actor for a Comedy Series" Emmy Award for his portrayal of Lo [...]	D
Lou's First Date and Mary and the Sexegenarian both are episodes which derive humor from one of [...]	D
Ed Asner admits there was ongoing competition between the men on the show (him, Gavin MacLeod, [...]	D
Nancy Walker was already appearing on television as Rosie, the pitch-lady for Bounty's Quicker [...]	D
The kitten that meows at the end of the closing credits is a parody of the roaring lion that ap [...]	D
The meowing kitten in the MTM logo was actually yawning in real life during filming. As the cam [...]	D
In the 70s while the show was in production the M.T.M. writers were invited to a panel on femin [...]	D
Following the conclusion of the series, Edward Asner continued to play Lou Grant in a long-runn [...]	D
Hard rock legend Joan Jett, of "I Love Rock and Roll" and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts fame, s [...]	D
John Aniston auditioned for the part of Ted Baxter. Aniston is the father of Friends star Jenni [...]	D
"Mary's Delinquent" shares a very similar plotline with "Maude's Guest". Both have the title ch [...]	D
Mary Tyler Moore is indeed a failed ballet dancer, much like her character. "I'm a failed dance [...]	D
M.T.M. writer and producer Allan Burns would direct Mary Tyler Moore in the unsuccessful 1986 d [...]	D
Mary Tyler Moore (Mary Richards) and Cloris Leachman (Phyllis Lindstrom) are the only actors to [...]	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 [...]	D
Exteriors of Mary's residence show that the apartment with the balcony (which would be Mary's, base [...]	D
On the newsroom wall there are various world clocks like you would see in a typical newsroom of tha [...]	D
The exterior establishing shot of the building where WJM is located, usually zooms closely to a win [...]	D
Two vertical painted piano hinges may be seen to the right of the door in Lou's office between it a [...]	D
In the first season installment "Divorce Isn't Everything", Mary mentions that she can't speak Fren [...]	D
Exteriors of Mary's residence show that the apartment with the balcony (which would be Mary's, base [...]	D