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The Mary Tyler Moore Show - The Complete Fourth Season
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Joyce Bulifant, Nancy Walker Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled) Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 613 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-06-20 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Mary Tyler Moore Show - The Complete Fourth SeasonMovie Review: Optimism for Remaining Seasons Summary: 5 StarsThe Sept 1 review by James (Minnesota) refers to a New York Times article reporting that the remaining three seasons will soon be scheduled for release. The article's very encouraging. It identifies the source of the good news as 20th Century Fox Entertainment's Sidney Feldstein, Senior Vice-President, Corporate & Marketing Communications.
The article by Mark Harris appeared in the Times' Aug 2 issue. It can be accessed in its entirety at nytimes.com by entering Mary Tyler Moore Show in that website's search box.
Summary of The Mary Tyler Moore Show - The Complete Fourth SeasonWJM NEWSFLASH: MORE LAUGHS IN STORE WITH SEASON FOUR!Classy smart funny and confident? Mary Richards is the very embodiment of the independent career woman of the 1970s. As news producer for WJM-TV Mary along with her eclectic and hilarious cast of friends and co-workers confronts some of life's biggest challenges head on: career advancement dating marriage death and divorce? All with varying degrees of success but always with a sense of humor and an optimistic outlook. Season Four of The Mary Tyler Moore Show shows why this endearing and enduring TV classic was the inspiration for a young generation who discovered that they too were "gonna make it after all."System Requirements:Features: Disc 1: The Lars Affair Angels in the Snow The Lou and Edie Story Hi There Sports Fans Father's Day Son of "But Seriously Folks" Lou's First Date Love Blooms at Hemples Disc 2: Rhoda's sister Gets Married The Finner Party Just Friends We Want Better I Gave at the Office Almost a Nun's Story Happy Birthday Lou! WJM Tries Harde Disc 3: The Co-producers Cottage for Sale Best of Enemies Better . . . That's a Pun . . . Than Never Ted Baxter Meets Walter Cronkite Lou's Second Date Two Wrongs Don't Make a Writer I Was a Single for WJM Running Time: 610 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating:?NR UPC:?024543244301 Manufacturer No:?2234430 The multi-Emmy-winning fourth season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show showed us the sassy side of Betty White and the softer side of Ed Asner's Lou Grant. Cast against type, White makes a memorable first impression in the season-opener as steely "Happy Homemaker" Sue Ann Nivens, who makes Martha Stewart look like June Cleaver. The episode "The Lars Affair" earned an Emmy for Cloris Leachman, and it is arguably her finest half-hour, as the ill-equipped Phyllis tries to domesticate herself after her husband has an affair with Sue Ann. Consider the bee, a dejected Phyllis tells Mary and Rhoda (Valerie Harper). "Once the male bee has... serviced the queen, the male dies. All in all, not a bad system." Sue Ann's debut is but one of this superb season's historic moments. The other is when "Ted Baxter Meets Walter Cronkite." "The big question," Murray (Gavin McLeod) asks, "is where do I sit to get the best view?" The event even exceeds the anticipation. "Let's talk shop," Ted (Ted Knight) tells the speechless Cronkite. "What words do you have trouble pronouncing?" The character who goes through the biggest changes this season is Lou. In the Emmy-winning episode, "The Lou and Edie Story," Lou is heartbroken when his wife moves out, leading to one of the season's funniest episodes, "Lou's First Date," in which an unwitting Mary sets Lou up with an 80-year-old woman to bring to an awards ceremony. Lou's difficulty handling displays of affection is put to the supreme test in "Happy Birthday, Lou!" in which Mary ill advisedly decides to throw him a surprise party. Speaking of disastrous parties, the classic episode, "The Dinner Party" (the one with the Veal Prince Orloff) firmly establishes one of the series' best running jokes: Mary's disastrous track record as a hostess. That's Henry Winkler as an extra, unexpected guest forced to sit at his own table. Moore was honored this season with an Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy. No doubt her Emmy reel included "Best of Enemies" (co-written by Albert Brooks collaborator Monica Johnson), in which Rhoda's tactless revelation of one of Mary's secrets threatens their friendship, and "Two Wrongs Don't Make a Writer," in which Mary and Ted take the same creative writing class and Ted plagiarizes her story. Mary may be a bust as a hostess, but season 4, this classic series' best to date, is a real party. --Donald Liebenson
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