The Mary Tyler Moore Show - The Complete First Season
starring: Mary Tyler Moore, Edward Asner, Gavin MacLeod, Valerie Harper, Nancy Walker
directed by: Alan Rafkin, Bruce Bilson, Herbert Kenwith, Jay Sandrich, Peter Baldwin
directed by: Alan Rafkin, Bruce Bilson, Herbert Kenwith, Jay Sandrich, Peter Baldwin
List Price: $29.98
Prices subject to change.
You Pay Only: $23.99
You Save: $5.99 (20%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543042990
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 24, 2002
Running Time: 612 minutes
Sales Rank: 4061
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1970
Related Items:
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show - The Complete Second Season (1971)
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show - The Complete Third Season (1972)
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show - The Complete Fourth Season
- The Bob Newhart Show - The Complete First Season
- The Bob Newhart Show - The Complete Second Season
- see more
Editorial Review:
Description:
Welcome back to WJM-TV Minneapolis! Over its seven year run, The Mary Tyler Moore Show won twenty-nine Emmy Awards. Now get ready to turn back the dial to 1970 and rejoin the gang from WJM - the lowest-rated (but most hilarious) evening news show in Minneapolis. Relive all the laughter with Mary, Lou, Murray, Ted, Rhoda and Phyllis as the first season of this classic TV show arrives on DVD.
Amazon.com:
She finally made it after all... to DVD! Created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns, The Mary Tyler Moore Show is the very model of a tailor-made star vehicle. It transformed Moore from Dick Van Dyke's wacky housewife to empowered thirtysomething single woman determined to make it on her own. Moore was the anchor of a peerless ensemble who brought to life characters so indelible that three of them, Ed Asner's Lou Grant, Valerie Harper's Rhoda, and Cloris Leachman's Phyllis, would each get their own series. The 24 episodes that comprise the Emmy-winning first season (1970) hilariously set the stage for what would become one of television's most beloved sitcoms, ranked by TV Guide in 2002 as the 11th greatest of all time (it should have been higher!). The classic pilot episode is a master class of character-based comedy writing, as Mary meets her future 'family' at the WJM newsroom, as well as upstairs neighbor Rhoda, with whom she would form perhaps TV's greatest female buddy team.
Among the most memorable episodes are 'Support Your Local Mother,' which won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing and introduced Nancy Walker as Rhoda's maddening mother, Ida. Another Emmy-winner is 'Toulouse-Lautrec Is One of My Favorite Artists,' in which Mary dates a height-challenged author. Lending able support in this inaugural season is a stellar guest star roster of comic actors who, like Harper and Asner, apprenticed with Chicago's legendary improvisational Second City troupe: Shelley Berman ('Divorce Isn't Everything'); Bob Dishy ('Second Story Story'); Richard Schaal ('Today I Am a Ma'am,' 'The Snow Must Go On,' in which he plays the ill-fated Chuckles the Clown,' and 'Howard's Girl'); and Paul Sand ('1040 or Fight'). At this point, the characters are pretty much one-note. Mary is cute and perky, Lou Grant hard-boiled, Rhoda brash, Phyllis flighty, and Ted Knight's vainglorious anchorman Ted Baxter idiotic. But what beautiful music they all would make in seasons to come. --Donald Liebenson
Average Rating: 
Rating:
- A little seltzer down your pants.....Mary, Mary, Mary....
Season 1-4 are all wonderful, why can't Fox or whoever is responsible put ... Read More
Rating:
- Our whole family is LOVING this!What fun to relive this classic comedy...starting at the very first program. My 11-year-old son had never ... Read More
Rating:
- Nostalgic!I'm an unsual 26 year old. I LOVE the Mary Tyler Moore show. I watched a lot of Nick-at-Nite growing up and ... Read More
Rating:
- MARY TYLER MOOREI REALLY LIKE THIS FIRST ADDITION... VERY GOOD.. BUT, I AM A REAL MTM FAN...
Rating:
- First Season of TV's Greatest Adult ComedyTo see how adult TV comedy should really be done, buy the first season of Mary Tyler Moore Show. The pilot ... Read More
Browse for similar items by category:
- Comedy - Genres - DVD - Video - General
- Television - Comedy - Genres - DVD - Video - General AAS
- Television - Genres - DVD - Video - General
- M - TV Series By Letter - Television - Genres - DVD - Video - The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment - Studio Specials - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - DVD - Video - All Fox Titles
Copyright ©2003, Mark Carey.