Mary (1985 TV series)
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| Genre | Sitcom |
| Created by |
David Isaacs Ken Levine |
| Written by | David Isaacs Dennis Koenig Ken Levine Emily Marshall Merrill Markoe Tom Straw Douglas Wyman |
| Directed by |
Peter Baldwin Jeff Chambers Rod Daniel Danny DeVito Ellen Falcon Dolores Ferraro Nick Havinga Will Mackenzie |
| Starring |
Mary Tyler Moore James Farentino John Astin David Byrd Katey Sagal James Tolkan Carlene Watkins Derek McGrath Harold Sylvester |
| Theme music composer | Dan Foliart Howard Pearl |
| Composer(s) | Dan Foliart Howard Pearl |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | David Isaacs Ken Levine |
| Producer(s) | David Isaacs Ken Levine |
| Editor(s) | Andrew Chulack |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera setup |
| Running time | 22 min |
| Production company(s) | MTM Enterprises |
| Distributor | 20th Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | December 11, 1985 – April 8, 1986 |
Mary is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from December 11, 1985 to April 8, 1986. The series stars Mary Tyler Moore in her return to series television after an absence of over six years, during which time she appeared on Broadway in Whose Life Is It Anyway? and in the dramatic film Ordinary People. After The Mary Tyler Moore Show, her subsequent ventures into series television on the variety shows Mary (1978) and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour (1979) had been short-running ratings disasters, and Moore decided to return to the sitcom format which had brought her the greatest television success; the sitcom nonetheless met the same fate as the variety shows.
In Mary, Moore plays Mary Brenner, a 40-ish divorcée working at a second rate tabloid, the Chicago Eagle. She had formerly been a high-profile writer at a fashion magazine which had recently gone out of business and was now reduced to writing a consumer-assistance column, "Helpline", helping to expose substandard business practices and products and the often uncaring reaction of government to these problems. Her boss, Managing Editor Frank DeMarco (James Farentino), concentrated on sensationalism as he was convinced as that was what really sold papers. He was also quite a ladies' man, and was attracted to Mary, as she was to him, but she found dealing with that situation to be quite awkward.
Also working at the Eagle were the cynical, chain-smoking columnist Jo Tucker (Katey Sagal), the condescending theater critic Ed LaSalle (John Astin), and Tully (David Byrd), a copy editor who could scarcely function because he was going blind but knew he wasn't going away; his job had strong protection from the union. Neighbors included Susan Wilcox (Carlene Watkins), Mary's good friend, whose fiancé Lester Mintz (James Tolkan) seemed to be somehow "connected".
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