Mary Tyler Moore Filmography

The Untold Secrets of Television's Greatest Hits

Synopsis: The Untold Secrets of Television's Greatest Hits offers stories about the productions of eight famous programs. Among the shows discussed are Cheers, L.A. Law, Hill Street Blues, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, he Addams Family, The Munsters, and I Love Lucy. ~ Perry Seibert, All Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Carl Reiner, Rose Marie, Ann Morgan Guilbert

The Gin Game

Synopsis: Mary Tyler Moore reunites with the man who played her '60s small-screen husband, Dick Van Dyke, in this film adaptation of D.L. Coburn's much-lauded 1976 play. The Gin Game concerns a burgeoning friendship -- and an insurmountable rift -- between Fonsia Dorsey (Moore) and Weller Martin (Van Dyke) Read More

Great Women of Television and Comedy

Synopsis: Organized by New York's Museum of Television and Radio, this impressively assembled tribute to the funny women boasts a stellar all-female cast, drawn from half a century's worth of video entertainment. Hosted by Megan Mullally (Will & Grace), the special uses rare film clips and interviews to pay Read More

The Gin Game

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore

Synopsis: Written in 1976 and staged on Broadway the following year, D.L. Coburn's two-character play The Gin Game was first televised in 1981 with the play's stars Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy repeating their roles as a pair of oil-and-water residents in a dismal nursing home. This 2003 remake, produced Read More

Blessings

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Kathleen Quinlan, Liam Waite, China Chow, Ralph Waite

Synopsis: Buried under several layers of old-age makeup and outfitted with thick horn-rims and a grey wig, Mary Tyler Moore stars in this TV-movie adaptation of Anna Quindlen's novel Blessings. Moore is cast as octogenarian Lydia Blessing, who lives on a huge country estate, imprisoned by her own bitter Read More

Cheats

Actors: Trevor Fehrman, Elden Henson

Synopsis: Co-director of the controversial 1998 documentary Frat House, Andrew Gurland attempts to follow in the teen-comedy footsteps of his partner on that film, Todd Phillips (Road Trip), with Cheats. The film centers on Handsome (Trevor Fehrman) and Sammy (Elden Henson), a scheming pair of best pals who Read More

Miss Lettie and Me

Synopsis: Based on "Poor Little Innocent Lamb," a short story by Katherine Patterson, Miss Lettie and Me stars Mary Tyler Moore as Lettie Anderson, an embittered oldster who has been forced throughout her life to sacrifice any chance for lasting happiness. Living on a remote farm with only her handyman Read More

A Most Deadly Family

Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kime

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Jean Stapleton, Gabriel Olds

Synopsis: In one of the most startling examples of "playing against type" in TV history, beloved sitcom icon Mary Tyler Moore stars as Sante Chamber Kimes, a woman who was accurately described during her trial for murder as "...a sociopath of unremitting violence, the most remorseless degenerate ever to Read More

Mary and Rhoda

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper, Marisa Ryan, Elon Gold

Synopsis: Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) and Rhoda Morgenstern (Valerie Harper) from The Mary Tyler Moore Show reunite in this made-for-TV movie. In this go around, both Mary and Rhoda find themselves alone after the death of Mary's husband and Rhoda's divorce. Both try to jumpstart their dormant careers Read More

Labor Pains

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Rob Morrow, Kyra Sedgwick

Synopsis: Sarah (Kyra Sedgwick) is a New York City columnist who falls in love with -- and quickly gets pregnant by -- Ryan (Rob Morrow), a free-spirited artist who promptly vanishes for eight months. Ryan, of course, has no idea he's going to be a father, and neither do her protective parents (Mary Tyler Read More

King of the Hill: Won't You Pimai Neighbor?

King of the Hill: Revenge of the Lutefisk

CBS: The First 50 Years

Actors: Adam Arkin, Ed Bradley, Carol Burnett, David Copperfield, Roma Downey

Synopsis: This two-hour TV entertainment special takes a surface skim (95 minutes minus commercials and promos) over the history of CBS, quickly skipping past decades of CBS radio to concentrate on CBS television from the late '40s to the present. It features more than a dozen hosts (Adam Arkin, Ed Bradley, Carol Burnett Read More

Three Cats From Miami And Other Pet Practitioners

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore

Synopsis: Mary Tyler Moore is the host of this TV special, taped at Atlanta's Rialto Center for the Performing Arts before a live audience of dogs and people. Promoting the Pet Partners Project of the Delta Society, this mock awards show honors animals which have aided the disadvantaged, such as Frosty, a Read More

Rosie O'Donnell's Kids Are Punny

Actors: Rosie O'Donnell

Synopsis: Important issues that may affect a child's life are portrayed in a lighthearted but sincere manner in this HBO special based on Rosie O'Donnell's book by the same name. O'Donnell shows how laughter and a sense of humor are a vital part of dealing with things that might be beyond one's immediate Read More

Payback

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Fredric Lane

Synopsis: Mary Tyler Moore is reunited with her onetime sitcom costar Edward Asner in this anything-but-funny TV movie melodrama. While closing down her restaurant late one night, Kathryn Stanfill (Moore) notices a prowler hanging around outside. She quickly summons the police, only to stand by in horror as Read More

How the Toys Saved Christmas

Synopsis: In this animated feature from Disney, Santa Claus' anointed helper Granny Rose (the voice of Mary Tyler Moore) falls ill and turns her toy-delivery duties over to the sneaky and conniving profiteer Mr. Grimm (voice of Tony Randall). When the toys discover Grimm's plans to sell them off come Read More

Flirting With Disaster

Actors: Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, Mary Tyler Moore, George Segal, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: In this satirical comedy, Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) has a beautiful wife, Nancy (Patricia Arquette), and a four-month old son, and on the surface his life is good. But something's been troubling him: Mel knows he was adopted, and he can't resolve his issues with the mother who gave him away years Read More

Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden

Synopsis: When her little nephew visits her and her overbearing sisters, a rather naïve, simple-minded young woman finds herself inundated with terrifying memories of a childhood trauma. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Keys to Tulsa

Actors: Eric Stoltz, James Spader, Cameron Diaz, Randy Graff, Joanna Going, Mary Tyler Moore, Michael Rooker, James Coburn

Synopsis: The black sheep son of a wealthy family sinks deeper into corruption the harder he tries to pull himself out in this drama. Richter Boudreau (Eric Stoltz) is a small-time film critic with a checkered past and some bad debts who decides to return to his old home town of Tulsa in hopes of getting Read More

Frasier: Frasier Crane's Day Off

Synopsis: Struck down by the flu, Frasier is too ill to do his daily radio advice show, so his brother, Niles (David Hyde Pierce), offers to fill in -- with great trepidation. Despite an early attack of stage fright, Niles performs brilliantly on the air. In fact, he performs a bit too brilliantly to suit Read More

Stolen Babies

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Lea Thompson, Kathleen Quinlan, Mary Nell Santacroce, Tom Nowicki

Synopsis: Inspired by a 60 Minutes story, the made-for-cable Stolen Babies is the fact-based story of supposed "angel of mercy" Georgia Tann. Throughout the 1940s, Ms. Tann oversaw the adoption of children from her Tennessee orphanage. Since she was considered a pillar of the community, few questioned Read More

Shalom Sesame: Passover - Jerusalem Jones and the Lost Afikoman

Synopsis: Shalom Sesame 10: Passover -- Jerusalem Jones and the Lost Afikoman is the tenth tape in the Muppets special edition series, Shalom Sesame, an educational journey through ancient and modern Israel. Kids meet old and new Muppet friends on Rechov Sumsum, the Israeli version of Sesame Street Read More

The Last Best Year

Synopsis: Terminally ill Bernadette Peters develops a deep friendship with psychologist Mary Tyler Moore in this drama. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Mary Tyler Moore

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Elvis Costello

Synopsis: This 1989 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Mary Tyler Moore and features musical guest Elvis Costello. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Thanksgiving Day

Synopsis: In this black comedy, a wealthy but flaky family tries to deal with their lives after their bizarre father suffers a fatal heart-attack on Thanksgiving and falls face first into the turkey. Now the family must somehow get their act together enough to pay bills and make funeral arrangements. Read More

Gore Vidal's Lincoln

Synopsis: Originally telecast in two parts on March 27 and 28 of 1988, Lincoln was adapted from the bestselling "factual fiction" by Gore Vidal. Sam Waterston stars as Abraham Lincoln, with Mary Tyler Moore frighteningly convincing as the tragic Mary Todd Lincoln. Predictably, Part One of Lincoln deals with Read More

Just Between Friends

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Christine Lahti, Ted Danson, Sam Waterston, Salome Jens

Synopsis: A timid aerobics instructor learns that her new best friend is also her husband's mistress in this domestic drama starring Mary Tyler Moore. Suffering from a bit of empty-nest syndrome as her children pass through adolescence, indecisive homemaker Holly Davis (Moore) reluctantly accepts a Read More

Finnegan Begin Again

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Robert Preston, Sylvia Sidney

Synopsis: Written by Walter Lockwood and directed by Joan Micklin Silver, Finnegan Begin Again is a whimsical comedy drama about a late-blooming romance. Robert Preston plays a Mike Finnegan, 65-year-old newspaperman resigned to wasting his time on a lonely hearts column and caring for his ailing Read More

Heartsounds

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, James Garner, Sam Wanamaker, Wendy Crewson, David Gardner

Synopsis: Successfully sustaining its dramatic intensity for 150 minutes, Heartsounds was adapted by Fay Kanin from the autobiographical best-seller by Martha Weiman Lear. James Garner stars as Mrs. Lear's husband, Manhattan urologist Harold Lear. At 53, Lear suffers a debilitating heart attack. His Read More

Six Weeks

Actors: Dudley Moore, Mary Tyler Moore, Katherine Healy, Shannon Wilcox, Bill Calvert

Synopsis: Tony Bill directed this sentimental weepie starring Dudley Moore as California politician Patrick Dalton. When Nicole (Katherine Healy), the daughter of the well-to-do Charlotte Dreyfus (Mary Tyler Moore) asks to work for his campaign, Patrick initially turns her down. But when he discovers that Read More

Ordinary People

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth McGovern

Synopsis: Robert Redford's directorial debut ended up the 1980 Oscar winner for Best Picture. It is a simple but painfully emotional story of the disintegration of a "perfect" family. Teenager Conrad (Timothy Hutton) lives under a cloud of guilt after his brother drowns after their boat capsizes in Lake Read More

Celebrity Commercials and Bloopers

Synopsis: This entertaining vintage video offers up some very funny classic commercials from TV and movie personalities. Watch for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" and "You Bet Your Life." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

First, You Cry

Synopsis: NBC correspondent Betty Rollin's book about her own mastectomy, First You Cry, was adapted for television by Carmen Culver. Mary Tyler Moore plays Ms. Rollins, who discovers after her breast surgery that her "loving" husband (Anthony Perkins) is a cad who can't withstand the pressure of living Read More

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 07

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis: While The Mary Tyler Moore Show no longer enjoyed Top 20 ratings as the series entered its seventh season, CBS hoped that the show would last forever as the linchpin of its Saturday-night lineup. However, series star Mary Tyler Moore (cast as Mary Richards, newscast producer at Minneapolis TV Read More

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 06

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis: If for no other reason, the sixth season of The Mary Tyler Moore would be memorable for the Emmy-winning episode "Chuckles Bites the Dust," which has been listed in innumerable media publications as one of the funniest sitcom episodes of all time. Just in case you need remembering, this is the Read More

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 05

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis: Season five of The Mary Tyler Moore Show gets under way with all but one of its familiar regular characters in attendance: Valerie Harper has departed the series in the role of Rhoda Morganstern to star in her own weekly spin-off, Rhoda. However, Harper and Mary Tyler Moore would be reunited in a Read More

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: A Boy's Best Friend

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Series star Mary Tyler Moore made her directorial debut (and swan song) with this episode, which focuses on neurotic TV anchorman Ted Baxter (Ted Knight). It is bad enough when Ted's mother develops a romance with an old duffer named Walter Tewksbury (Nolan Leary). But Ted is really knocked for a Read More

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 04

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, Gavin MacLeod, Valerie Harper

Synopsis: The big news of The Mary Tyler Moore Show's fourth season is the introduction of a new regular: Betty White as Sue Ann Nivens, the host of WJM-TV's "Happy Homemaker" household-hints show. Outwardly sweet and Pollyanna-ish, Sue Ann is actually the most predatory female in all of Minneapolis Read More

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 03

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, Gavin MacLeod, Valerie Harper

Synopsis: The eponymous star of The Mary Tyler Moore Show launches her third season in the role of Mary Richards, the still lovable, still unmarried associate producer of "The Six O'Clock News" on Minneapolis TV station WJM-TV. Also returning are the familiar supporting characters: irascible producer Lou Read More

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 02

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, Gavin MacLeod, Valerie Harper

Synopsis: Like the series' heroine, Mary Richards, The Mary Tyler Moore Show is a lot more confident and secure with itself as the program enters its second season. After a full year in Minneapolis, our Mary is handling her duties as associate producer of WJM-TV's nightly news broadcast with admirable Read More

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 01

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, Gavin MacLeod, Valerie Harper

Synopsis: "How will you make it on your own?" These lyrics from the original version of the Mary Tyler Moore Show's theme song, "Love Is All Around" were the first words heard by the viewers as 30-year-old Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) left her hometown and drove into Minneapolis in the opening episode Read More

Change of Habit

Actors: Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara McNair, Jane Elliot, Leora Dana

Synopsis: Dr. John Carpenter (Elvis Presley) helps the economically disadvantaged in an inner-city medical clinic. Three nuns are assigned to help out at the facility and are allowed to wear regular clothes instead of the traditional habits. Sister Michelle (Mary Tyler Moore) is the speech therapist who Dr. Read More

Run a Crooked Mile

Synopsis: Made for television, Run a Crooked Mile is an kaleidoscopic espionager filmed in Britain. Louis Jourdan plays a schoolteacher on holiday who is injured in an serious auto accident. When he awakens, Jourdan discovers that two years have elapsed, during which time he has lived the life of a wealthy Read More

What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

Actors: George Peppard, Mary Tyler Moore, Dom DeLuise, John McMartin, Nathaniel Frey

Synopsis: In this comedy, New York City undergoes a dramatic change when a toucan carrying a strange virus is smuggled through customs. In those it infects, the virus causes an intense euphoria and a desire to do good. The first man to receive the infected bird is a misanthropic, cynical artist who lives in Read More

Don't Just Stand There!

Actors: Robert Wagner, Mary Tyler Moore, Glynis Johns, Harvey Korman, Barbara Rhoades

Synopsis: This comedy finds American writer Lawrence Colby (Robert Wagner) augmenting his scribing income by smuggling Swiss watch parts into France. Martine (Mary Tyler Moore) enlists his help to find her friend Sabine (Glynis Johns), an author of erotic novels. Sabine is vacationing in Greece, but crooks Read More

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Actors: Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing, John Gavin

Synopsis: George Roy Hill directed this original musical set the 1920s that mixes pop standards with new tunes written by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen. Julie Andrews, in a role that recalls her Broadway triumph in The Boy Friend, stars as Millie Dillmount, who comes to New York is search of a secretarial Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Season 05

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Carl Reiner, Larry Mathews

Synopsis: Although the ratings of The Dick Van Dyke Show had diminished since the series' all-time high during its third season, the show was still among CBS' most popular offerings -- and one of the network's most prestigious efforts, with four Emmy awards and two Golden Globes to its credit. Even so, star Dick Van Dyke Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Season 04

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Carl Reiner, Larry Mathews

Synopsis: Having reached its peak popularity during its third season on the air, The Dick Van Dyke Show faltered a bit in the ratings during season four, dropping to seventh place in the overall ratings. This, however, had absolutely no effect on the excellent quality of the series' writing, nor the stellar Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Season 03

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Carl Reiner, Larry Mathews

Synopsis: Matriculating from noble failure to major success during its second season on the air, The Dick Van Dyke Show sailed into its third season without a ripple on the water. Though it is surely unnecessary by now, it is hereby noted that the series' main cast still consisted of Dick Van Dyke as Rob Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Season 02

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews

Synopsis: The best thing that ever happened to The Dick Van Dyke Show was The Beverly Hillbillies. After languishing in a low-rated Tuesday night slot throughout its first season, Dick Van Dyke was moved to Wednesday during season two -- with Hillbillies, CBS' number one attraction, as its lead-in. Though Read More

X-15

Actors: David McLean, Charles Bronson, Ralph Taeger, Brad Dexter, Kenneth Tobey

Synopsis: This oddly technical drama about three test pilots for the X-15 devotes a great deal of time to scientific explanations and militarese, leaving slightly less time to examine the personal lives and motivations of the three pilots. The head honcho among the pilots is Lt. Col. Lee Brandon (Charles Bronson Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show [TV Series]

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews

Synopsis: It is now part of TV folklore that the classic sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show was originally conceived as a starring vehicle for the series' creator, Carl Reiner. In the pilot episode "Head of the Family," filmed in New York in 1959, Reiner played TV comedy writer Rob Petrie (then pronounced Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Season 01

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews

Synopsis: The first season of The Dick Van Dyke Show finds all the familiar ingredients firmly in place, even if they haven't completely jelled yet. Dick Van Dyke is given ample opportunity to show off his genius for physical comedy in the role of Rob Petrie, head writer for TV's "The Alan Brady Show." Morey Amsterdam Read More

Wanted: Dead or Alive - The Twain Shall Meet

Synopsis: Taken from the popular television series, an enthusiastic reporter follows around bounty hunter Josh Randall in an episode entitled "The Twain Shall Meet." ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

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