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The Mary Tyler Moore Show - The Complete Fourth Season
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543244301
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 65
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: 2234430
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 20, 2006
Running Time: 613 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: September 19, 1970
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Editorial Review:
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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WJM 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Optimism for Remaining Seasons
The 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 ... Read More
Rating: - Waiting and Waiting and Wating and Waiting and Waiting and Waiting
Season One Excellent Season Two Excellent Season Three Excellent Season Four Excellent...The series ran for seven seasons and I want to know when in the living hell are they ever going to release the other three seasons!!! Is it going to be in our lifetimes? Seasons Five Six and Seven were excellent too.... (Let's face the facts, MTM was and EXCELLENT show) SO why hold off releasing them? It's been several YEARS since the last one was released. IT'S TIME ALREADY!!!! RELEASE SEASONS 5,6 & 7 already!!!! ... Read More
Rating: - Finally!
Each season does, indeed, get better (the three unreleased seasons are the ones that won best comedy Emmys). And, according to yesterday's New York Times, Fox is caving to demand from fans (including Oprah) and making plans to put the last three seasons on DVD.
Rating: - One of the Great TV Show's Greatest Seasons!
This is truly a great season. No longer a bit self conscious about their roles, the actors are doing very well. The writing and directing are amazing. All the cast is in this season as Betty White joins the show and Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman are still on board. This season is just about perfect, what a wonderful show!
Rating:  - Just a "little" disappointed... but not by much!
I spent many Saturday nights throughout the 70's watching Sonny and Cher, the Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show with my family before being sent to bed :o( I am very pleased with this box set, but I only wish the transfers were digitally enhanced (like they were done with Gilligan's Island, McHale's Navy, and F-Troop, for instance). Also, there are no bonuses. No "Where are they now's", no bloopers, behind-the-scenes, interviews, or any other goodies for a television program as popular as this ... Read More
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