--- title: Mary Tyler Moore: Appreciation of TV Show description: There was a self-awareness to Mary Tyler Moore that makes it feel much closer to today's comedy TV than its place in history would suggest. canonical: https://time.com/4649173/mary-tyler-moore-appreciation/ author: Daniel D'Addario article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-25T20:50:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:56:43.372Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' Depicted Ambition at Its Best og:description: There was a self-awareness to Mary Tyler Moore that makes it feel much closer to today's comedy TV than its place in history would suggest. og:url: https://time.com/4649173/mary-tyler-moore-appreciation/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt24577d24967c2fed/6988b741cd1bba48f3703bd9/mary-tyler-moore4.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Moore & White In 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show" og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' Depicted Ambition at Its Best twitter:description: There was a self-awareness to Mary Tyler Moore that makes it feel much closer to today's comedy TV than its place in history would suggest. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt24577d24967c2fed/6988b741cd1bba48f3703bd9/mary-tyler-moore4.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ Depicted Ambition at Its Best > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Jan 25, 2017 8:50 PM UTC  Mary Tyler Moore and Betty White in a scene from 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', in Los Angeles, in 1975. Mary Tyler Moore and Betty White in a scene from 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', in Los Angeles, in 1975.CBS/Getty Images  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Jan 25, 2017 8:50 PM UTC [Mary Tyler Moore](http://time.com/4649136/mary-tyler-moore-dead-80/) found grace in the everyday insanity of the office. On [_The Mary Tyler Moore Show_](http://time.com/4649257/mary-tyler-moore-best-show-moments/), which ran from 1970 to 1977 (and years after in syndication, which is where I discovered it), Moore was not the agent of chaos. Her character, Mary Richards, often seemed to be one of the only wholly sane people working at Minneapolis’s WJM TV station, burdened as she was with on-air talent either comically inept (Ted Knight) or ruthless (Betty White) as well as a dyspeptic boss (Ed Asner). Moore, who [died Wednesday](http://time.com/4649124/mary-tyler-moore-death-react/) at 80, previously starred in _The Dick Van Dyke Show._ On her eponymous series, she didn’t create the situations. But, with endless good cheer, she made the comedy. There was a self-awareness to _Mary Tyler Moore_ that makes it feel much closer to today’s comedy TV than its place in history would suggest. Rather than fawning or overmatched, Moore measured up, with an easy grin and a razor wit. Her character seemed particularly conscious that the men who surrounded her were subject to insecurities and peccadilloes all their own, ones that made them apt for real humor. Ahead of its time, too, was the show’s depiction of a woman, unmarried and happy that way, focused on the satisfactions of career. (That the career was peppered with petty incidents did not change the fact that it was a legitimate path for this woman, long before it was a legitimate path for women across TV.) Moore’s Minneapolis news producer was radical despite not being _a_ radical; her relationship with Asner’s Lou Grant was warmly cordial even as Lou was unambiguously the boss. (A similar power dynamic, tinging facts on the ground with a sense of optimism that office culture might allow real admiration to break through, is most clearly seen in successor show _30 Rock_.) And Mary and Murray (Gavin MacLeod) had something yet rarer—a platonic friendship between members of the opposite sex untouched by either sex or condescension. In forging the seasons-long story of a woman who wanted to succeed in her field at a time when “wife” was the most readily available role, Moore’s was a sociological victory. It was also an artistic one. The theme song indicates Mary Richards could “turn the world on with her smile.” Mary was, yes, warm and charming, but her smile also held behind it ambition as often rewarded as it was frustrated. 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