--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: The Mary Tyler Moore Show image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb04af477ca4e0878/69869f29f983e7079404f310/t100_tv_mary-tyler-moore-show11.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Aug 12, 2014 # _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Everett When the former Mrs. Rob Petrie made it, after all, onto her own sitcom as a single TV-news producer in Minneapolis, it was liberating for women on TV. But it also liberated TV for adults, of both sexes. Since Mary Richards was neither a wife nor a mom nor (a la _That Girl_) a single gal defined mainly by her boyfriend, her self-titled sitcom was able to be a sophisticated show about grownups among other grownups, having grownup conversations. _Moore_ made Mary into a fully realized person, iconic but fallible, competent but flappable (“Mr. Gra-a-a-ant!”), practical but romantic. Mary Richards was human and strong enough to be laughed with and laughed at, and that was the kind of liberation that mattered most. [Get This TV Series](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005JLIC/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103636/the-mary-tyler-moore-show/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103636/the-mary-tyler-moore-show/"},"headline":"The Mary Tyler Moore Show","datePublished":"2014-08-12T14:43:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:01:28.883Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103636/the-mary-tyler-moore-show/","keywords":["Sitcom"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb04af477ca4e0878/69869f29f983e7079404f310/t100_tv_mary-tyler-moore-show11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb04af477ca4e0878/69869f29f983e7079404f310/t100_tv_mary-tyler-moore-show11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103636/the-mary-tyler-moore-show/","name":"The Mary Tyler Moore Show"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Mary Tyler Moore Show","description":"Mary Richards was human and strong enough to be laughed with and laughed at, and that was the kind of liberation that mattered most.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/bN84p0dV/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2007-09-04T19:56:49.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/bN84p0dV.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103636/the-mary-tyler-moore-show/","duration":"PT34S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103636/the-mary-tyler-moore-show/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```