About This Quiz
Fresh off "The Dick Van Dyke Show," Mary Tyler Moore was eager to make a change, with a show focused on a strong, single independent women making her own way -- no man required. Take our quiz to test your knowledge of this pioneering sitcom.Mary was engaged to med student Bill for two years before he broke things off, leaving the 30-year old Mary looking to make a fresh start.
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Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis after ending her relationship with Bill. The show was a major move in TV history, and the show was the first ever to focus on a single, independent career woman.
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Mary is dismayed to learn that the secretary job she applied for has already been filled. She takes an associate producer role instead and later gets promoted to producer.
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Mary works for producer Lou Grant, who hates her spunk, but hires her anyway. Ed Asner played the grumpy but lovable Lou on the show.
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Betty White played The Happy Homemaker Sue Ann Nivens, who was sweet and demure onscreen, but tough to work with when the cameras were off.
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Played by Gavin MacLeod, Murray Slaughter was head writer on the show, as well as Mary's close friend and confidante.
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Ted Knight played the oblivious Ted Baxter, anchor of the Six O'Clock News on WJM.
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Georgette Franklin was Ted's ditsy girlfriend, and later wife, after the two married in Mary's apartment.
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Both Rhoda and Georgette initially work as window dressers for the fictional Hempel's Department Store in Minneapolis.
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Gordy the weather man is a professional -- and the complete opposite of Ted Baxter. He leaves Minneapolis to work in New York City.
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Played by Cloris Leachman, Phyllis Lindstrom was both building manager and friend to Mary.
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Phyllis is married to a dermatologist named Lars, but leaves him after he has an affair with Sue Ann Nivens.
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Lou Grant and the gang faithfully attend the annual Teddy Awards in the hope of picking up a prize. Sue Ann Nivens nabs a Teddy one year for her segment "Cooking Fowl," which she dedicates to an 18-pound turkey.
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In Valerie Harper's final regular appearance on "Mary Tyler Moore," Rhoda starts dating Lou Grant, but the pair can't decide how to define their relationship.
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Mary ends up in the slammer after failing to reveal a source. While behind bars, she befriends two prostitutes, one of whom appears again later in the series.
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Murray and his wife Marie have several daughters and adopt a son from Vietnam in Season 5. Though Marie often worries about the relationship between Mary and Murray, they assure Marie that they are just good friends.
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It's a sad day at WJM when the rarely-seen, but often mentioned, Chuckles the Clown bites the dust.
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Chuckles is killed by an elephant while he is dressed as a peanut. While Mary takes his death very seriously, she cracks up during his funeral.
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After struggling to conceive, Ted and Georgette adopt David -- then find out that Georgette is pregnant with their biological child, Mary Lou.
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Mary develops an addiction to pain killers in one Season 7 episode. Mr. Grant and Murray are so concerned about her, that they barge into her apartment while she's trying to take a relaxing bubble bath.
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One running gag throughout the series was Mary's disastrous attempts to host parties, including one Season 7 event attended by Johnny Carson where the power goes out in Mary's apartment.
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In the final episode of the series, all the cast members are fired from WJM with the exception of anchorman Ted Baxter.
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"Mary Tyler Moore" produced three spinoffs -- "Rhoda," "Phyllis" and "Lou Grant."
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Rhoda leaves Minneapolis to visit her sister Brenda in New York. After falling for Joe Gerard, she stays in the Big Apple and the spinoff "Rhoda" focuses on her new life.
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Viewers loved the union between Rhoda and Joe, who were married eight weeks into Season 1. The show stuck around for five seasons.
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After her husband Lars dies, Phyllis and her daughter Bess move to San Francisco, where Phyllis takes a job in a photography studio.
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Lou moves to L.A. after "Mary Tyler Moore" ends and takes a job as editor at the "Los Angeles Tribune."
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Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper reunited in 2000 for a made-for-TV movie. In the flick, Mary's husband has passed away and Rhoda has just divorced her second husband.
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Mary tosses her hat into the air in front of Donaldson's Department Store to the music of "Love is All Around."
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The show ran for 168 episodes over seven seasons from 1970 to 1977.
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