Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman plays Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the 1970s highlight neighbor who treats other people’s living rooms as a stage. Self-absorption with Olympic timing: she made vanity funny without sanding it into a catchphrase. MTM’s ensemble is a city of specialists; Phyllis is the one who walks in already starring in a different series.

Phyllis Lindstrom is the named job on The Mary Tyler Moore Show; The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS, 1970–1977) is only the stamp. A clean first hour is s01e01: The hat as premiere thesis. A leading lady launched without a husband as gravity. Watch Leachman for stance. The rest of the run will keep; the temperature is the file.

Phyllis bets that a supporting comic can carry an hour in San Francisco with no Mary safety net. Physical comedy as contact sport, the catalog spin-off that lets the neurosis lead. On TV Flash Leachman is 1970s sitcom voltage you can still feel in the furniture — a landlady of attention, forever rearranging the room around herself.

CBS later used Leachman on Phyllis as Phyllis Lindstrom. Start that title at s01e01 — The pilot bets a supporting comic can carry a series. Leachman takes Mary's most self-absorbed neighbor to San Francisco; neurosis leads, no Mary. Leachman does not visit this floor; she works it. s01e02 on The Mary Tyler Moore Show remains a useful hour: The clothing tag as plot: how the world addresses a woman with a job and no ring. s01e16 on Phyllis remains a useful hour: The $17,623,419.53 Man is a precise-dollar title on a vanity sitcom. Leachman still the whole instrument: spin-off craft that lives on a take, not a.