The Mary Tyler Moore Show
A Girl's Best Mother is Not Her Friend
Season 2, Episode 5 · Aired 1971-10-16
Synopsis
When Ida, Rhoda's mother, visits, she sees how well Phyllis and Bess get on, and how closely Mary appears to her mother when they chat on the telephone, that she tries to be Rhoda's "friend".
In the series
This episode is part of The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977) on CBS.
Single working woman energy that made the newsroom a second home.
Key cast
- Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards
- Ed Asner as Lou Grant
- Valerie Harper as Rhoda Morgenstern
- Ted Knight as Ted Baxter
- Betty White as Sue Ann Nivens