Once Mary gets nominated for a Teddy Award everything starts going disastrously wrong for her at work—and at the awards dinner.

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Against her better judgment, Mary gets drawn back into a romantic affair when an ex-boyfriend who broke her heart returns to Minneapolis.

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Murray sinks into a deep depression and feels life has totally passed him by after he learns that a former writing classmate has won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism.

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Lou Grant realizes he's in over his head when the new boss at the Television station turns out to be a woman—who promptly falls in love with him.

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Rhoda’s boyfriend finds the perfect guy for Mary, but unfortunately the guy is a bit overzealous in his intent to marry Mary and won’t take no for an answer.

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Mary and Rhoda decide it’s time they have a heart-to-heart talk with Georgette, since it appears that Ted is taking his new girlfriend way too much for granted.

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Phyllis schemes to have her brother fall in love and get married to Mary, but her plans go awry when her brother falls for Rhoda instead.

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Lou achieves a lifelong dream when he becomes the owner of his favorite bar, but he quickly realizes he just doesn’t have what it takes to keep the customers coming back for more.

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Mary once again finds herself cast in the role of the “other woman” when an ex-boyfriend invites her to his engagement party—much to the dismay of his new fiancée.

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Mary is devastated when Rhoda returns from a vacation in New York and announces she’s accepted a job and will be leaving Minneapolis for the Big Apple.

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Mary’s put in charge after Lou goes to have surgery to remove some World War II shrapnel, a move which causes a different kind of war to break out in the newsroom.

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Mary suddenly finds herself in the uncomfortable position of being the “other woman” after Phyllis’s daughter’s 15-year old boyfriend develops a crush on her.

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Mary’s father is having trouble adjusting to his new life in the city because he misses his old buddies, so Mary invites him to lunch with her and Lou Grant.

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If Mary is crushed when she learns the marriage of her long-time friends is coming to an end, she’s stunned when she realizes the husband wants to start dating her after the divorce.

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Lou realizes he’s made a big mistake after he signs a new contract that allows Ted to earn extra money appearing in TV commercials on several local television stations.

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Mary tries to help out when the station’s “Chuckles the Clown” writer quits his job in order to fulfill his lifelong ambition of performing as a stand-up comedian.

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When Mary’s parents move into a new house just around the corner from her apartment and then start planning her social schedule, Mary turns to Rhoda for advice.

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Even though she’s lost 20 pounds, Rhoda still feels fat and hopeless, but then Hempel’s Department Store invites her to enter a beauty contest.

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When Lou is kept from joining his poker pals in Las Vegas, he insists Mary set up a poker game at work—much to the dismay of ex-compulsive gambler Murray.

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Rhoda is shocked when her parents arrive for a visit and her mother reveals that she’s convinced her husband is seeing another woman.

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Lou’s promotion to program manager leaves Murray in charge of the newsroom, a task which (it is quickly apparent!) he is totally unqualified to handle.

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A local newspaper columnist, who Lou is convinced loves to destroy people’s reputations, interviews Mary about being the only woman in the newsroom at WJM.

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Both Lou and Ted are unhappy about the upbeat “happy news” format Mary has been assigned to develop for the “Six O’Clock News.”

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Mary helps an incompetent city councilman, Pete Peterson, prepare for his interview on WJM's "Face the People," but it turns out his ignorance perfectly suits the interviewer: Ted.

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Mary questions her new friendship with the polished Joanne Forbes after she discovers the woman doesn't want to invite Rhoda to her country club because Rhoda is Jewish.

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The fire that destroys Rhoda's apartment almost destroys her friendship with Mary after the two friends attempt to live together while Rhoda's apartment is being repaired.

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Mary finds herself in a sticky situation when her landlady, Phyllis Lindstrom, asks for help in getting an essay her daughter Bess wrote for English class published.

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When the apartment directly below Mary's becomes available, she happily spreads the word at the television station - until Ted expresses an interest in moving in.

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Mary has agreed to babysit her landlady's daughter, Bess, for the weekend, but when her old flame, "Sandy," surprises her with a date, she finds an unlikely substitute in the form of Lou.

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Murray's plan to surprise his wife, Marie, with an expensive foreign car backfires when the second job he takes to earn extra money makes him too tired to work his day job.

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Mary feels guilty when her complaint gets a waitress named Randy fired. So when Randy applies for a job at the station, Mary hires her, only to learn firsthand the meaning of true incompetence.

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Mary's initial excitement over going out with the governor's executive adviser begins to wane after he repeatedly calls off date after date at the last minute.

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Mary explains the facts of life and love to Ted when he falls head over heels in love with the daughter of Chuckles the Clown, Betty Bowerchuck, after appearing on Chuckles' show.

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When Lou needs help finding an interior decorator, Mary's suggestion that he hire Rhoda results in a hilarious conflict of tastes - and costs.

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When Rhoda is fired from her job as a window-dresser, Mary tries to help her find new work - just as long as it isn't the job that just became available at WJM.

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Lou takes Mary and Rhoda to a movie while his wife is out of town and ends up bumping into his favorite son-in-law, Bill Phelps, who is also out with another woman.

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When Mary receives a chain letter from Lou and is warned not to break the chain, she struggles to find a way to pass it along without generating undesirable consequences.

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A terrified Ted finds himself pleading for his job after his temporary vacation replacement, Rod Porter, rockets the station's newscast from last to second place in the ratings.

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A newswriters' strike leaves Mary and Lou alone at the WJM station with Mary struggling to write news stories in Murray's place, and Lou stuttering to deliver it on camera.

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Rhoda comes along to Mary's high school reunion where Mary is not only needled about being single, but also bumps into her least favorite ex-boyfriend, Howard Arnell.

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When Ted's competitive and successful, model brother, Hal, comes to town, Ted tries to impress him by introducing Mary as his girlfriend.

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Rhoda's mother, Ida, comes to visit, and after seeing Phyllis' relationship with Bess, decides to bridge the generation gap by becoming Rhoda's new best friend.

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Mary decides to take a television journalism course at night school and while she doesn't get the best grades, she does end up getting a few dates from her instructor.

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The success of Mary and Rhoda's vacation to Mexico depends on whether they're willing to deliver a mysterious package across the border for an owner of a Mexican restaurant.

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Lou sets up a blind date with Mary and one of his old friends, Mike Cooper, then has second thoughts and decides he'd better go along as a chaperone.

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When Mary produces a documentary called, "What's Your Sexual I.Q.?," the station gets swamped with calls, and she is asked by her landlady, Phyllis, to teach her daughter, Bess, about the "facts of life."

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Lou Grant is fired when the news show ratings drop, and a new manager takes over the television station.

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Rhoda falls in love with a successful man who has resigned his lucrative position to study to become a forest ranger.

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An old friend uses a childhood relationship as Mary's campmate to introduce herself into the lives of Mary, Rhoda, and the entire newsroom.

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Mary goes into the hospital for a minor operation and draws a cantankerous roommate.

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After numerous Broadway rejections, a newsroom friend's play is finally produced by the Twin Cities Playhouse.

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Mary loses most of her possessions in two apartment burglaries.

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Mary finds herself becoming romantically involved with a married man.

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Mary sadly prepares to leave her newsroom friends to start on a new job.

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The mother of Mary's date becomes very upset because she believes Mary is engaged to her other son.

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Mary's elaborate holiday plans are cancelled when she learns she must work on Christmas Day.

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Mary is forced to hold off the romantic advances of a young cameraman at the television station.

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A speaking engagement for television newsman Ted Baxter turns into a disastrous experience.

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Mary Richards decides that honesty is the best policy when she learns that her income tax return is about to be audited.

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Mary Richards hires her friend Phyllis as her newsroom assistant with disastrous results.

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Rhoda finally finds a boyfriend, but when she introduces him he becomes more interested in Mary.

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A heavy snowstorm on election night forces a very nervous Mary Richards to produce her first television news show.

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Mary becomes romantically involved with an author who is at least a foot shorter than she is.

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Rhoda's mother pays a visit to Minneapolis, but Rhoda refuses to see her.

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An ex-professional football player seeking a job as a sports announcer decides to attach himself to Mary.

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To qualify for group rates for a trip to Paris, Mary and Rhoda join a club for divorced people.

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Against her will, Mary finds herself the adoptive mother of her next door neighbor's child.

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Mary Richards and Rhoda Morgenstern are distressed at being 30 and single and decide to do something about it.

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Mary Richards says goodbye to a four-year romance and hello to a new career in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

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