Mary Tyler Moore finds herself in a Midwestern locale as she launches her own situation-comedy series. She plays Mary Richards, 30-ish, unmarried and getting a little desparate about it. She gets a job in a Minneapolis-St. Paul TV newsroom and rents an apartment. The series' producers and head writers, James Brooks and Allan Burns, are alumni of "Room 222" and "He & She", and they are filling their scripts with snappy patter and surrounding their star with a cast of characters who are just that--characters. At work, Mary has to function in the man's world of irascible producer (Edward Asner), a flaky newswriter (Gavin MacLeod) and a narcissistic newscaster (Ted Knight) who wanders around saying, "Hi. I'm Ted Baxter, the anchorman. Welcome to my Six O'Clock News Team." At home, she's surrounded by women, but they're no bargain, either. One is a man-crazy klutz named Rhoda Morgenstern (Valerie Harper) and another is a busybody (Cloris Leachman) with an 11-year-old monster for a daughter (Lisa Gerritsen). This is Middle America? Debut: CBS, Sept. 19.
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