Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman promo clip

[ILuvMusic4real]

"Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman". That's the only thing I remember about this show. I was so young.

[cheeriosinabowl]

This show rocked back in the 70's.

It was so off-the-wall, so whacky, so weird, made no sense .... you just had to love it. One-of-a-kind show, never duplicated. 

[parkman35]

Mary Kay Place ws so sexy!

[wb6162]

This show was bad, even by 1976 standards.

[marmas58ink]

Why this show has never re-aired I don't know. I gave up waiting.

Back around 1978 CBS would run a week's worth of episodes... late Friday nights... I'd come in from 'carousing' and catch some, sometimes the prospect of MH on tv seemed more appealing than the burnt out ends of whatever party I was at. I think that's about the last time i saw it...

It surely beats old sitcoms like married w/ children. Someone should petition TBS or CW... b4 I *totally* give up waiting :)

[jazzynet1]

i heard she was a coke addict and anyone who had done coke you do stupid stuff like whipe your teeth etc.. To be honest, my cousin and i were totally mind fucked on some heavy drugs one night and we were watching mary hartman and i remember she went off on one of her tirades. we had to turn that shit off as it was tripping us out to badly :D.

[Chawman]

They released the first season on DVD and then left us hanging. Nothing since. Sony can kiss my ass.

[triptych3z]

stupied!

[earlzwow]

I'd enjoy screaming loudly " Mary Hartman , Mary Hartman ! "

[xvoy2002]

This for sure, was one unusual show. Was on later at night. The plots got stranger and stranger as the show went culminating with Loretta's husband receiving a transplant from a great dane. Was one of a kind, that's for sure.

[videolover61]

This show was the shit!!!!!

[bg147]

loved it

[Bestmanme08]

Martin Mull (Garth Gimble)is in a great new bio (Charlton Heston: An Incredible LIfe: Revised Edition) availalble at amazon!

[biolectron]

WOW .! What a blast from the past i remember this show as a child and could not stand it, perhaps now that I'm older i might appreciate it more.

[suetiggers]

My very favorite was when Loretta's husband had the accident and needed a penis transplant. They showed her husband going to a vet to get one. Mary asked Loretta how sex was after that and Loretta said it was great except when he came, he barked.

really great stuff...I so miss it..nothing like it before or since. We never missed it.

[icabuck]

Does anyone remember the thing Mary did when she, Louise Lasser, used to "dry her teeth" or something. She would rub her front teeth with her index finger. I remember meeting this girl that was such a fan, she picked up this habit.

[hamtrak]

RIP Debralee Scott.

[floydrharper]

Comparing this to the stream of meaningless drivel on TV today makes me long to go back in time...

[jebeja]

floydrharper, You've got that right. Unfortunately, those days are gone forever, and look at the mess and non-sense that has taken it's place now. Thanks for the video what memories in deed.

[blank77]

RIP:Dody Goodman.

[oliveol99]

my fav. late nite show!!! Many memories!!!

[BestManMe09]

Martin Mull (who played Garth Gimble on MHMH) has a naturally lobotomized condition where he is incapable of getting angry. He admitted in a 1978 Newsweek interview that he never yelled in reallife. My brother-in-law has the same condition and as a child was taken to a neurologist by his parents!

[Lala1167]

Ah...the 70s...

When life was so much better!!!

[spacetimecontinuum]

Love love love this show,just hearing the musc makes me feel like i'm 5 again!

[Fersommling]

Ah cain't git me nuff o' Mary Hartman! Sign me ratt up on the dottet lann!

[killerjoebenson]

LOL. Great 70's stuff. All of my friends parents were high except mine.

[subwaysleuth]

Mary is the original Youtube.

[timmytickles]

this is such a fantastic show...in fact, its more than a show, its art...i just love it, its a dream come true that they are being released on dvd!

[ssballs]

WOW.....my favorite American show of the 1970's!No lafftrx for the first time ever!It was a revelation.

[LiquidAtom2]

Watching this show on DVD, I can't say I understand it at all. This is probably because the lack of a laugh track makes me wonder when I'm supposed to laugh. Everything just seems empty and awkward. Yet still I watch it, and I find myself wondering why they aren't releasing more episodes, with the dorkiest bald man ever with back hair, and the eternal repetition of dialogue. I think Susan Harris worked on this and Soap, cause the similarities between the two are startling.

[judithhr]

Not everyone will "get" this show. All three networks turned it down so it was syndicated. When it started to have a large cult following, a network rip-off show (Soap) was born.

[satonakis]

in england just as this series started, we had a massive tv strike and when it was over, thet never put this show back on. does anyone know what happened to the show?

[LiquidAtom2]

Yeah, people went on strike there and it never aired as a result. Hooray for strikers!

[taltsuska]

first person banned from saturday night live - louise lasser

[LiquidAtom2]

I don't know who that is, but anyone banned from SNL must be a good person.

[RayNDeere]

The funny part was, she almost refused to do the show. If she did, Chevy Chase was going to play all her parts ... in a Mary Hartman wig. Bill Murray, who was yet to be in the cast, was there and was to do all of Chevy's parts.

[Ethergirl]

Why was she banned from SNL?

[ohhhwolfy]

Thanks for sharing, it brought back this memory:

When this was popular in '76, we had a required health class in school and the teacher looked and acted exactly like Mary Hartman. Not Louise Lasser, but the character she played...Mary Hartman!!! Right down to the pigtails and the way she acted! It was so unbelieveable, that for the first few minutes of the first class I thought it was a joke.

[ardalsgirl]

Lol oh my God really, that is hilarious!

[fkd1963]

One of the peaks of 1970s television. Viva Reva Rose!

[stan30068]

Mary would always kind of freak out whenever

a jet plane would fly over her house.

[crg64]

This was a great show.

[4321Blastoff]

oh yeah dawg, i never seen this show b4 but like i read in a thread about it online and i'm renting it from netflix when it cums out. WHOOP!

[mrscani]

this show explains alot of why i am the way i am, both good and bad.

[vidnut222]

Hahaaaa! lol :)))

[Khanderrob]

this was a great and addicative show for sure! anyone remember whent the guy who played the husband of Mary kay Place (the blond) lost a testicle and went for transplant surgery and the crazy doctor put a dogs testicle on him...

[fmdog44]

great show

[desertrat5522]

Anybody remember the episode, where the guy drowns in chicken soup

[spikeyparker]

I certainly do. I can't call the episode name, but I remember. How about the time the little evangelist gets electrocuted by the TV in the bathtub.

[desertrat5522]

oh yeah and the one where the daughter gets caught with a joint.

[jr95112]

MHMH will (finally) be making its DVD debut on March 27. Thank you Sony Pictures for answering our prayers.

[dubuffet69]

genuine strangeness, unlike predictable 'reality' tv(which is in essence)an encased readaptation of reality.

[ladylove72]

Oh, I remember that this was my mother's favorite TV show! I don't think she ever missed an episode. I think between this and "Dark Shadows", her life was complete. :)

[ardalsgirl]

Your mom sounds cool lol, I love both of those shows as well. :)

[knovinski]

I get the impression your mother was a real character. I think I would like her!

[faerieguts]

@ladylove72 ahhh Dark Shadows! so classic.