MTM Last Show Curtain Call

[powerghost216]

This is one show that will carry on into 2012, and beyond!!

[utbob2010]

34 years later and I still get a lump in my throat when I see this episode. The best damn tv series ever.

It truly was the best time in my life and this show was so much part it.

Thank you WJM

[MrLantern2814]

Robby Rist appears in Mary Tyler Moore and the show ends. Curse you Cousin Oliver!!!

[njplr]

The greatest sitcom ever. Sure there were other great ones - but something about this ensemble that inspired laughter, love, loyalty like no other. 34 years ago it ended - and I remember it like it was yesterday. Thank you for posting.

[georgelee43211]

NBC-TV Sanford & Son ended with a routine episode with no big good-bye that same year[1976-77] Maude ended witha 3 part episode the next year[1977-78]then everybody joined the farewell episode bandwagon .

[joepod]

Wow...Betty White was old back in 1977!

[JcbsebrighRIP]

copyright violation-reported !!!

[ashleythewriter]

@JcbsebrighRIP seriously? 

[adelgado75]

TV sucks now!!! Hahaha.

Well not all of it. There are no more great tv themes. There aren't even any opening or closing credits. They squeeze everything in and move on to the next show.

[laurawilder1234]

I love the Mary Tyler Moore show!!!!!!!! I'm only 14 and I love it!!!!!!! I was doooooo sad when Rhoda left the show. She was my fav character. I still love it!!!!!!!!

[BurgerChefGuy]

Gosh! I recall the night this aired and all the TV stations carried the story afterward. I have so many memories with this show over the years. I went through a lot of things growing up with this. Seeing it takes me back to that night and I feel the same as I did then. Its simply magic when shows and music have the power to take us back in time.

[smas2653]

They have restored this ending on the final episode on the recently released Season 7 DVD box set!

[MultiFrankie11]

I thought I'd never see this curtain call again. Thanks for posting it :)

[cmulwee001]

Was this one of the first series finales to end with someone turning off the light? So many shows ended that way: One Day at A Time, Growing Pains, and most recently, As The World Turns. Again, is this the first time that was ever done?

[2008ljr]

That was a superb cast!

[teeboz31222]

Omg i just got done watching the last show of MTM and just found out my dvd doesnt have the curtain call which really T's me off! I love the show too its my fav. show and i am only 14 years old. I also love classic showS like MTM, DVD, The Golden Girls and I Love Lucy. My friends make fun of me too for liking such "old" shows but screw them because i dont care I love my shows. Mary is the PERFECT role model for young girls and I love Mary Tyler Moore!!!

[burbank]

@teeboz31222 Glad you are enjoying such a classic show. You should ask your friends to watch it with you sometime. They may enjoy a quality classic show.

[teeboz31222]

@burbank oh trust me I have tried to get my best friend to like my shows but she thinks they are stupid. Every time she says they are stupid I punch her so it all evens out lol

[tsntana]

I remember somewhere I found a clip of an interview or something of Mary saying that the tears and emotions in that last scene were real. It's very evident here.

Thank you for posting this for the benefit of those who weren't around to see it when it aired.

[mojay11]

Wow! I never seen that ending before on the last episode of MTMS where she introduced the cast for the last time, that is pretty cool. I wish they had put that in the syndication version of that episode. I hate it when they put these shows in syndication and they cut out certain parts of the show.

[LuigiDude1808]

Oh, BTW, this will be included in the 7th season DVD :D

[cmulwee001]

Another MTM show with a curtain call end credit sequence would be The Last Newhart. Bob thanks the supporting cast, Mary Fran, Tom Poston, Julia Duffy etc. as the onscreen credits roll, then the MTM cats yell "QUIET!", the ONLY word said by the two Daryls!

[somewhatlongdong]

the ending always made me cry, when the bus pulled away.

[excuseyou77]

YES! According to the Fox press release at the tvshowsondvd website the seventh season DVD WILL have this original curtain call credit roll!

[LuigiDude1808]

This is so good quality for 1977!!!

Howd you get it?

Do you have a quality clearity thing? :)

[JAldridge86]

@LuigiDude1808 Thanks! A friend sent me this clip. I think she got the episode from someone who actually recorded it in 1977. V-Matic or Betamax I am guessing.

[JAldridge86]

@JAldridge86 Correction, U-matic.

[fishdeschois]

Oh, God, I remember this! I was eleven years old, and watching "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" with my dad was one of the few fond memories I have from that time.

[AarHan3]

She really made it after all. Hail and farewell, Mary Richards. ;^)

[barryt60]

i would like the final season opening and closing songs for my ipod... anyone know where you could buy a clearer copy?

[TheTzdope]

robbie rist also took down the brady bunch after 5 seasons!!

[hankaaron1961]

Robbie Rist was a late addition to the cast. No wonder the show got cancelled.

[pkwfireteacher]

I thank you so much for posting this great show on youtube. I remember when the MTM Show was on primetime. I enjoyed it back then and I enjoy it even today.

Excellent programming.

Thanks again.

[fromthesidelines]

The "curtain call" credits was supposed to be seen ONLY ONCE, on March 19, 1977 [Mary obviously didn't want her "farewell to the audience" to be repeated unto infinity]; when the episode was repeated for the last time on the network on September 3, 1977- and in future syndicated prints- the "standard" closing credits were substituted.

[wildman0228]

Thanks for sharing this! I remember it in 1977 & had not seen it since! It was not on the video MTM (Columbia House) - and I am wondering if they will include it for the Season 7 DVD. What a GREAT show this was.

[sre65ct]

I watched this when it aired. I always remembered that she said something about seven great years, but I was wrong.

[koln1996]

What do you mean?

Wrong?

[sre65ct]

She said, "best cast ever"...not "best cast for 7 years" as I had remembered it incorrectly.

[Ryhela]

Brilliant show - thanks for the memories. Wish more shows today had this energy, intelligence, emotion that so captured viewers in the stories and characters.

[cinematedman]

I've never seen the curtain call. Unbelievable! I don't mean to be greedy, but do you have a higher quality version?

[JAldridge86]

I wish I did, this was sent to me by another fan from it's original 1977 airing. It looks pretty good from a recording over thirty years old. :)

[cinematedman]

Yeah, it looks real good. And the new DVDs which are pristine, of course, won't contain it since this was a one time event. Maybe somebody will come out with more. Youtube is wonderful for this kind of thing. Thanks again.

[ShowoffNYC]

Wat a treat it was to see this tie first time it aired. And for those of us of a certain age and a certain location, the MTM Show did enjoy a popular second wind. It was usually when most of us were getting our second wind. From 1982-83, WNBC-TV in NYC used to air MTM right after NBC News Overnight. At times they would air up to 5 episodes of MTM back to back. The entire series would cycle every approximately six weeks. For a news junkie, it was pure bliss. I didn't sleep for 17 months!

[JAldridge86]

Exactly, and lest we forget its run on Nick at Nite and TV Land. I'd say the series didn't even rest until 2003.

[dvlaries]

@ShowoffNYC Exactly. In her autobiography, "And So It Goes," Linda Ellerbee even mentioned the staff of NBC News Overnight themselves would watch the WNBC reruns when they were done their own show (and eat a lot of pizza too). I was just below Trenton New Jersey in those years but had a very large outdoor antenna and could pull NY stations. Channel 4 New York, in those days was an insomniacs best friend.

[nemoism]

@ShowoffNYC I remember that! and Dr. Ben Casey would come on after or before!

[somewhatlongdong]

Other than Ted Knight, all of these people are still alive. i wish they would have a reunion show before the rest of the cast passes into history.

[JAldridge86]

They've already had three. 1991, 2002, and 2008.

[somewhatlongdong]

lol..i didn't know that.  but what can one more hurt?

[JAldridge86]

Why not? :)

[PC3900]

This show's greatness is indisputible, but it has never really enjoyed a popular second wind.

[JAldridge86]

I'd say it did... until 2003.

[somewhatlongdong]

Thanks for posting this. I was only 8 at the time, but I loved this show.

[jms5353]

One of the best TV shows ever! Love Mary, love the whole cast!

[fusock]

The best comedy series ever, along with "I Love Lucy", "The Simpsons", "The Golden Girls", "Sex and the City" and "Roseanne".

The top 6 episodes for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" are:

"Love is All Around" (season 1)

"Put on a Happy Face" (season 3)

"Once I Had a Secret Love" (season 6)

"Chuckles Bites the Dust" (season 6)

"Phyllis Whips Inflation" (season 5)

"The Lars Affair" (season 4)

"The Last Show" (season 7)

[ClassicTVChazz]

What an incredible post! Absolutely incredible.  Brings tears to my eyes.

[ClarenceFisher]

@ClassicTVChazz I know that when Season 7 comes out and I see the last show, I know I'll start crying - 32 years plus later, the fact that they were all fired still gets to me.

[cinematedman]

So moving. Amazing how a TV show can such an impact on so many lives. And it's good to know it affected those who were part of it as much as it affected us who watched it. Truly, we're all one very large family.

[TheMashwatcher585]

my guess was when they aired the final curtin call, that must had aired when it was on national television when the series finale ended.

[selsar]

:-(

[curb1510]

Fantastic that you posted this. Power-house cast.

[jscott1000]

Thanks for posting this ultra rare footage

[djkst35]

Thanks! When the show aired on Nick at Nite in the 1990s, they never showed the curtain call ending.

[dav1237]

The curtain call ending was only shown once! It was not only cut out for syndication but the original Saturday night rerun had the traditional ending credits put in!!

[DorisDayFanatic]

OMG thank you so so so so so much for this!!! <3

[KingofGames475]

Let's just hope that when season 7 comes to dvd, they will do the show some justice and have the original ending on the episode, if not that, at least as a special feature

[kwebster62]

@KingofGames475

Season 7 is out this week and the Curtain call is on there. Some have reported an error in the dvd and the curtain call is missing for them. FOX is issuing replacement disks for those with the missing curtain call.

[TheQuentinStuckey]

@kwebster62 I bought the season 7 DVD yesterday and my copy has the curtain call on it.I first started watching this show when I was 9, I'm now 13 and I still enjoy it to this day.

[kwebster62]

@TheQuentinStuckey That's funny. I started watching this show when I was 8 (back when it first aired in 1970) and I still enjoying watching it too. Glad to see new fans are enjoying it as well.

[TheQuentinStuckey]

@kwebster62 That's exactly what my parents said when I told them that I loved the show.I'm a big fan of classic sitcoms like Mary Tyler Moore,Andy Griffith,Petticoat Junction,Golden Girls and more.Alot of my friends think it's lame but I could care less.

[steven1660]

@TheQuentinStuckey Your're 13 and like the Mary Tyler Moore Show! Thats awsome! I started watching it when i was young also, and now im 22 and it's still one of the funniest shows I have ever seen!

[MrHanMi]

How strangely wonderful to see something on YouTube that you haven't seen in more than 30 years!

[csebrigh]

the great Mary Tyler Moore............timeless

[tvfantic12]

this is so sad:(

i love this show

[dav1237]

When Rosie asked Mary why, she quipped "film is money."

[joycollector]

OMIGOD! HOW DID YOU GET THIS?!

I've always wanted to see the "lost ending" of the final episode ever since Rosie O'Donnell was interviewing Mary on her talk show years ago, and Rosie asked, "How come they never show the original ening of the last episode, with the curtain call, etc" and Mary said she had no idea why it was never shown again.

[MTMFan]

Thanks for posting, Justin. Such a great moment. *Sniffle*

[JAldridge86]

Thank you, Kristen, for sending me the clip! :)

[ACuriousDanceretc]

Makes me wanna cry everytime  I love them!!!