Mary Open (1985)

The open to Mary Tyler Moore's sitcom from 1985-86, not to be confused with her 1978 variety show with the same name. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoAHLaNMWMo

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Entertainment

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• mary
• tyler
• moore
• sitcom
• cbs
• 1985

[Edster73]

Hey Justin, thanks for posting. I don't think I ever saw this series, though I'd love to at some point. It's funny how the opening sequence is very similar to Valerie Harper's later series, "City". In fact, I swear the short scene at :47 is almost identical, if not identical, to a scene in the "City" theme. Weird, huh? As if "City" didn't have enough similarities with Harper's old show, "Valerie".

[JAldridge86]

Hey Ed, I shot you a PM about this. Been having trouble with my inbox so I'm making sure you got it. =)

[lehah]

Well, looks like someone wanted to have the opening of Siskle & Ebert's "At The Movies"!

[defundthewar]

@satimaxe I'd never say MTM was an idiot, of course she wasn't. But I'll say this- she has no sense of quality.

I saw this show, as well as her previous variety hours, and then something she did around 1988 called Annie McGuire. And I've concluded that she was just extremely lucky having the writers and director she had with The MTM Show, and she lacks the innate ability to know good from bad material and treatment. Same with Lucille Ball.

[HepburnFlicks]

possibly the most boring opening sequence to a tv sitcom ive ever seen...

[jackhoffencum]

you needed pepto bismol after this juicy nugget.lol.

[satimaxe]

I think Mary Tyler Moore is an idiot. She had the best show on TV back in the 70's with a great cast and she quit. Now she tried to make comeback with this idiodic show and also her variety shows sucked!!!!!! Stick to what you know Mary!!!!!!!

[ShermansAlley]

A sitcom opening should be interesting or funny or both. This one is neither.

[fromthesidelines]

To give you an idea of just how old this show is, the evening's "sponsor" (actually one of them) was "Pepto-Bismol", then marketed by Norwich Eaton Pharmaceuticals; Procter & Gamble bought them out several years later, and they make Pepto-Bismol these days...

[fromthesidelines]

I was one of the people that was involved in a CBS "focus group" concerning this series, shortly after it began in December 1985. My friend and I were in New York, and a CBS rep stopped us on the street, asking us if we'd participate in a "test screening" of an episode. We accepted, and a small group (including us) were ushered into a meeting room [with monitors] at CBS' corporate headquarters on West 52nd Street. We saw the episode- and one I had just seen the week before [no commercials]....

[fromthesidelines]

...and we filled out a questionnere after the screening- did we like the show? Did we like the characters? Did we like the relationship between the characters? If you could change certain elements of the show, how would you do it? Those kind of questions....after we finished, each of us were given a genuine CBS ballpoint pen [with their name and "eye logo" on it], and sent on our way. Whatever answers we gave obviously didn't help, as the series ended after 13 episodes in the spring of '86.

[fromthesidelines]

Dan Foliart & Howard Pearl wrote this theme: if only the series had as much vim, vigor and "grit" as well. This lasted 13 episodes....