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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 417777" data-attributes="member: 23">Martin did leave Ida to go to Florida, but it was framed as a kind of &quot;I need to find myself&quot; mid-life crisis. I don&#039;t know if you remember an earlier episode where Martin was depressed over his perceived lack of accomplishment and it was discovered he&#039;d been sneaking away to play piano in a bar so he felt he was doing something interesting? The Florida business felt like it revisited&nbsp; that territory.In the season opener, Rhoda and Brenda visit the Morganstern home only for Ida to reveal that Martin had left some months earlier and she&#039;d been keeping it from them. The following episode saw Brenda and Rhoda track him down where he explained his reasons. Then he returned home by the middle of the season. In execution, I didn&#039;t hate it, but I did find it a strange choice in a way since Harold Gould appeared in three of the Season Five episodes (almost 25%), whereas he&#039;d only been in two episodes the previous full season and nothing was made of it. If anything it felt as though it was written in to give Gould and Nancy Walker something to do. One satisfying thing is that the reset button was hit as soon as he returned. Ida insisted on him wooing her to win her over again (though Martin&#039;s initial response that it would feel strange to date again after 40+ years of marriage didn&#039;t hold much water with this viewer, all things considered). Oh my. It seems we may have stumbled upon a mystery. Another discovery from looking at the airdates on IMDB: Rhoda aired on British TV in 1981. It went completely under my radar, and I have no memory of it ever being shown or repeated here (unlike Valerie).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 417777, member: 23"] Martin did leave Ida to go to Florida, but it was framed as a kind of "I need to find myself" mid-life crisis. I don't know if you remember an earlier episode where Martin was depressed over his perceived lack of accomplishment and it was discovered he'd been sneaking away to play piano in a bar so he felt he was doing something interesting? The Florida business felt like it revisited that territory. In the season opener, Rhoda and Brenda visit the Morganstern home only for Ida to reveal that Martin had left some months earlier and she'd been keeping it from them. The following episode saw Brenda and Rhoda track him down where he explained his reasons. Then he returned home by the middle of the season. In execution, I didn't hate it, but I did find it a strange choice in a way since Harold Gould appeared in three of the Season Five episodes (almost 25%), whereas he'd only been in two episodes the previous full season and nothing was made of it. If anything it felt as though it was written in to give Gould and Nancy Walker something to do. One satisfying thing is that the reset button was hit as soon as he returned. Ida insisted on him wooing her to win her over again (though Martin's initial response that it would feel strange to date again after 40+ years of marriage didn't hold much water with this viewer, all things considered). Oh my. It seems we may have stumbled upon a mystery. Another discovery from looking at the airdates on IMDB: [I]Rhoda[/I] aired on British TV in 1981. It went completely under my radar, and I have no memory of it ever being shown or repeated here (unlike [I]Valerie[/I]). [/QUOTE]

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