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The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961 - 1966)
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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 446031" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p>They announced prior to Season 7 started that it would be the last year for MARY TYLER MOORE, so the audience knew it was coming to an end. Also, ALL IN THE FAMILY had been moved from its Saturday night perch preceding MTM, and MTM was now up against Season 2 of STARSKY & HUTCH (don't laugh -- it made a dent). So MTM's numbers were drooping -- and, after all, every show has its natural arc.</p><p></p><p>I think seven seasons were right for MTM, and Moore has often asked "what were we thinking??" by shutting down her own show, but it ended at the right time and allowed Mary another break where she could try out a couple of variety show efforts which failed, and make a couple of TV movies before relocating to Chicago where she could play passive-aggressive mind games with her youngest son so troubled over his brother's death and haunted by memories of Eddie Cronin's inappropriately swollen crotch.</p><p></p><p>TDVDS's Season 5 also had a finality about it that, in retrospect, feels vaguely strained. But any B&W show which didn't make the switch to color in the fall of 1965 generally does. </p><p></p><p></p><p><em>Thoroughly mod Mary</em></p><p><img src="https://wwd.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Mary-Tyler-Moore-Style-PhotosSDMAMary-Tyler-Moore-Style-PhotosY_ECMary-Tyler-Moore-Style-Photos05.jpg?resize=100" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 446031, member: 57984"] They announced prior to Season 7 started that it would be the last year for MARY TYLER MOORE, so the audience knew it was coming to an end. Also, ALL IN THE FAMILY had been moved from its Saturday night perch preceding MTM, and MTM was now up against Season 2 of STARSKY & HUTCH (don't laugh -- it made a dent). So MTM's numbers were drooping -- and, after all, every show has its natural arc. I think seven seasons were right for MTM, and Moore has often asked "what were we thinking??" by shutting down her own show, but it ended at the right time and allowed Mary another break where she could try out a couple of variety show efforts which failed, and make a couple of TV movies before relocating to Chicago where she could play passive-aggressive mind games with her youngest son so troubled over his brother's death and haunted by memories of Eddie Cronin's inappropriately swollen crotch. TDVDS's Season 5 also had a finality about it that, in retrospect, feels vaguely strained. But any B&W show which didn't make the switch to color in the fall of 1965 generally does. [I]Thoroughly mod Mary[/I] [IMG]https://wwd.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Mary-Tyler-Moore-Style-PhotosSDMAMary-Tyler-Moore-Style-PhotosY_ECMary-Tyler-Moore-Style-Photos05.jpg?resize=100[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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