The BEST episodes directed by Jay Sandrich
#4 - The Snow Must Go On
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 1 - Episode 8
A snowstorm leaves Mary producing her first program, broadcasting the results of the local elections. The show has to remain on until a winner is declared and no word is received at the newsroom.
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#5 - And So We Commence (1)
The Cosby Show - Season 8 - Episode 24
Theo prepares to graduate from New York University.
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#6 - Ted Baxter Meets Walter Cronkite
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 4 - Episode 21
After a heavy self-promotion campaign, Ted wins his first Teddy Award. When Walter Cronkite comes to the newsroom, Ted assumes that he will be hired by the networks.
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#7 - Operation: Lou
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 3 - Episode 13
Lou goes to hospital to have a piece of World War II shrapnel removed and, surprisingly, he and Ted become best friends.
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#9 - Thoroughly Unmilitant Mary
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 2 - Episode 8
The writing and technical unions go on strike, leaving only Lou, Mary, and Ted in the newsroom. WJM-TV makes Lou be second cameraman on "The Chuckles the Clown Show". Because an upset Murray is on strike, Mary has to write the news stories. They are terrible, and when Lou criticizes them, she starts crying. Things take a turn for the worse: Ted's union strikes, and Lou has to fill in as anchorman! On his first brodcast, he has "clammy hands", and he bombs. At a local bar, Murray, Gordy, & Mary share a laugh over this. After drinking before his 2nd brodcast, he is "as cool as a cucumber"--that is, until he falls asleep at breaktime. Herb fills in for Lou for the rest of the brodcast. The next day, the unions come to an agreement, and everything goes back to normal. Rhoda Morgenstern & Phyllis Lindstrom do not appear in this episode.
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#10 - And So We Commence (2)
The Cosby Show - Season 8 - Episode 25
Theo graduates from NYU, Denise reveals that she is pregnant and Olivia leaves to join Denise and Martin in Singapore.
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#11 - My Brother's Keeper
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 3 - Episode 17
Phyllis wants to set up her visiting brother with Mary, but instead he hits it off with Rhoda and begins spending time with her to Phyllis's disapproval.
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#12 - Father's Day
The Cosby Show - Season 1 - Episode 13
Cliff complains about the poor quality of his annual Father's Day gifts. He challenges the children to find some better presents for a December Father's Day. They give him thoughtful-if not quite attractive-presents.
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#13 - Ted's Wedding
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 6 - Episode 9
Out of pity for Ted, Mary invites him & Georgette over for brunch. While he as an onion ring in his mouth, he proposes to Georgette...again. When, for the first time, Georgette says no, she & Ted have a talk and decide they want to get married now. They invite all their friends: Lou, Murray (with mud on his sweatshirt from his son's football game), and Sue Ann (who, in a spectacularily comedic enterance, brings a veil, flowers, and rice, among several other things). Ted's mom can't make it (she's washing her hair), but the incompetent minister comes straight from his tennis match. Best man Lou helps Ted calm his wedding day jitters. When the minister asks Ted if he takes Georgette to be his lawfully wedded wife, he pauses for a moment. Finally, with a smile on his face, he says, "I do." When they are pronounced husband & wife, Sue Ann sings the wedding march...very poorly, of course. Once the wedding ends and Lou, Murray, & Sue Ann leave, Ted asks, as if nothing had happened,
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#14 - You Try To Be a Nice Guy
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 5 - Episode 21
Mary agrees to help a troubled crime prone girl go straight and find a job.
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#15 - Enter Rhoda's Parents
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 3 - Episode 4
Ida Morgenstern, Rhoda's mother, mistakenly believes that her husband is seeing other women, so Rhoda and Mary try to clear things up between them.
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#17 - Cliff in Love
The Cosby Show - Season 2 - Episode 4
Sondra breaks up with her boyfriend Elvin and is depressed, taking it out on the family. Cliff and Clair aren't exactly unhappy; they find Elvin rather annoying. Later, he appears at the house with flowers and tries to apologize. While there, he offers some of his sexist rhetoric to Clair, who quickly becomes annoyed. First appearance of Geoffrey Owens as Elvin. Joseph C. Phillips appears as Daryl (Phillips joins the cast in Season 6 as Denise's new husband, Navy Lt. Martin Kendall)
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#18 - Put On a Happy Face
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 3 - Episode 23
Everything goes right for Rhoda and everything goes wrong for Mary on a disastrous day when she is due to go to the Teddies.
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#19 - Goodbye, Mr. Fish
The Cosby Show - Season 1 - Episode 2
When Rudy's pet fish, Lamont, dies, Cliff tries to bring the family together for a funeral in the bathroom. The festivities end when Rudy gets bored and leaves to watch TV.
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#20 - Pilot Presentation
The Cosby Show - Season 1 - Episode 1
Clair is furious when Theo brings home a report card with 4 D's. He tells Cliff that he has no intention of going to college, as he feels that he is destined to be a "regular person." Cliff uses Monopoly money to teach him about the economic realities that many blue-collar workers must face. He assures Theo that he only wants him to try his best. Cliff is alarmed to meet Denise's latest beau, a former merchant marine who once spent time in a Turkish prison.
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#21 - Lou and That Woman
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 5 - Episode 4
Lou begins seeing a cocktail lounge singer but becomes uncomfortable about her past.
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#22 - A Reliable Source
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 6 - Episode 22
Mary learns that an old friend seeking re-election to Congress had financial help from the mob. Lou threatens to use the story on the air.
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#23 - The Last Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 24
WJM-TV has some personnel changes in the executive department (again), and everyone except Ted Baxter is fired. The new station manager wants to see the WJM News the highest-ranked in Minneapolis, and for some reason feels that Ted can help him make it happen. (Seems a little odd, eh?) The gang says goodbye to each other in the form of a long, hard cry. Mary thanks them all for being her surrogate family, and Lou finally sentimentally says, "I cherish you people." They bravely march out the office doors singing, "It's a long, long way to Tipperary." At the last moment, Mary leans back through through the WJM-TV doors and turns out the light. So long, WJM-TV.
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#24 - Murray Can't Lose
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 10
Lou learns from a source on the Teddy Award's panel that Murray will finally win an award for his news writing.
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#25 - Party is Such Sweet Sorrow
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 1 - Episode 16
Mary gets a tempting offer from a rival television station, but becomes reluctant to leave when her WJM-TV colleagues throw a farewell party for her.
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#26 - Episode 1.18
Soap - Season 1 - Episode 18
Father Tim bids Corinne farewell. Burt tells Mary he can make himself invisible. Chester hires high-priced attorney E. Ronald Mallu to defend Jessica. Jessica decides to skip bail and head to Rio. Claire alerts the SEC to Chester's shady business dealings.
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#27 - The Locker Room
The Cosby Show - Season 4 - Episode 12
Theo and his classmates brag about their dates with girls in the locker room, but Theo's mood changes when one of the guys goes out with Vanessa and brags about it the next day. Troy Winbush as Denny. Adam Sandler as Smitty.
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#28 - Episode 1.15
Soap - Season 1 - Episode 15
Corrine goes to jail for killing Peter. Burt launches his own investigation. Danny decides to surprise the Godfather but must get past his daughter, Elaine, first. Ingrid Svenson arrives in Dunn's River, claiming to be Corrine's real mother.
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#29 - Room 223
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 2 - Episode 4
Mary and Rhoda enroll in a night school course in journalism and Mary begins dating the lecturer.
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#30 - Ted Baxter's Famous Broadcasters' School
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 5 - Episode 23
A con-man tricks Ted into setting up a broadcasters' academy. When he finds out he's been had, he asks Lou, Mary and Murray to be the faculty and give the semester's opening lectures.
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#31 - Love is All Around
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 1 - Episode 1
The classic series begins its classic 7-year run in Mary's apartment. Mary Richards, a 30-year-old single woman, has left her long-time boyfriend, Bill, to be with her old friend, Phyllis Lindstrom, in Minneapolis. (Mary originally lived in Roseburg, MN.) Why did Mary leave Bill? After promising to her that he would marry her right after his internship at the hospital, he said, "Why rush into things???" Meanwhile, she's already having troubles with her new apartment--a bitter upstairs neightbor, Rhoda Morgenstern, insists that she owns Mary's apartment! Later, Mary goes on a job interview at WJM-TV's The 6:00 News for a secreterial job. Lou Grant, the boss, tells her that the job has already been filled, but he does say that the job of Associate Producer is open. Sure, it offers $10 less per week than the secreterial job, but Mary is fine. "If you can get off with $15 less per week, I'll make you Producer," he says. She declines, then goes on to meeting Ted Baxter, the ridicul
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#33 - It's Whether You Win or Lose
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 3 - Episode 5
When Lou's trip to Las Vegas is cancelled, Mary organizes a poker game at the office where Murray loses a substantial amount to Ted.
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#34 - Mrs. Westlake
The Cosby Show - Season 2 - Episode 12
Theo's math teacher comes for dinner, to Theo's extreme consternation. He thinks she plans to tell his parents of a bad grade on a math test. To his surprise, Mrs. Westlake comes to dinner looking young, attractive, and even with a sense of humor; and she has a very good surprise! Mrs. Westlake also gives Theo his test-he actually gets an 89, and he proceeds to embrace her, much to his shock. Sonia Braga as Mrs. Westlake.
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#35 - Mary Moves Out
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 6 - Episode 2
Mary, wanting some change in her life, makes the decision to move to a new apartment.
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#36 - Denise Drives
The Cosby Show - Season 2 - Episode 8
Denise wants to buy a car. She plans to use her savings to do so, but Cliff and Clair quickly point out flaws in her plan. The answer to everyone's problems comes from friend Mr. Lucas, who has an old car he is willing to sell. Denise proves herself a good driver, and the car is hers. David Langston Smyrl as Mr. Lucas.
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#37 - Bonjour, Sondra
The Cosby Show - Season 1 - Episode 10
Sondra, the eldest Huxtable child makes her first appearance when she visits home for Thanksgiving. She plans on going to Paris for the summer, and hopes that her parents will support the decision.
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#39 - The Engagement
The Golden Girls - Season 1 - Episode 1
In the Pilot, Sophia arrives after her retirement home burns down and Blanche prepares to get married.
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#40 - Lou Dates Mary
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 23
Mary has another disastrous date and worries she'll never meet the right man, until Georgette points out that every quality she seeks can be found in Lou Grant.
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#41 - Will Mary Richards Go to Jail?
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 5 - Episode 1
Mary refuses to reveal a news source for a story she produced and has to spend a night in jail.
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#42 - Mary Midwife
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 1
Georgette gives birth at Mary's dinner party. With the hospital and doctor too far away, Lou and Mary help deliver the baby.
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#43 - Sue Ann's Sister
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 3
Sue Ann becomes deeply depressed when her sister arrives and gets an offer to do a competing homemaker show in Minneapolis.
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#44 - Episode 1.23
Soap - Season 1 - Episode 23
Walter dumps Eunice. Burt tells Mary he killed her first husband. Corinne walks out on Ingrid. Father Tim tells his mother he's leaving the priesthood. Jodie and Carol plan a weekend at the Cape. The prosecution drops a bombshell at Jessica's murder trial.
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#45 - The Dinner Party
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 4 - Episode 10
Mary invites Congresswoman Geddes to a fancy dinner at her home, trying hard to ensure that everything is perfect.
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#46 - Murray Ghosts for Ted
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 20
Ted offers Murray $200 to write an article on his behalf. The article becomes a success, but Ted refuses to share the credit with Murray.
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#47 - Mary and the Sexagenarian
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 19
Mary happily accepts a date from a charming older man without realizing that he's Murray's father, but everyone else has difficulty coming to terms with the difference in their ages.
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#49 - Slumber Party
The Cosby Show - Season 1 - Episode 22
Rudy invites all of her friends over for a slumber party. It's Cliff's job to watch over them, and he demonstrates some unique games to wrangle the youngsters. In the end, Russell drops by and demonstrates the perfect way to deal with kids-bribe them!
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#50 - I Love a Piano
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 5 - Episode 6
Murray meets an attractive woman at one of Mary's parties and considers having an affair. On the pretext of buying her old piano, he goes to see her.
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