The BEST episodes directed by Jay Sandrich
#1 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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
#4 - 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.
#5 - And Now, Sitting in for Ted Baxter
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 2 - Episode 9
Ted is forced to take a vacation and the anchorman hired to sit in for him becomes a huge success.
#6 - Look at Us, We're Walking
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 13
Mary and Lou threaten to quit after the new station manager refuses to give them a raise.
#7 - The Shame of the Cities
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 5 - Episode 19
Lou wants to research his own news story now that Mary's producer and decides to launch a major investigation on a city councilor only to discover that he is completely honest.
#8 - More Than Neighbors
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 2 - Episode 19
After being persuaded by Phyllis, Ted moves into a vacant apartment below Mary's but Mary and Rhoda are not thrilled by the prospect.
#9 - Second Story Story
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 1 - Episode 18
Mary's apartment is burgled, with only her clothes, stereo and television taken but then next night the whole apartment is cleaned out.
#10 - 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,
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 1040 or Fight
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 1 - Episode 11
Mary is audited by the IRS, and the shy auditor takes an interest in her. Unfortunately, he has great difficulty telling her how he feels.
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#14 - One Producer Too Many
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 6
Lou promotes Murray to co-producer against Mary's wishes to prevent him from accepting a producer's job at a rival television station.
#15 - Mary's Big Party
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 22
Mary has planned a fancy party at her apartment, with a mystery guest of honor, but the power in the building goes before he arrives.
#16 - 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.
#17 - Mary's Three Husbands
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 21
Murray, Ted and Lou fantasize about being married to Mary.
#18 - Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid II
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 1 - Episode 14
Feeling sympathetic for a co-worker who hasn't spent Christmas with his family for years, Mary is forced to stay alone at WJM-TV on Christmas Eve.
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#19 - Ted's Change of Heart
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 7 - Episode 5
Ted suffers a heart attack on the air and for the next few days becomes conscious of how precious life is.
#20 - Episode 1.22
Soap - Season 1 - Episode 22
Jodie and Carol plan a weekend away as "just friends." Mary commits Burt to the mental hospital. Danny tells Mary he must marry Elaine. Billy runs away from home. Benson, Chester, and Jessica take the stand in Jessica's trial.
#21 - 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.
#22 - Lou's Place
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 3 - Episode 16
Lou spots an opportunity to buy a bar after realizing a lifelong dream. However, he is short of several thousand dollars and Ted is the only one who can come to his aid.
#23 - 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.
#24 - Episode 1.20
Soap - Season 1 - Episode 20
Danny learns he must marry Elaine. Mary tells Burt of her plans to commit him. Jessica's case looks even more hopeless after she meets the prosecutor and judge.
#26 - We Closed in Minneapolis
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 1 - Episode 19
Murray's play, All Work and No Play, is finally produced but his happiness is short-lived when he discovers that the leading role will be played by Ted.
#27 - Episode 1.14
Soap - Season 1 - Episode 14
Chester and Jessica discuss her affair with Peter. The Tates and Campbells wonder who among them is a murderer. Eunice and Congressman McCallum meet up in an airplane lavatory. Chief Tinkler arrests Corrine.
#28 - A Girl's Best Mother Is Not Her Friend
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 2 - Episode 5
When Ida, Rhoda's mother, visits, she sees how well Phyllis and Bess get on, and how closely Mary appears to her mother when they chat on the telephone, that she tries to be Rhoda's "friend".
#29 - Episode 1.21
Soap - Season 1 - Episode 21
Elaine meets the kooky Campbells. Corinne tracks down Tim at his mountain retreat. Mallu's assistant, Carol, invites Jodie to lunch. Jessica's murder trial begins.
#30 - Hi There, Sports Fans
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 4 - Episode 5
When Mary asks Lou for more responsibility in the newsroom, he assigns her the task of hiring a new sportscaster, but first she must fire the old one.
#31 - Menage-a-Lou
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 6 - Episode 19
Lou almost ruins one of Mary's parties when his old girlfriend, Charlene Maguire, arrives with a date. He tries to make her jealous by taking out one of Mary's neighbors.
#32 - 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.
#35 - 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.
#36 - And So We Commence (1)
The Cosby Show - Season 8 - Episode 24
Theo prepares to graduate from New York University.
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#37 - 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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#38 - 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.
#39 - 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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#40 - 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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#41 - 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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#42 - 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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#43 - 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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#44 - 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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#45 - 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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#46 - 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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#47 - 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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#48 - The System
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 5 - Episode 17
When Ted's formula for betting on football games works, Lou goes into partnership with him. He winds up betting all of the season's winnings on the Super Bowl without telling Ted.
#49 - 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.
#50 - Marriage Minneapolis Style
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 5 - Episode 20
Ted pops the question to Georgette at Murray's 20th wedding anniversary party and then gets cold feet.