The BEST episodes of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Every episode of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman!
Louise Lasser delivers a masterful performance in the title role of Norman Lear's sublimely twisted soap opera, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman -- at once a parody of the format and a twisted satire of American media/consumer culture. In the fictional town of Fernwood, Ohio, suburban housewife Mary Hartman seeks the kind of domestic perfection promised by Reader's Digest and TV commercials. Instead she finds herself suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune -- mass murders, low-flying airplanes, and waxy yellow buildup on her kitchen floor.
#13 - Episode 049
Season 1 - Episode 49 - Aired 3/11/1976
Mary tells Tom that it'll be 23 years before their sexual desires are synchronized again. Tom is angered by Mary's need for "something else" that she can't explain. Mary seeks answers to happiness from Grandpa Larkin who surmises she doesn't quite fit in anywhere. Mary hides under the kitchen sink. Cathy worries that she's losing Steve. Loretta has inspiration for a new song, Ballad of a Legless Woman. Mary cries and shares a lunch meat sandwich with Grandpa.
#20 - Episode 003
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/7/1976
Mary is interviewed by a reporter; Young Heather Hartman displays suspicious behavior when asked about the recent murders; Grampa Larkin is arrested again.
#21 - Episode 013
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/21/1976
Cathy brings Steve over to meet her parents. Fanny is too much for Raymond. The mass murderer is revealed and Heather, Trudy, and Mary's lives are in danger.
#22 - Episode 004
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/8/1976
Grampa Larkin appears in court; Tom and Mary's drought in the bedroom continues.
#23 - Episode 006
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/12/1976
Grampa Larkin visits a psychiatric social worker; Mary gets some sex books; a strange man follows Heather home from school.
