Rhoda which began in the fall of 1974, began each episode (at least the 1st season) with Valerie Harper stating: "My name is Rhoda Morgenstern. I was born in the Bronx, New York in December, 1941. I've always felt responsible for World War II. The first thing I remember liking that liked me back was food. I had a bad puberty, it lasted 17 years. I'm a high school graduate, I went to art school. My entrance exam was on a book of matches. I decided to move out of the house when I was 24, my mother still refers to this as the time I ran away from home. Eventually I ran to Minneapolis where it's cold, and I figured I'd keep better. Now I'm back in Manhattan. New York, this is your last chance!" Rhoda is the successful spin-off to the classic The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Brenda decides to break out of her "nice, warm rut" by moving to San Francisco, a plan that isn't discouraged by Rhoda, but one that Joe thinks is rotten.
Rhoda and Brenda have to take their mother on her very first trip to the doctor, a visit that mama Ida faces with a combination of fear and embarrassment.
Mary Richards shows up unexpectedly and throws a monkey wrench into Rhoda's and Joe's plans for a long-awaited weekend alone at Cape Cod.
Bored with her life, Rhoda's mother Ida decides to become a "now" woman and surprises Rhoda and Brenda by announcing she's launched a whole new career.
At Ida's insistence, Rhoda talks Joe into asking her father for the money he needs to save his business, but then is surprised to learn things about her dad's financial state that are news to even her mother.
Complications arise when Rhoda and Joe's plans to have a small wedding is complicated by Ida, who invites all of her friends. Rhoda almost doesn't make it to her own wedding when, at the last minute, Phyllis forgets to pick her up. Note: Special one-hour episode featuring wedding guests Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore), Lou Grant (Edward Asner), Murray Slaughter (Gavin MacLeod), Georgette Franklin (Georgia Engel) and Phyllis Lindstrom (Cloris Leachman).
Joe pops the question, but it's not exactly the one Rhoda wants to hear. Instead of "Will you marry me?" it's "How about living together?"
Rhoda and Joe decide to set aside one day to tackle the generation gap, and schedule lunch with his parents and dinner with hers.
Despite Joe and Brenda's insistence that she butt out, Rhoda continues to plunge ahead to prove to her younger sister that her new boyfriend is really a married man.
Brenda enjoys the luxury of having two boyfriends, Gary and Benny, competing for her attention until they both show up for a date on the same night.
Rhoda arranges a weekend alone with Mike.
Brenda is in the final running for the First Security Bank Girl.
Rhoda has difficulty finding an apartment in New York City and finally moves into the one place she never even considered--her parents' apartment.
Distracted by visitors who keep interrupting her work at home, Rhoda opens an office and soon learns about the problems faced by a woman launching her own business.
That rotten job Brenda felt she held at the bank looks like a rose garden after she quits being a teller and is faced with the thorns of unemployment.
Gary Levy's parents give Rhoda Gerard the once-over as a prospective daughter-in-law, which she is pretending to be only as a favor for Gary.
Rhoda has one little problem with money; she doesn't have any, and it's forcing her window-dressing firm out of business.
Against his better judgment, Joe hires Nick, Brenda's obnoxious boyfriend, to become a wrecker at his demolition firm.
Rhoda's new, delightful, vivacious middle-aged neighbor becomes a threat to mother Ida.
Rhoda plans a wildly impulsive act to demonstrate to her estranged husband Joe that she's far from being a dull person.
With Ida hinting of a party, everyone leads her to believe there won't be one.
A string of bizarre mishaps plagues Rhoda.
Gary and Benny go into business together, something friends should think twice about.
With a party to stir up business underway, Rhoda and Jack get locked in a bathroom.
Rhoda's boss asks her to help him out when an old chum comes into the city and wants to get together.
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