The BEST episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show season 5
Every episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show season 5!
The Mary Tyler Moore Show was one of the most literate, realistic, and enduring situation comedies of the 1970s. Mary Richards was the idealized single career woman. She had come to Minneapolis after breaking up with a man she had been dating for four years. Ambitious, and looking for new friends, she moved into an older apartment building and went to work as an assistant producer of the local news show on television station WJM-TV. In her early 30s, Mary symbolized the independent woman of the 1970s.
#1 - You Try To Be a Nice Guy
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/8/1975
Mary agrees to help a troubled crime prone girl go straight and find a job.
#2 - Mary Richards: Producer
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/4/1975
Mary doesn't feel she deserves the title of producer and asks Lou that she be given the chance to produce The Six O'clock News alone.
#3 - Lou and That Woman
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1974
Lou begins seeing a cocktail lounge singer but becomes uncomfortable about her past.
#4 - Ted Baxter's Famous Broadcasters' School
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/22/1975
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.
#5 - Not a Christmas Story
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1974
The entire newsroom staff is arguing with each other, and when they are trapped at the office due to bad weather, Sue Ann decides to serve her Christmas dinner early.
#6 - Neighbors
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1974
Lou wants a smaller place and moves in to Rhoda's old apartment but can't help interfering in Mary's private life.
#7 - You Sometimes Hurt the One You Hate
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1974
Lou finally loses his temper with Ted when he endorses a political candidate on The Six O'clock News and throws him through the office doors. Lou feels guilty, and Ted takes advantage of him.
#8 - Will Mary Richards Go to Jail?
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1974
Mary refuses to reveal a news source for a story she produced and has to spend a night in jail.
#9 - I Love a Piano
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1974
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.
#10 - An Affair to Forget
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/21/1974
Now that Mary is producer, Ted thinks that he can make his move on her. He convinces the rest of the newsroom that they are having an affair.
#11 - A Son for Murray
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1974
Murray, who has three daughters, wants a son, but his wife Marie doesn't want to have another child. The couple decide to adopt instead.
#12 - Menage-a-Phyllis
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1974
Phyllis dates a man on a platonic basis, but he is attracted more to Mary and begins seeing her.
#13 - Not Just Another Pretty Face
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1974
Mary dates a man with whom she has nothing in common and becomes concerned that their relationship is superficial.
#14 - A New Sue Ann
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1974
A young fan, Gloria, persuades Sue Ann to hire her for The Happy Homemaker. Sue Ann is less than pleased when Gloria plays up to the station manager and gets a larger role on the show at the expense of her own.
#15 - The Outsider
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1974
WJM-TV hires a young business consultant, who demands certain changes for The Six O'clock News, offending every member of the news team.
#16 - A Girl Like Mary
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1974
Lou wants to hire a female newscaster 'like Mary', so Mary decides to audition for the job herself.
#17 - Phyllis Whips Inflation
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/18/1975
Phyllis and Lars have a dispute and she finds her credit cards cut off. She looks for a job but finds that she has no relevant skills.
#18 - You Can't Lose 'em All
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/15/1975
Lou wins the Albert Mason Award, which he had once said was for broadcasting veterans who couldn't chew their own food.
#19 - What Are Friends For?
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1974
Mary and Sue Ann go to a convention in Chicago and Mary finds out that Sue Ann leads a lonely life.
#20 - A Boy's Best Friend
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1974
Ted is shocked when he finds out his mother does not intend to marry her boyfriend, but will live with him.
#21 - The System
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/11/1975
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.
#22 - Anyone Who Hates Kids and Dogs
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/8/1975
Mary likes her new boyfriend but finds his son absolutely intolerable.
#23 - Marriage Minneapolis Style
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/1/1975
Ted pops the question to Georgette at Murray's 20th wedding anniversary party and then gets cold feet.
#24 - The Shame of the Cities
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/25/1975
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.