The BEST episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show season 6
Every episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show season 6!
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 - Chuckles Bites the Dust
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1975
Chuckles the Clown is crushed to death by a rogue elephant in a parade, which leaves all the newsroom staff in hysterics except Mary.
#2 - Once I Had a Secret Love
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/17/1976
Lou has spent the night with Sue Ann, and confides in Mary. Their friendship is almost ruined when Mary is unable to keep the secret.
#3 - Ted's Wedding
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1975
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,
#4 - What Do You Want to Do When You Produce?
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/20/1975
Initially delighted at the chance of producing the Happy Homemaker show, Murray quickly becomes miserable when he realizes the menial tasks he has to do for Sue Ann.
#5 - A Reliable Source
Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/21/1976
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.
#6 - Mary Moves Out
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1975
Mary, wanting some change in her life, makes the decision to move to a new apartment.
#7 - The Seminar
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/10/1976
Lou and Mary go on a press junket to Washington, DC. Lou was once a correspondent there, but Mary has difficulty believing him about his contacts.
#8 - Not With My Wife, I Don't
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/3/1976
Ted and Georgette face marital problems, but Ted refuses to see a counselor unless Lou goes with him.
#9 - Ted and the Kid
Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/6/1976
Ted and Georgette decide to adopt a son after Ted is informed he cannot have children.
#10 - Edie Gets Married
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1975
Lou puts on a brave face when he learns that his ex-wife Edie is remarrying.
#11 - Ted's Moment of Glory
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1975
Ted's jocular nature is ideal for hosting a game show in New York, and he successfully auditions for the job. But Mary and Lou wonder if they really want to see him go.
#12 - Mary Richards Falls in Love
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/22/1975
Mary is convinced she has really fallen in love, but her boyfriend seems reluctant in saying those three magic words, 'I love you'.
#13 - Menage-a-Lou
Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/24/1976
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.
#14 - Mary's Father
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1975
Mary researches a documentary with the help of a priest. He eventually decides to leave the Church, and Mary thinks that he has fallen in love with her.
#15 - Mary's Delinquent
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1975
Mary joins a Big Sisters scheme and tries to bring a teenage shoplifter to the side of good. Sue Ann, pursuing an award, decides to "adopt" a little sister as well but finds herself getting influenced.
#16 - Murray Takes a Stand
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/31/1976
Murray is unhappy with the new station owner's policies and tells him off over the phone one evening. However, the station owner fires him the following day.
#17 - Ted's Tax Refund
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/29/1975
Ted is overjoyed when he gets a tax refund and splurges out on everyone at the newsroom, but is later shocked when the IRS informs him that he will be audited.
#18 - Murray In Love
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1975
Murray realizes that he's always been in love with Mary and wants desperately to tell her.
#19 - Lou Douses an Old Flame
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1975
Lou meets up with a woman who had sent him a 'Dear John' letter during World War II but is disappointed to learn her motives for doing so.
#20 - Mary's Aunt
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1975
Mary's high-flying journalist aunt comes for a visit, and Lou finds that he has a rival in her.
#21 - Mary's Aunt Returns
Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/7/1976
Mary's Aunt Flo and Lou both prepare competing ideas for a TV documentary.
#22 - The Happy Homemaker Takes Lou Home
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/6/1975
Sue Ann gets Mary to ask Lou out on a date on her behalf. Lou accepts, not realizing who Mary's 'friend' is.
#23 - Sue Ann Falls in Love
Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/28/1976
Sue Ann has fallen in love, but her new boyfriend is less scrupulous than he first seems.
#24 - One Boyfriend Too Many
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/13/1975
Mary's old flame Dan Whitfield, who once proposed to her, returns to Minneapolis and she's forced to choose between him and her current boyfriend.