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    Comedy TV Shows - 1980s 2 Mins Read

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    1 9 8 5 – 1 9 8 6 (USA)
    13 x 30 minute episodes

    This CBS comedy presented Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Brenner, a divorced fashion writer who loses her job with quality high-fashion magazine Women’s Digest and is forced to take a job writing a consumer advice column for a third-rate Chicago newspaper.

    Outspoken and temperamental Mary was immediately at odds with her handsome managing editor, Frank DeMarco (James Farentino), and had to contend with a near-sighted copy editor (David Byrd) and fight off the advances of eccentric theatre critic “LaSalle . . . Ed LaSalle” (John Astin), who wrote the column “Stepping Out with Ed LaSalle”.

    Katey Sagal (the future Peg Bundy) appeared as Mary’s chain-smoking co-worker, Jo Tucker, who penned the column “The Mainline Reporter”.

    The (fictitious) newspaper was originally called the Chicago Post but NBC and production company MTM received a “cease and desist” order from the real Vice Mayor of Chicago, Richard Mell – it seems he published a small free community newspaper under that name in partnership with Chicago entrepreneur James Boratyn. The name was changed in the series to the Chicago Eagle.

    Mary Brenner
    Mary Tyler Moore
    Frank DeMarco
    James Farentino
    Ed LaSalle
    John Astin
    Vincent Tully
    David Byrd
    Jo Tucker
    Katey Sagal
    Lester Mintz
    James Tolkan
    Susan Wilcox
    Carlene Watkins

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