"I was the guy who came in later, you know what I mean? The husband was gone, right? And the show was different," Hirsch says of his part in "The Mary Tyler Moore" spinoff, in which he played Mike Andretti, Rhoda's first date after her divorce.

"I loved the opportunity of all of a sudden playing a guy who loves somebody." Alas, Rhoda and Mike's courtship wasn't meant to last; Hirsch only appeared on two episodes of the CBS sitcom.

http://tvline.com/gallery/judd-hirsch-photos-taxi-numbers/#!3/memset_hirsch_rhoda/

They were kind of my least favorite episodes of Season 4, but they weren't horrible episodes by any means. The other episodes in Season 4 set the bar very high.