When It Came To Must See TV, NOBODY Did It Better Than Mary Tyler Moore! Agree? - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 04-01-2011, 10:47 PM

Who made tv watching more of an event than Mary? So many classic episodes, not only on her show TMTMS, but on her spinoffs and other MTM enterprise shows she produced. So I ask again, who was better? Lucille Ball perhaps? Norman Lear? Talk to me! lol

Retro4Life · 04-01-2011, 11:20 PM

It's hard to say who's "better" among that group. Everyone had their own styles. I was never a huge "Lucy" fan but that's just not my brand of comedy as much as MTM or Lear's was.

I will say that MTM and AITF were two shows I never missed as a kid. My dad and mom both watched AITF and I think only Mom watched MTM, but I was glued to both. Always great writing and acting and always some laughs.

catlover79 · 04-01-2011, 11:51 PM

TMTMS was definitely must-see TV!! Many of the MTM shows were, like Bob Newhart's two classic sitcoms, and WKRP, etc.

Mr. Television · 04-02-2011, 12:00 AM

All of the above. I loved them all. lol I can't say that about today's tv shows.

OH Nuts! · 04-02-2011, 04:23 PM

If I had to pick the greatest TV star ever it would have to be Lucille Ball. But our beloved Mary is surely up there in the top four or five someplace. And of course that other great, Betty White. God Bless Betty - almost 90 & as big a star as ever. Hope she does SNL another time.

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Retro4Life Accept No Substitutes Forum Veteran Join Date: Feb 04, 2009 Location: IL Posts: 6,708	It's hard to say who's "better" among that group. Everyone had their own styles. I was never a huge "Lucy" fan but that's just not my brand of comedy as much as MTM or Lear's was. I will say that MTM and AITF were two shows I never missed as a kid. My dad and mom both watched AITF and I think only Mom watched MTM, but I was glued to both. Always great writing and acting and always some laughs.
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catlover79 God Bless Val Forum Addict Join Date: May 29, 2006 Location: Bewitched in Ohio Posts: 70,376	TMTMS was definitely must-see TV!! Many of the MTM shows were, like Bob Newhart's two classic sitcoms, and WKRP, etc.
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Mr. Television 23 Years at Sitcoms Online Forum Icon Join Date: Jun 06, 2003 Location: Somewhere you're Not Posts: 62,133	All of the above. I loved them all. lol I can't say that about today's tv shows.
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OH Nuts! Member Forum King Join Date: Feb 15, 2005 Posts: 133,383	If I had to pick the greatest TV star ever it would have to be Lucille Ball. But our beloved Mary is surely up there in the top four or five someplace. And of course that other great, Betty White. God Bless Betty - almost 90 & as big a star as ever. Hope she does SNL another time.