'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' to Be Featured As A Part Of A Four Part PBS Documentary

[Brian Damage]

PBS will debut a four-part documentary series in October looking at TV hits and the people who made them.

America in Primetime will air Sundays at 8-9 p.m. from Oct. 30 through Nov. 20. and look at shows it says are part of an "this iconic American art form, which has both reflected and shaped our national character." The series is produced by WETA TV Washington, one of PBS's chief programming partners, in association with the Documentary Group and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

The series will look at the shows broken out by genre--the man of the house (from The Cosby Show and Andy Griffith to The Sopranos), the independent woman (Murphy Brown, Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Good Wife, Grey's Anatomy), the misfit (The Office, Beavis & Butthead, Larry Sanders) and the crusader (M*A*S*H, Dexter, House, The Shield).

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