Anyone recall the name of the "Asylum" episode?

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I grew up during the time when Mary Hartman Mary Hartman was originally on the air.
At that time it was a "unique" type of sitcom done without a laugh track and it was in the style of a soap opera only it was supposed to be funny. That is what I best recall.

I watched a few episodes but I did not particularly like the show.

I did think that one specific episode was funny. It was when Mary Hartman had to spend time in a mental institution . I don't recall why, but she had to be among other people who were hilariously insane or weird. I recall there was one old man addicted to watching TV and who strictly sat in front of the TV set with his mouth wide open.
What was the name of this episode?

[Svenfan1234]

MH, MH episodes didn't have names. You would have to research on IMDb would be my best advice

[1960'sTVfan]

Here's the answer, in the event anyone is interested:

It's the 1st episode of the 2nd season, or series episode #131 to be more precise. It continues from there for a series of episodes until Mary finally gets released from the loony bin. Not a very good stretch of episodes in my opinion, and not a good way to begin the 2nd season. Season 2 started off on the wrong foot and never really fully recovered. It has it's moments, but overall it's lackluster compared to the superb 1st season.

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Originally Posted by Svenfan1234

MH, MH episodes didn't have names. You would have to research on IMDb would be my best advice

Now that is very interesting that no MHMH episodes had names to identify them from each other.
I have thought about it before , that it seems all TV shows with episodes have had different names for each episode and I think it goes back to the beginning of TV shows. After all each episode or series of episodes are like a movie with a different plot that characters find themselves in.
Then MHMH was unique in more than one way unless there have been other TV shows without names for their episodes. Anyone know? don't recall any show that just identified an episode as "Episode 2" "Episode 10" or whatever in the beginning credits. It would be something like "Maude's Dilemma" or "The Pack Rat" or "Dirty Sally" etc. ,(those last two belonging to Gunsmoke). Of course too when I was a kid and watched TV it did not occur to me that when I'm much older , if I want to watch TV shows of my youth I'd have to know the episode name, and today I mainly can only ID episodes by recalling parts of the plot. So only TV shows that made a certain episode name particularly recall-able and prominent in letters on the TV screen, can I remember. A majority of shows seemed not to display plot names though they had them.

It is as if TV execs and directors and other people in charge of making TV shows have to always have known somehow that someday when their TV show is no longer on air
there has to be a way to identify it from other TV shows in the archives of film, or so it seems. When TV was something new in American culture there may not have been any or much past experience to have learned from and maybe the very first TV shows had no episodes with names, but Mary Hartman Mary Hartman was made in the 70s and TV shows have been around at least since the 40s.

Just some thoughts. Maybe this belongs in another post re TV history

[Svenfan1234]

^I was just stating that because Mary Hartman was a soap opera sitcom, it went by "Episode 1", "Episode 2", "Episode 3", etc. instead of having episode titles like say, every other sitcom. "Soap" didn't have episode names, either, come to think of it.