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The Mary Tyler Moore Show/The Last Show
| The Last Show | |
| Season 7, Episode 24 | |
| Airdate | March 19, 1977 |
| Production Number | 6027 |
| Written by | James L. Brooks, Allan Burns, Ed. Weinberger, Stan Daniels, David Lloyd and Bob Ellison |
| Directed by | Jay Sandrich |
| Produced by | Ed. Weinberger and Stan Daniels |
| ← 7x23 Lou Dates Mary |
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| The Mary Tyler Moore Show — Season Seven | |
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The Last Show is the twenty-fourth episode of the seventh season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and the one hundred sixty-eighth episode overall.
Starring: Mary Tyler Moore (Mary Richards)
Co-Starring: Edward Asner (Lou Grant) Gavin MacLeod (Murray Slaughter), Ted Knight (Ted Baxter)
with Georgia Engel (Georgette Baxter), Betty White (Sue Ann Nivens)
Guest Star: Vincent Gardenia (Frank Coleman)
Guest Star: Robbie Rist (David Baxter)
Special Guest Stars (in Alphabetical Order): Valerie Harper (Rhoda Morgenstern Gerard), Cloris Leachman (Phyllis Lindstrom)
Contents |
Plot Overview
Everything changes after WJM-TV is sold. The station's new owner fires everyone in the newsroom except, bizarrely, for Ted - the very reason WJM's newscast ratings have been the lowest in the Twin Cities the entire time he has been in front of the camera. To cheer a despondent Mary up, Lou has Rhoda and Phyllis flown in to Minneapolis for a reunion with their friend. Following the final newscast for the recently-fired WJM news crew (except for Ted, who will be staying on under new newsroom staff), Mary and the rest of the staff have an emotional farewell before they pack up and leave on their roads ahead.
Notes
Arc Advancement
Happenings
Characters
Referbacks
Trivia
The Show
- Following the series finale, Edward Asner took his Lou Grant character with him to star in the spinoff Lou Grant (the show's third spinoff, following Rhoda and Phyllis, as well as its first dramatic spinoff), where Lou moves to Los Angeles to become city editor for the Los Angeles Tribune newspaper
- Although this episode first aired in the United States on CBS on March 19, 1977, it had its world premiere one day earlier when it aired in Canada on CBC Television, which carried Mary Tyler Moore, on March 18
