MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW [1970-77] TV photo archive

New York: CBS-TV, [1970-1977]. Set of 65 vintage original black-and-white photos: fifty-nine 7 x 9″ (18 x 23 cm), of which three are color photos, and three 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm). Old photo agency stickers on verso. Approximately fifty photos have affixed CBS promotional text. Overall near fine.

Classic television sitcom the Mary Tyler Moore Show, created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns and starring actress Mary Tyler Moore. The show originally aired on CBS from September 19, 1970, to March 19, 1977. Moore portrayed Mary Richards, an unmarried, independent woman focused on her career as associate producer of a news show at the fictional local station WJM in Minneapolis. Ed Asner co-starred as Mary’s boss Lou Grant, alongside Gavin MacLeod, Ted Knight, Georgia Engel, Betty White, Valerie Harper as friend and neighbor Rhoda Morgenstern, and Cloris Leachman as friend and landlady Phyllis Lindstrom.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show proved to be a groundbreaking series in the era of second-wave feminism; portraying a central female character who was neither married nor dependent on a man was a rarity on American television in the 1970s. The show has been celebrated for its complex, sympathetic characters and storylines. (Wikipedia)