Mary Tyler Moore: a Time Magazine Capsule

Oct. 28, 1974 issue coincided with Rhoda wedding episode.

MTM_Time_Oct281974Pictured at right is the cover of the Oct. 28, 1974 issue of Time magazine. The date coincided with a record-breaking special two-part episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show spinoff Rhoda.

The latter program had debuted that fall and by just the eighth episode, a major plot turn was being enacted. From the book Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted:

Rhoda and Joe (David Groh) walked down the aisle in a two-part special that brought Mary, Georgette, Phyllis, Murray and Lou to New York for the nuptials.

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