30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with Phyllis who rents her a room, and meets her upstairs neighbor and new best friend Rhoda. Mary unexpectedly lands a job as associate producer at the TV station WJM, where she works alongside her bristly boss, Lou; the comical newswriter, Murray; and the newscast's often-incompetent anchor, Ted.
Air date: 1974-09-14
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Mary refuses to reveal a news source for a story she produced and has to spend a night in jail.
Air date: 1974-09-21
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Mary dates a man with whom she has nothing in common and becomes concerned that their relationship is superficial.
Air date: 1974-09-28
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lou finally loses his temper with Ted when he endorses a political candidate on The Six O'clock News and throws him through the office doors. Lou feels guilty, and Ted takes advantage of him.
Air date: 1974-10-05
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lou begins seeing a cocktail lounge singer but becomes uncomfortable about her past.
Air date: 1974-10-12
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: WJM-TV hires a young business consultant, who demands certain changes for The Six O'clock News, offending every member of the news team.
Air date: 1974-10-19
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Murray meets an attractive woman at one of Mary's parties and considers having an affair. On the pretext of buying her old piano, he goes to see her.
Air date: 1974-10-26
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A young fan, Gloria, persuades Sue Ann to hire her for The Happy Homemaker. Sue Ann is less than pleased when Gloria plays up to the station manager and gets a larger role on the show at the expense of her own.
Air date: 1974-11-02
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Phyllis dates a man on a platonic basis, but he is attracted more to Mary and begins seeing her.
Air date: 1974-11-09
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: The entire newsroom staff is arguing with each other, and when they are trapped at the office due to bad weather, Sue Ann decides to serve her Christmas dinner early.
Air date: 1974-11-16
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Mary and Sue Ann go to a convention in Chicago and Mary finds out that Sue Ann leads a lonely life.
Air date: 1974-11-23
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ted is shocked when he finds out his mother does not intend to marry her boyfriend, but will live with him.
Air date: 1974-11-30
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Murray, who has three daughters, wants a son, but his wife Marie doesn't want to have another child. The couple decide to adopt instead.
Air date: 1974-12-07
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lou wants a smaller place and moves in to Rhoda's old apartment but can't help interfering in Mary's private life.
Air date: 1974-12-14
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lou wants to hire a female newscaster 'like Mary', so Mary decides to audition for the job herself.
Air date: 1974-12-21
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Now that Mary is producer, Ted thinks that he can make his move on her. He convinces the rest of the newsroom that they are having an affair.
Air date: 1975-01-04
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Mary doesn't feel she deserves the title of producer and asks Lou that she be given the chance to produce The Six O'clock News alone.
Air date: 1975-01-11
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: When Ted's formula for betting on football games works, Lou goes into partnership with him. He winds up betting all of the season's winnings on the Super Bowl without telling Ted.
Air date: 1975-01-18
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Phyllis and Lars have a dispute and she finds her credit cards cut off. She looks for a job but finds that she has no relevant skills.
Air date: 1975-01-25
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Lou wants to research his own news story now that Mary's producer and decides to launch a major investigation on a city councilor only to discover that he is completely honest.
Air date: 1975-02-01
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Ted pops the question to Georgette at Murray's 20th wedding anniversary party and then gets cold feet.
Air date: 1975-02-08
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Mary agrees to help a troubled crime prone girl go straight and find a job.
Air date: 1975-02-15
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Lou wins the Albert Mason Award, which he had once said was for broadcasting veterans who couldn't chew their own food.
Air date: 1975-02-22
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A con-man tricks Ted into setting up a broadcasters' academy. When he finds out he's been had, he asks Lou, Mary and Murray to be the faculty and give the semester's opening lectures.
Air date: 1975-03-08
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Mary likes her new boyfriend but finds his son absolutely intolerable.
