The Mary Tyler Moore Show/Trivia


 * Hey It's That Guy: Many examples, such as...
 * The Fonz is Rhoda's dinner date
 * The Price Is Right Barker's Beauty Dian Parkinson appears as the Lovely Assistant for the Game Show pilot Ted hosts.
 * Dimwitted Navigator Howard Borden is a Dimwitted Local Politician in a Poorly-Disguised Pilot also featuring Louise "Weezy" Jefferson.
 * Joanna Louden as a bigot who almost comes between Mary and Rhoda.
 * Laverne DeFasio lives in Mary's new apartment building.
 * Charles Emerson Winchester III owns WJM for a while.
 * Ironically, one of the producers of M*A*S*H, Gene Reynolds, would later serve as co-creator and executive producer of the program's After Show, Lou Grant.
 * Bobby Wheeler's dating Lou's ex-girlfriend.
 * Coach Hayden Fox is Mary's mechanic.
 * James Evans is Gordy the weatherman.
 * Elliot Carlin wants to rent Rhoda's apartment.
 * Dr Melnix is Mary's Father.
 * Angel Martin is in love with Mary.
 * Stacy Petrie is head writer for Chuckles the Clown.
 * Jamie Buchman is Murray's daughter.
 * Moe Greene is Lou's Army Buddy.
 * Parker Tillman is the entire student body of Ted Baxter's Famous Broadcasters School.
 * Doctor Adam Bricker was set up on a date with Mary by Ida Morganstern.
 * Ted set Tron up with Murray's daughter Bonnie.
 * And, of course, Uncle Walter.
 * Hey It's That Voice: Meanwhile...in the halls of WJM, a problem was brewing...
 * I Am Not Spock: Ted Knight hated the problems people had seperating him from Ted Baxter. He had a hard time after the series as well.
 * What Could Have Been: Mary was originally going to be divorced, but the writers feared people would think she'd divorced Rob Crosses with a bit of I Am Not Spock.