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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI just discovered "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
I just watched this show for the first time. I was talking to my mother about television shows, and somehow it came up, so I found it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/friendswith82/videos
In one day, I'm through most of the 25 episodes that are available online or on DVD. But a total of more than 300 were produced - wish I could find them!
I know that superficially the plots are over-the-top, but there's a realness to the characters and incisiveness about the implicit social commentary. Seems like society is too hard-boiled and cynical for a show like this today. I can definitely tell that Norman Lear had his hand in this. Why is this not ever rerun on TV today?
What do people think about this show?
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)because it was so long ago, but I would watch it faithfully when it was on TV many years ago.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Also TV Gold!
David__77
(23,220 posts)I wish that show had lasted longer, thought the 4th season was on the weak side.
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)And it lasted slightly over a year, so there are not 300 episodes.
25 may be it, although it did morph into Forever Fernwood.
David__77
(23,220 posts)I was shocked. Apparently that's why the lead character quit - she was burned out.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19761028&id=xJpRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1hEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6829,5298969
IMDB is wrong. Youtube has some clips of the second season including the finale before it switched to Fernwood...
valerief
(53,235 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)Martin Mull and Fred Willard!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernwood_2_Night
olddots
(10,237 posts)I watch Fernwood Tonight on youtube way to much lately .
Mary Kay Place is a brilliant actress , I have never seen her bad in anything she has done.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)MuseRider
(34,060 posts)Follow that up with Fernwood Tonight
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)as I sat there in my David Bowie t-shirt watching "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", I said to myself, "Self, you are a product of your times"
MH,MH was one of the greatest shows ever.
David__77
(23,220 posts)The imagery almost makes me think of the movie Over the Edge (one of my favorites):
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)2 whole days of suspension!
God, I miss the 70s.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)rurallib
(62,346 posts)But the woman playing Mary Hartman - Louise Lasser was once married to Woody Allen - bet that was a laugh riot.
I still have fond memories of Mary Hartman and Fernwood 2nite.
DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts)My college friends and I used to watch it for shits and giggles.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)In 2012. It's so 80s. Or. Is it late 70s?
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Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)She used to laugh...I'll have to check it out
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Don't know what I would think today.