📺DEBUT: 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' premiered 53 years ago, September 19, 1970

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Wow, I was 17 when MTM was a thing.....

that was a pretty awesome opening. Like a trip to the past.

The rest, ehhh....didn't watch.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Four members of the cast died the same year...2021

Ed Asner, Cloris Leachman, Betty White and Gavin MacLeod. All were in their 90s. Leachman died from Covid.

[Phoenix61]

3. Mary Tyler Moore was single due to a broken engagement.

They were worried people would think she divorced Rob Petri if she was single due to divorce. It was the first show with an independent, single, female lead.

[wolfie001]

4. "Oh Rob!!!"

First thought that goes through my addled brain whenever I hear the name Mary Tyler Moore!!! She was so talented and lovely. Amazing TeeVee!

[tanyev]

5. *sigh* Still love the MTM opening credits.

The song, the look, everything. Takes me back.

[Xavier Breath]

6. And of course the iconic closing logo.

I remember the epic version they used on the final episode of St. Elsewhere. It was both brutal and genius.

[tanyev]

7. Yep, I always watched to the very end to see the kitten.