The Last Show is the 168th and final episode of the television sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and was written by Allan Burns, James L. Brooks, Ed Weinberger, Stan Daniels, David Lloyd and Bob Ellison. It was first broadcast on CBS on March 19, 1977.
WJM-TV is sold to new owners who want WJM to become the Twin Cities' most-watched television station. As a result, the entire newsroom staff is fired. Everyone but Ted Baxter, ironically the cause...
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The Last Show is the 168th and final episode of the television sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and was written by Allan Burns, James L. Brooks, Ed Weinberger, Stan Daniels, David Lloyd and Bob Ellison. It was first broadcast on CBS on March 19, 1977.
WJM-TV is sold to new owners who want WJM to become the Twin Cities' most-watched television station. As a result, the entire newsroom staff is fired. Everyone but Ted Baxter, ironically the cause for WJM's low ratings, loses their job.
Mary takes the news particularly hard. To cheer her up, Lou arranges for old friends Rhoda and Phyllis to fly to Minneapolis for a visit.
After their final broadcast together, the WJM staff say goodbye to each other by huddling together and crying. Nobody wants to let go, so the gang, together, goes to Mary Richards' desk to get a box of tissues. Mary says goodbye to her fellow coworkers, after which Lou Grant (who will eventually find a job in Los Angeles as a newspaper editor in the spinoff series)...
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