Episode
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: What Are Friends For?
Overview
Mary and Sue Ann go to a convention in Chicago and Mary finds out that Sue Ann leads a lonely life.
Details
- Series
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 1974-11-16
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
What Are Friends For? is Episode 10 in Season 5 of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. It aired on 1974-11-16. The runtime is 26 min.
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Episode 9: Not a Christmas Story
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.
Episode 11: A Boy's Best Friend
Ted is shocked when he finds out his mother does not intend to marry her boyfriend, but will live with him.
More episodes from this season
Episode 8: Menage-a-Phyllis
Phyllis dates a man on a platonic basis, but he is attracted more to Mary and begins seeing her.
Episode 12: A Son for Murray
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.
Episode 7: A New Sue Ann
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.
Episode 13: Neighbors
Lou wants a smaller place and moves in to Rhoda's old apartment but can't help interfering in Mary's private life.
Episode 6: I Love a Piano
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.
Episode 14: A Girl Like Mary
Lou wants to hire a female newscaster 'like Mary', so Mary decides to audition for the job herself.
Episode 5: The Outsider
WJM-TV hires a young business consultant, who demands certain changes for The Six O'clock News, offending every member of the news team.
Episode 15: An Affair to Forget
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.
Episode 4: Lou and That Woman
Lou begins seeing a cocktail lounge singer but becomes uncomfortable about her past.
Episode 16: Mary Richards: Producer
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.