MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN {EPISODE 1} {SERIES PREMIERE} (TV)

Summary

The premiere of this satirical soap opera series about Mary Hartman, a housewife from Fernwood, Ohio. In the premiere, a mass murder is committed in Mary's neighborhood, and the killer is on the loose; Mary worries about the "waxy yellow build-up" on her kitchen floor; Mary becomes concerned about the waning sexual interest of her husband, Tom; and Mary is visited by her best friend, Loretta Haggers, an aspiring country music singer. As this episode concludes, Mary receives a call from the police about her grandfather, "the Fernwood Flasher," who has been arrested for exposing himself. Commercials deleted.

(New York premiere on Tuesday, January 6, 1976, on WNEW-TV. WNEW chose to air the first and second episodes together as a one-hour premiere on Tues. Jan 6th. According to "Syndicated TV The First Forty Years," by Hal Erickson, over 100 markets aired a half-hour premiere on Monday, Jan 5th. The Museum's copy is not the WNEW version.

Details

• NETWORK: Syndicated
• DATE: January 5, 1976
• RUNNING TIME: 0:22:35
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: T:19446
• GENRE: Comedy
• SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy; Domestic relations - Drama; She Made It Collection (Joan Darling); She Made It Collection (Ann Marcus); She Made It Collection (Gail Parent)
• SERIES RUN: Syndicated - TV series, 1976-1977
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Norman Lear … Executive Producer, Developed by
• Jerry Adler … Producer
• Viva Knight … Associate Producer
• Joan Darling … Director
• Jim Drake … Director
• Gail Parent … Created by
• Ann Marcus … Created by, Writer, Head Writer
• Jerry Adelman … Created by, Writer
• Daniel Gregory Brown … Created by, Writer
• Louise Lasser … Cast, Mary Hartman
• Greg Mullavey … Cast, Tom Hartman
• Mary Kay Place … Cast, Loretta Haggers
• Graham Jarvis … Cast, Charlie Haggers
• Dody Goodman … Cast, Martha Shumway
• Debralee Scott … Cast, Cathy Shumway
• Victor Kilian … Cast, Grandpa Raymond Larkin
• Philip Bruns … Cast, George Shumway