MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN {EPISODE 131} {MARY BEGINS LIFE IN A MENTAL INSTITUTION} (TV)
Summary
The first of two episodes on this tape. One in this satirical soap opera series about Mary Hartman, a housewife from Fernwood, Ohio. In this episode, Mary begins her stay in Fernwood Hospital's psychiatric ward, trying to be a plant; she finds that being a person is fraught with too many dangers and difficulties. She begins to feel better, however, when she realizes that she simply has been temporarily overwhelmed by personal problems, and she is proud to have given respectability to the cause of mental illness by becoming unglued on a popular television show. Charlie is also a patient in the hospital, suffering from an unfortunate and embarrassing accident caused when he tried to use his rifle to prevent Merle from harming Loretta. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: Syndicated
- DATE: November 30, 1999
- RUNNING TIME: 0:22:36
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:58582
- GENRE: Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy; Domestic relations - Drama
- SERIES RUN: Syndicated - TV series, 1976-1977
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Norman Lear … Executive Producer, Developed by
- Viva Knight … Producer
- John Maxwell Anderson … Associate Producer
- Nessa Hyams … Director
- Gail Parent … Created by
- Ann Marcus … Created by, Writer
- Jerry Adelman … Created by, Writer
- Tom Eyen … Writer
- Margaret Goldman … Writer
- Lynn Phillips … Writer
- Daniel Gregory Browne … Created by
- Earle Hagen … Music by
- Louise Lasser … Cast, Mary Hartman
- Greg Mullavey … Cast, Tom Hartman
- Mary Kay Place … Cast, Loretta Haggers
- Graham Jarvis … Cast, Charlie Haggers
- Howard Hesseman … Cast, Dr. Williams