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MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN {EPISODE 148} {GORE VIDAL INTERVIEWS MARY} (TV)
Summary
The second of two episodes on this tape. One in this satirical soap opera series about Mary Hartman, a housewife from Fernwood, Ohio. In this episode, Annie announces that she has decided to stay in Fernwood for a while. This news worries Loretta, who has taken note of Tom's attraction to the widow. Literary figure Gore Vidal comes to the hospital to interview Mary for a book about her life, which he predicts will symbolize the emptiness and broken promises, as well as the hope and survival, of America. Charlie admits to Loretta that he feels that her new song is a public insult to his manhood, and she suggests that he try hypnosis to come to grips with his sexual dysfunction. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: Syndicated
- DATE: November 30, 1999
- RUNNING TIME: 0:22:40
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:58599
- 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
- Jerry Adelman … Created by, Writer
- Tom Eyen … Writer
- Margaret Goldman … Writer
- Lynn Phillips … Writer
- Daniel Gregory Browne … Created by
- Earle Hagen … Music by
- Bobby Knight … Music (Misc. Credits), Music Supervisor
- Louise Lasser … Cast, Mary Hartman
- Greg Mullavey … Cast, Tom Hartman
- Mary Kay Place … Cast, Loretta Haggers
- Graham Jarvis … Cast, Charlie Haggers
- De Haven, Gloria … Cast, Annie Wylie
- Howard Morton … Cast, Mr. Ackerman
- Gore Vidal … Cast, himself