MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN {EPISODE 130} {MARY HAS A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN ON NATIONAL TELEVISION} (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, Mary is questioned on "The David Susskind Show" by a panel of experts in the fields of media and human relations, and she gets frustrated over their barrage of questions about her personal life. After lashing out at the panel, she recites the many horrors she has been through. She soon begins rambling and has a nervous breakdown on the air, which lands her in a hospital's psychiatric ward. Meanwhile, Jimmy Joe tells Charlie that he fears for Loretta's safety, and Charlie breaks into the Jeeters' motel room and fires his rifle just as Merle is trying to seduce Loretta. Clete Mizenheimer closes the show by interviewing Norman Lear about the upcoming season for the series. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: Syndicated
- DATE: November 30, 1999
- RUNNING TIME: 0:23:07
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:59828
- 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
- Perry Krauss … Associate Producer
- Nessa Hyams … Director
- Daniel Gregory Browne … Created by
- Gail Parent … Created by
- Ann Marcus … Created by, Writer
- Jerry Adelman … Created by, Writer
- Earle Hagen … Music by
- Louise Lasser … Cast, Mary Hartman
- Mary Kay Place … Cast, Loretta Haggers
- Graham Jarvis … Cast, Charlie Haggers
- Dabney Coleman … Cast, Merle Jeeter
- Sparky Marcus … Cast, Jimmy Joe Jeeter
- Michael Lembeck … Cast, Clete Mizenheimer
- Abbe Kanter … Cast, Shirley Steen
- James E. Brodhead … Cast, Tucker McMarshall
- Peter Salim … Cast, Norman Nardine
- David Susskind … Cast, himself
- Norman Lear … Cast, himself