Season 4: Episode 19

Season 4: Episode 21

The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970)

Season 4: Episode 20

Better Late . . . That's a Pun . . . Than Never

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Air Date:

2025-12-06

Genre

Comedy

Release Date

1970

End Date

1977

Episode Description

To relieve her boredom, Mary jokingly writes a humorous obituary of one of the people in the WJM-TV file. Coincidentally, the same person dies the following day and the obituary is read on the air. Lou has no choice but to suspend Mary, but she threatens to quit in response.

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Cast

Mary Tyler Moore

Love is All Around

Today I Am a Ma'am

Bess, You is My Daughter Now

Divorce Isn't Everything

Keep Your Guard Up

Support Your Local Mother

Toulouse-Lautrec is One of My Favorite Artists

The Snow Must Go On

Bob & Rhoda & Teddy & Mary

Assistant Wanted, Female

Anchorman Overboard

Party is Such Sweet Sorrow

Second Story Story

We Closed in Minneapolis

The Boss Isn't Coming to Dinner

A Friend in Deed

Smokey the Bear Wants You

The 45-Year-Old Man

The Bird and ...Um ...Bess

I Am Curious Cooper

He's No Heavy . . . He's My Brother

A Girl's Best Mother Is Not Her Friend

Didn't You Used to Be . . . Wait . . . Don't Tell Me

And Now, Sitting in for Ted Baxter

Don't Break the Chain

The Six-and-a-Half-Year Itch

. . . Is a Friend in Need

The Square-Shaped Room

The Five-Minute Dress

The Slaughter Affair

More Than Neighbors

The Care and Feeding of Parents

Where There's Smoke, There's Rhoda

You Certainly Are a Big Boy

His Two Right Arms

The Good-Time News

What is Mary Richards Really Like?

Who's in Charge Here?

Enter Rhoda's Parents

It's Whether You Win or Lose

Rhoda the Beautiful

Just Around the Corner

But Seriously, Folks

Farmer Ted and the News

Have I Found a Guy for You

You've Got a Friend

It Was Fascination, I Know

Rhoda Morgenstern: Minneapolis to New York

The Courtship of Mary's Father's Daughter

The Georgette Story

What Do You Do When the Boss Says, I Love You?

Murray Faces Life

Remembrance of Things Past

Put On a Happy Face

Mary Richards and the Incredible Plant Lady

The Lars Affair

Angels in the Snow

Rhoda's Sister Gets Married

The Lou and Edie Story

Hi There, Sports Fans

Son of But Seriously Folks

Lou's First Date

Love Blooms at Hemples

The Dinner Party

I Gave at the Office

Almost a Nun's Story

Happy Birthday, Lou!

WJM Tries Harder

Cottage for Sale

The Co-Producers

Best of Enemies

Better Late . . . That's a Pun . . . Than Never

Ted Baxter Meets Walter Cronkite

Lou's Second Date

I Was a Single for WJM

Will Mary Richards Go to Jail?

Not Just Another Pretty Face

You Sometimes Hurt the One You Hate

Lou and That Woman

Menage-a-Phyllis

Not a Christmas Story

What Are Friends For?

A Boy's Best Friend

A Son for Murray

An Affair to Forget

Mary Richards: Producer

Phyllis Whips Inflation

The Shame of the Cities

Marriage Minneapolis Style

You Try To Be a Nice Guy

You Can't Lose 'em All

Ted Baxter's Famous Broadcasters' School

Anyone Who Hates Kids and Dogs

Edie Gets Married

Ted's Moment of Glory

Mary's Delinquent

Lou Douses an Old Flame

Mary Richards Falls in Love

Ted's Tax Refund

The Happy Homemaker Takes Lou Home

One Boyfriend Too Many

What Do You Want to Do When You Produce?

Not With My Wife, I Don't

Once I Had a Secret Love

Mary's Aunt Returns

A Reliable Source

Sue Ann Falls in Love

Ted and the Kid

Mary the Writer

Sue Ann's Sister

What's Wrong with Swimming?

Ted's Change of Heart

One Producer Too Many

My Son, the Genius

Mary Gets a Lawyer

Mary's Insomnia

Ted's Temptation

Lou's Army Reunion

The Ted and Georgette Show

Sue Ann Gets the Ax

Hail the Conquering Gordy

Mary and the Sexagenarian

Murray Ghosts for Ted

Mary's Three Husbands

Mary's Big Party

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