A childhood icon: remembering Mary Tyler Moore

"Who can turn the world on with her smile? Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile? Well it's you girl, and you should know it With each glance and every little movement you show it Love is all around, no need to waste it You can have a town, why don't you take it You're gonna make it after all You're gonna make it after all How will you make it on your own? This world is awfully big, girl this time you're all alone But it's time you started living It's time you let someone else do some giving Love is all around, no need to waste it You can have a town, why don't you take it You're gonna make it after all."


Wow. She's gone. Mary Tyler Moore died this afternoon. May she Rest In Peace.
My heart is broken.

We did not watch The Dick Van Dyke Show when it originally aired.  I was a wee tot, and Dad controlled the television.

But, when I was 9 years old, The Mary Tyler Moore Show premiered on CBS. Every Saturday night thereafter I spent that half hour with Mary and company. Oh what a delight they were! Always funny, always entertaining.  Mary, Rhoda, Phyllis, Lou Grant, Murray Slaughter, Ted Baxter, Georgette Franklin, and Sue Ann Nivens.....what a crew! What hilarity ensued.

The theme song,... it just takes me back to that living room of my youth,.. the red swivel chair, the tv -a tube television, on a metal cart.... and the warmth and comfort of my parents suburban home....

The lessons we learned from Mary and company.  The first television program about a truly independent woman, making it on her own.  "You're gonna make it after all."  Such hope in that.

We were there for all of her trials and tribulations, and hilarity.  Who can forget Chuckles the Clown? (may he rest in peace) Mary simply could not keep herself from laughing at his funeral.  I always thought Chuckles the Clown would have appreciated that --after all his life's work was making people laugh.  And that episode wholly endeared Mary to us -she was so very human.

Thank you, Mary.  You were an inspiration to the girls who first watched your show.  Thank you, and Rest In Peace dear lady.

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