A true, sad loss of someone who was instrumental in changing the television world in her time. 
Join the Mary Tyler Moore Masturbation Society (safe for work, if this post is).
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Hats off to one of the most beautiful and influential women of the twentieth century. Your career not only changed television history, it also changed society in the 1970s.You turned the world upside-down with your smile.
RIP, Mary. Loved watching you on Saturday nights in the '70s, and I even remember The Dick Van Dyke Show.
He’s also going to be in the new Mary Poppins Returns. He plays the son of the banker he played before.
She was super hot on the DVD show, only 23. The flip hair cut, capris… “Oh Rob…!”
In the DvD episode “The Man from Emperor”, Drew uses the intercom to call his secretary, Sam. MTM did Sam’s one-line answer (IIRC, “Yes, Mr. Pearson.”)
When I was a kid, I loved her. Her eponymous show debuted when I was in middle school and finished not long before I graduated from college. To me she represented the kind of person you wanted to be when you grew up.
That was a character on TV.
As a person, she was just a regular human being. She had a lot of issues and a lot of tragedy just as anyone else who pursues life.
That is what made her special.
I do remember her saying she regretted working so much when her son was little(he died youngish IIRC).
It made a big impression on me, at a time I was working 100 hour weeks. No one regrets missing out on work you do family.
She also faced the worst thing a person can ever face: Her only child Richard was killed in a gun accident.
I’ll always remember the Mary Tyler Moore bit where her parents are visiting, her mother says “Don’t forget to take your pill” and both her father and Mary say “I won’t.” Mary Richards, a single woman, was taking THE PILL. That was so groundbreaking back then.
I don’t get it. Why was her father taking birth control pills? Was his something else? They didn’t have *that *man pill back then.
Maybe it was Prozac?
Her father was old, and might have been taken any kind of pills. However, Mary saying “I won’t” was probably a direction reference to THE pill, and she was a single woman. Back then, single woman were not supposed to be having sex.
First rule of comedy: If you got to explain it, it ain’t funny.
Well, actually, White’d played a bitchy character in a guest appearance on a 1975 episode of The Carol Burnett Show as “Eleanor”, the sister of Burnett’s “Eunice” character. Their relationship was a study in passive-aggression that minimized the “passive” part.
Memory lane, with the Eunice sketch starting at 21:48.
I haven’t seen that episode in years, but I’m sure the line got a huge laugh! 
You do realize the pill is also given for things other than birth control?
I don’t know about T.V, but I have seen films from 40’s, 50’s where it’s clear that single women are having sex.
Depends on whether you’re talking about a pill or The Pill. And TV used to be far more prudish than it is today.
(Check out the videos of The Farmer’s Daughter on YouTube. The hottest it got in 1963–66 was William Windom and Inger Stevens necking on a chaise lounge.)
Here is some info about Bill Quinn, the actor who played Mary’s father, Walter Richards. His final role was Dr McCoy’s father in Star Trek V.
BTW, how many of you know that the name of Mary’s mother (Nanette Fabray) was “Dottie”?
Yeah, it was THE pill, and that kinda stuff never got brought up in sitcoms. It reminds of the laugh All In The Family got when Archie said he’d be right down, and then the audience heard a toilet flush! At the time it was quite hilarious.
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cough That’s Ellen, not Eleanor.
A tribute from Dick van Dyke:
But White’s Sue Ann Nivens’ character was introduced on MTM in 1973 and made multiple appearances in the 1973-74 season.