Prozac was still decades in the future. The father probably took blood pressure meds.
Mary would have been taking The Pill, which was in the news all the time then. The implication that a nice girl like Mary was having sex was a very big deal at the time, a bit shocking for a tv sitcom. Dramas had different standards, and movies were very different.
Re: posts 78 and 80, I stand multiply corrected, though on the latter I mistakenly thought White’s character started appearing on MTM relatively late in the show’s run, after White’s Carol Burnett appearance (as “Ellen”).
Clearly I need to up my research game.
Interesting: I was just scrolling over 2016–2017 at the Dead People Server and saw that Mary outlived former husband Grant Tinker by almost two months (28 November vs 25 January).
Great website, that one!