Season 2
(1971)
Cast
as Mary Richards
as Lou Grant
as Murray Slaughter
as Ted Baxter
as Rhoda Morgenstern
Episodes
The Bird and ...Um ...Bess 0.0
September 18, 1971
In the second-season premiere, after Mary Richards produces a ""What's Your Sexual IQ?"" documentary for the Six O'Cloc…
I Am Curious Cooper 0.0
September 25, 1971
Mary is intrigued by the voice of Lou Grant's friend, Mike Cooper, and asks to be set up with him. Lou breaks his polic…
He's No Heavy . . . He's My Brother 0.0
October 2, 1971
Mary and Rhoda take an unplanned vacation to Mexico but have to do a strange favor for a Mexican restaurant owner for r…
Room 223 0.0
October 9, 1971
Mary and Rhoda enroll in a night school course in journalism and Mary begins dating the lecturer.
A Girl's Best Mother Is Not Her Friend 0.0
October 16, 1971
When Ida, Rhoda's mother, visits, she sees how well Phyllis and Bess get on, and how closely Mary appears to her mother…
Cover Boy 0.0
October 23, 1971
Jack Cassidy guest stars as professional model Hal Baxter, who comes to visit his brother Ted at WJM-TV. Immediately, …
Didn't You Used to Be . . . Wait . . . Don't Tell Me 0.0
October 30, 1971
Mary attends her high school reunion and meets up with her former boyfriend Howard Arnell, who continues to have feelin…
Thoroughly Unmilitant Mary 0.0
November 6, 1971
The writing and technical unions go on strike, leaving only Lou, Mary, and Ted in the newsroom. WJM-TV makes Lou be se…
And Now, Sitting in for Ted Baxter 0.0
November 13, 1971
Ted is forced to take a vacation and the anchorman hired to sit in for him becomes a huge success.
Don't Break the Chain 0.0
November 20, 1971
Mary gets a chain letter from Lou, and she is persuaded to send it on. To her surprise, one of the recipients comes for…
The Six-and-a-Half-Year Itch 0.0
November 27, 1971
Mary, Rhoda and Lou go to a John Wayne movie, where they spot Lou's son-in-law with an unknown woman.
. . . Is a Friend in Need 0.0
December 4, 1971
Rhoda loses her job as a window-dresser and isn't in a hurry to find something new. When there is a job opening at WJM-…
The Square-Shaped Room 0.0
December 11, 1971
When Edie is out of town, Lou hires Rhoda to redecorate his living room. However, Rhoda's tastes are too modern.
Ted Over Heels 0.0
December 18, 1971
After Ted appears on the Chuckles the Clown Show, he falls in love with Chuckles' daughter.
The Five-Minute Dress 0.0
January 1, 1972
After volunteering some of her spare time for a worthy cause, Mary begins dating the Governor's aide. Unfortunately, th…
Feeb 0.0
January 8, 1972
An incompetent waitress is fired after Mary complains about her poor service and Mary feels obliged to hire her when sh…
The Slaughter Affair 0.0
January 15, 1972
Murray takes on a night job as a cab driver in order to save up and buy his wife Marie a new car for their 10th wedding…
Baby Sit-Com 0.0
January 22, 1972
Mary agrees to babysit Bess for the weekend, but then a former boyfriend, in town for a few days, asks her out. When sh…
More Than Neighbors 0.0
January 29, 1972
After being persuaded by Phyllis, Ted moves into a vacant apartment below Mary's but Mary and Rhoda are not thrilled by…
The Care and Feeding of Parents 0.0
February 5, 1972
Bess gets top marks for a report she wrote for school, and Phyllis pressures her to write a book based on it, calling o…
Where There's Smoke, There's Rhoda 0.0
February 12, 1972
When Rhoda's apartment is destroyed by fire, she moves in with Mary. The two find that while they are best friends, the…
You Certainly Are a Big Boy 0.0
February 19, 1972
Mary begins dating an architect and is astonished to learn that his son is only six years younger than she is.
Some of My Best Friends Are Rhoda 0.0
February 26, 1972
Through a minor car accident, Mary befriends a young woman, Joanne. Rhoda becomes jealous when Mary spends more time wi…
His Two Right Arms 0.0
March 4, 1972
Mary gets city councilman Pete Peterson to appear on Face the People and discovers that he is completely incompetent. S…