Beyond "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" Quiz

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Edward Asner won a total of five Emmy Awards for playing the character of Lou Grant. Three of those were earned as Outstanding Supporting Actor (1971, 1972 and 1975) while he was on "Mary Tyler Moore". The other two (1978, 1980) were earned while playing on "Lou Grant".

The series, which ran from 1977 to 1982, is notable because it was the first dramatic spinoff of a sitcom in U.S. television history.

Answer: "Just Men!"

Created by Rick Rosner, who is better known as the creator of "CHiPs", "Just Men!" featured two female contestants answering questions on the lifestyles of seven male celebrities. Whoever won the main game got a chance to win a car in the bonus round. White was the first woman to win the Daytime Emmy as a game-show host, which is fitting considering she was married to longtime "Password" host Allen Ludden, who she met on that show, for 18 years.

Answer: "The District"

Inspired by the work of deputy NYPD commissioner Jack Maple, "The District" starred veteran actor Craig T. Nelson, best known for his work on the hit show "Coach", as the head of Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia. The show wasn't Amos's first exposure to playing in police dramas.

He appeared as Captain Dolan, boss of Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) and Dee Dee McCall (Stepfanie Kramer), during the first season of "Hunter".

Answer: "McHale's Navy"

Gavin MacLeod was involved as a regular on three hit shows within a span of a quarter-century. On "McHale's Navy", MacLeod shared screen time with Academy Award-winner Ernest Borgnine, future "Carol Burnett Show" standout Tim Conway, and character actor Bill Quinn, who would play Mary Richards's dad on "Mary Tyler Moore".

He received three Golden Globe Award nominations for playing Murray Slaughter on "Mary Tyler Moore" and two more nominations for playing Merrill Stubing on "The Love Boat."

Answer: "Aquaman"

Ted Knight did work on "The Superman/Aquaman Hour" in 1967--three years before he joined the "Mary Tyler Moore" cast. The Aquaman portion of the show was repackaged to become a show in its own right the next year. Knight's work as the narrator on "Super Friends" included the classic line, "Meanwhile, back at the Hall of Justice..." Knight's biggest success after "Mary Tyler Moore", though, came when he played cartoonist Henry Rush on the sitcom "Too Close For Comfort".

Answer: The death of her husband.

Phyllis's doctor husband, Lars, was often referred to but never seen on screen. After his death, Phyllis and her daughter Bess (played by Lisa Gerritsen) moved back to San Francisco to live with Lars's mother and step-father. In the two seasons that "Phyllis" ran, the character worked in a photography studio and as an administrative assistant to a member of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors. Leachman won an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Phyllis on "Mary Tyler Moore" in 1974 and a Golden Globe Award for her work on "Phyllis" in 1976. Later in her career, she replaced Charlotte Rae as the star of the popular sitcom, "The Facts of Life."

Answer: Melissa Gilbert

Valerie Harper won a total of four Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for playing Rhoda Morganstern on both "Mary Tyler Moore" and "Rhoda". She also starred in "Valerie", a modest hit on NBC, but her involvement with that show lasted just one season. Lorimar fired her during a contract dispute, and Sandy Duncan took over as the star of the show, which was renamed "Valerie's Family" and later "The Hogan Family". Gilbert and Harper were engaged in a race to succeed Emmy Award-winning actor William Daniels as SAG president.

Answer: "Night Court"

A graduate of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Georgia Engel received two Emmy Award nominations for her work as Georgette Franklin Baxter on "Mary Tyler Moore." She also received three more Emmy nominations for playing Pat McDougall, the mother-in-law of Robert Barone (played by Brad Garrett) on the hit show "Everybody Loves Raymond." Engel had starring roles on "The Betty White Show", which ran on CBS during the 1977-78 season, and "Jennifer Slept Here," which ran on NBC during the 1983-84 season.

Answer: "The Brady Bunch"

Joyce Bulifant was tagged to play Carol Brady on what would become the hit show "The Brady Bunch". But the producers decided to go with Florence Henderson instead. Despite that setback, Bulifant was a regular on shows like "The Bill Cosby Show", "Big John, Little John" and "Flo". Off screen, Bulifant was married to two well-known names in the entertainment business--James MacArthur (Danny Williams on "Hawaii Five-O"), her first husband, from 1958 to 1967, and William Asher (her third husband, and former husband of "Bewitched" star Elizabeth Montgomery) from 1976 to 1993.

Answer: "Bosom Buddies"

MTM Enterprises had a number of critically-acclaimed and award-winning shows during its existence, from sitcoms like "WKRP in Cincinnati", "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Sparks" to dramas like "Paris", "St. Elsewhere", "The White Shadow". "Mary Tyler Moore" and its three spinoffs--"Lou Grant", "Phyllis" and "Rhoda"--were also produced by MTM Enterprises, which Moore ran with her husband, Grant Tinker. MTM Enterprises became part of News Corporation in 1998, and was eventually folded into 20th Century Fox Television. "Bosom Buddies", which starred Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari as men living in a women's-only hotel, was a product of Paramount Television.