The Mary Tyler Moore Show ( also known simply by the name of the show's star, Mary Tyler Moore ) is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977.

More laughter was generated on such shows as Abbott and Costello, Amos ' n ' Andy, Burns and Allen, Easy Aces, Ethel and Albert, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Goldbergs, The Great Gildersleeve, The Halls of Ivy ( which featured screen star Ronald Colman and his wife Benita Hume ), Meet Corliss Archer, Meet Millie, and Our Miss Brooks.

Ball had initially wanted both actors to reprise their roles on television, however, both were unavailable at the time the show went into production as Benaderet was already playing Blanche Morton on Burns and Allen, and Gordon was under contract by CBS to play Mr. Conklin on the radio and television versions of Our Miss Brooks.

2046 was called the best film of 2005 by Michael Atkinson ( The Village Voice ), Daryl Chin ( Journal of Performance and Art ), Josef Brown ( Vue Weekly ), Sean Burns ( Philadelphia Weekly ), Will Sloan ( The Martingrove Beacon ), and Justine Elias ( The Guardian ), and was ranked among the top ten best films of the year by Manohla Dargis ( The New York Times ), Richard Corliss ( Time Magazine ), Same Adams ( Philadelphia City Paper ), Leslie Camhi ( The Village Voice ), Jason Anderson ( eye Weekly ), Gary Dretzka ( Movie City News ), Godfrey Cheshire ( The Independent Weekly ), Ty Burr ( The Boston Globe ), Liza Bear ( indieWIRE ), Edward Crouse ( The Village Voice ), Jeffrey M. Anderson ( The San Francisco Examiner ), John DeFore ( Austin American Statesman ), Brian Brooks ( indieWIRE ), Chris Barsanti ( Filmcritic. com ), F. X.

Grant Tinker hired Brooks and Burns at MTM Productions to create The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970.

Brooks and Burns then created two successful spin-offs from Mary Tyler Moore in the shape of Rhoda ( a comedy ) and Lou Grant ( a drama ).

Brooks left Room 222 as head writer after one year to work on other pilots and brought Burns in to produce the show.

Brooks and Burns were hired by CBS programming executive Grant Tinker to create a series together with MTM Productions for Tinker's wife Mary Tyler Moore which became The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Initially the show was unpopular with CBS executives who demanded Tinker fire Brooks and Burns.

In 1995, Brooks and Groening were involved in a public dispute over the episode " A Star Is Burns ".

The episode which introduced her character, " Support Your Local Mother ," was so well-received that it won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing Achievement in a Comedy Series for James L. Brooks and Allan Burns.

* Heather Burns as Meryl Brooks

The original cast consisted of Brooks Ashmanskas, Andrea Burns, Jessica Molaskey, and Billy Porter ( Porter's part was sung by Ty Taylor on the original cast recording ).

Gene Reynolds, James L. Brooks and Allan Burns were executive producers, and Gary David Goldberg was a producer.

Television producer James L. Brooks, who later collaborated with Burns on these series, created, among others, Room 222 and Taxi, and served as executive producer of The Simpsons ( which later parodied the show in the " Lovematic Grandpa " segment of The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase ), got his start in television sitcoms on My Mother the Car when he was called upon to rewrite a script for an episode of the series.

Others who appeared on the show over the years include Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Meredith, Sam Sheppard, Mother Teresa, Jerry Rubin, Angela Davis, Madelyn Murray O ' Hair, Alfred Hitchcock, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Gene Kelly, Gene Tierney, Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, Mark Hamill, Ginger Rogers, Ricardo Montalban, Howard Keel, Celeste Holm, Dorothy Lamour, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Natalie Wood, Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Peter Lawford, Nanette Fabray, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Lee Marvin, Paul Newman, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Carrie Fisher, Robert Wagner, Diahann Carroll, George Hamilton, Victor Buono, Peter Ustinov, Tammy Grimes, Valerie Harper, Richard Dreyfuss, John Travolta, Louis Armstrong, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Sammy Davis, Jr., Harrison Ford, Eydie Gorme, Jack Jones, Harry Belafonte, Liza Minnelli, Paul Anka, Robert Goulet, Carol Lawrence, Edie Adams, Debbie Reynolds, Gwen Verdon, Connie Francis, Olivia Newton-John, Ben Vereen, Joey Heatherton, Frankie Laine, Eartha Kitt, Sergio Mendes, Buddy Rich, Jerry Vale, Lola Falana, Frankie Valli, Pearl Bailey, Lou Rawls, Yank Barry, Tina Turner, Tom Waits, Eddy Arnold, Johnny Cash, Roy Clark, Kenny Rogers, Ray Stevens, Janis Ian, Bernie Taupin, Ian Anderson, Marcel Marceau, Muhammad Ali, Howard Cosell, Joe Namath, Mason Reese, Ralph Nader, Rex Reed, Martha Mitchell, Victor Borge, Kreskin, Imogene Coca, Phyllis Diller, Fannie Flagg, Lily Tomlin, Joan Rivers, Elayne Boosler, Milton Berle, George Burns, Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks, Alan King, Bill Cosby, Henny Youngman, Jack Carter, Redd Foxx, Rodney Dangerfield, Jan Murray, Shecky Greene, Buddy Hacket, Joey Bishop, Red Skelton, Steve Allen, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, George Schindler, Marty Allen, Robert Klein, George Carlin, Sandy Baron, Artie Johnson, Frank Gorshin, Soupy Sales, Jonathan Winters, Charlie Callas, Norm Crosby, Rip Taylor, Foster Brooks, Irwin Corey, Leonard Barr, Pat Cooper, Rich Little, Stan Kann, Steve Landesberg, Andy Kaufman, Jimmie Walker, Jay Leno, Moe Howard of The Three Stooges, Gloria Parker with her Musical Glasses, Ruth Dickson, Jimmy Edmonson ( better known as " Professor Backwards " who appeared more times than any other guest ).

#" Thunder and Lightning " ( Brooks, Burns )

#" Video Idol " ( Brooks, Burns, Perry )

#" Jessica " ( Brooks, Burns, Perry )

#" Your Attention " ( Brooks, Burns )

Shows like Our Miss Brooks, The Burns and Allen Show and The Jack Benny Program ran concurrently on both radio and TV until television reception reached beyond the major metropolitan areas in the mid-1950s.

While creating MTM Enterprises, Tinker hired Room 222 writers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns to create and produce the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Burns is best known for, alongside James L. Brooks, creating and writing for the television sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda.

Larry David is hired by Mel Brooks as a surefire way of ruining the play and ending its run.

Executive producers James L. Brooks and Richard Sakai hired Mirkin following his exit from The Edge.

Ferrari hired five new drivers, Tony Brooks, Jean Behra, Phil Hill, Dan Gurney, and occasionally Cliff Allison, for the 1959 Formula One season.

In August 2008 it was announced that Bonnie Brooks was hired as president and chief executive officer of the Hudson's Bay Company.

The studio's first big break came in 1988 when James L. Brooks of Gracie Films hired the studio to produce the title sequence for a new comedy series called The Tracey Ullman Show.

Brooks wrote for several shows before being hired as a story editor on My Friend Tony and later creating the series Room 222.

Brooks then went on to write episodes of That Girl, The Andy Griffith Show and My Three Sons before Sheldon Leonard hired him as a story editor on My Friend Tony.

New York Post hockey columnist Larry Brooks quickly criticized Wang for hiring Nolan at the same time that he hired a new general manager, Neil Smith, rather than allow Smith to hire a coach who would report to him.

Jaws was spoofed in Mel Brooks ' film High Anxiety, featuring a psychopathic hired killer named Braces ( played by Rudy De Luca ) who is wearing large metal braces on his teeth.

University of Oregon head coach Rich Brooks hired Bellotti as offensive coordinator in 1989.

In 1990, Gwendolyn Brooks, the well-known poet, was hired as a Distinguished Professor ; she taught classes at CSU up until her death.

Scully hired Norton for the role after James L. Brooks, one of The Simpsons producers, told Scully that Norton was " a big fan of the show " and was willing to guest star in an episode.

In 1951 he was hired by Wilimgton College ( now UNCW ) hired Brooks as their athletic director, basketball coach, baseball coach and chairman of the health and physical education department.

While main cast members Noth, Dzundza, Michael Moriarty and Richard Brooks had eached signed option contracts that allowed them to be hired for the full series, Florek had signed no such contract.

During the late 1860s, Brooks had killed several men in various gunfights, and was briefly hired as a stage driver for the Southwestern Stage Co., before becoming the marshal of Newton, Kansas in 1872.

After Room 222, television executive Grant Tinker hired Brooks and Burns to develop a television series for CBS starring Mary Tyler Moore.

" He wrote a spec script, which made its way via executive producer James L. Brooks to the Simpsons staff, who hired Lapidus to write the episode.

In 1975, Donlavey decided to run full-time, and hired Brooks as driver.

To revamp the Studebaker passenger cars, Egbert hired Brooks Stevens " on a minuscule budget ", with good results such as the Gran Turismo Hawk, but overall sales continued to be well below the break-even point.

In 1975, Donlavey decided to run full-time, and hired Brooks as driver.