Mary Tyler Moore: Seasons 1-7

Great show, lame packaging
As is to be expected this show is still fantastic, unfortunately fox couldn't be bothered to put any effort into creating these DVDs, particularly after the second season

Pros-

- This package has every episode ever
- The episodes do not appear to be edited versions
- When you buy this you will be able to watch the episode where chuckles dies anytime you want
- You stand to get a good discount on the bundle (each season costs about 15 dollars each if bought separately)
- Includes bonus features, most of which were put together in relation to the early seasons.

Cons

- Fox did nothing to make these DVDs special
- The video quality hasn't been touched everything is still very grainy
- This is just an amazon repackaging of the original DVDs so don't expect anything new or fancy that you didn't get before
- This set doesn't even come with episode lists until season 6
- Special features and content stops...

The gold standard
During the 1970's, CBS created a golden age of great comedy. Among them was the "Carol Burnett Show", "Bob Newhart Show", "MASH", and the groundbreaking "Mary Tyler Moore Show". This series centered around a single young woman who becomes producer of the news at a Minneapolis television station.

The "Mary Tyler Moore Show" was different from its predecessors because it portrayed a thirtyish woman who is smart, capable, independent, and happy being single. The episodes spent as much time examining Mary in the workplace as they did chronicling her social life.

The quality of writing for the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" was consistently intelligent, mature, and funny without being crude or condescending to audiences.

The characters on MTM were so richly developed by the writers and a brilliant acting ensemble that audiences could see them as real people, not one-dimensional caricatures. You came to love and understand them: Mary Richards, intelligent and...

What's not to like about ordering the complete series?
The Mary Tyler Moore Show is one of the best, if not THE best situation comedies of it's era. So, why only 3 stars? Each season was in it's own translucent DVD case. The cases for seasons 3 & 5 had the internal hinges broken off. All the other cases had small bits of plastic (from the internal hinges or the hub locks) rattling around inside them. Fortunately I had new cases available and replaced all 7 of them. Most of my other multi-episode DVD's have a "Play All" feature. This set does not. To play the next episode in this series, you have to step through the set-up process again. If you are hard of hearing, as I am, that's a few additional steps for each episode to turn on the subtitles. Every 25 minutes! This whole product could have been done a lot better, but my chief complaint is the packaging. Very, very shoddy!

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