The Mary Tyler Moore Show (also known simply as Mary Tyler Moore) is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns and starring actress Mary Tyler Moore. The show originally aired on CBS from September 19, 1970, to March 19, 1977.
In 1995, Entertainment Weekly said that “TV’s most famous bachelorette pad” was Mary’s apartment. The fictitious address was 119 North Weatherly, but the exterior establishing shots were of a real house in Minneapolis at 2104 Kenwood Parkway. In the real house,
an unfinished attic occupied the space behind the window recreated on the interior studio set of Mary’s apartment. Once fans of the series discovered where exterior shots had been taken, the house became a popular tourist destination. According to Moore, the woman who lived in the house was “overwhelmed” by people showing up and “asking if Mary was around”. To discourage crews from filming additional footage of the house, the owners placed an “Impeach Nixon” sign beneath the window where Mary supposedly lived. The house continued to attract multiple tour buses a day more than a decade after production ended. In January 2017, the house was marketed for a price of $1.7 million.
[Jim: We actually started watching it a couple of weeks back, as our morning coffee show, after we got through Cheers. While in some ways it has dated spectacularly, the basic humor and characters is still pretty good.]
