Mary Tyler Moore's Most Memorable TV Roles

The Dick Van Dyke Show - 1961-1966

THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW

Moore has early appearances on shows like 77 Sunset Strip, but her breakout role was as capri pants-wearing wife Laurie Petrie on the hit '60s CBS sitcom, starring alongside Dick Van Dyke for five seasons.

Mary Tyler Moore Show - 1970s

THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW

Moore found probably her most famous role in her self-titled '70s CBS sitcom, playing Mary Richards, a single working girl who moves to Minneapolis to work at a TV station. She's joined here by Ted Knight (Ted Baxter) and Georgia Engel (Georgette Franklin).

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MARY

No, you're not seeing things: That really is David Letterman and Michael Keaton (not to mention Swoosie Kurtz) in the ensemble of Moore's 1978 CBS variety show. Unfortunately, it didn't catch on, and CBS yanked it off the air after just three episodes.

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FIRST, YOU CRY

Moore joined Psycho star Anthony Perkins in this 1978 TV movie about a TV correspondent battling breast cancer; it earned Moore an Emmy nomination.

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FINNEGAN BEGIN AGAIN

Moore starred alongside Robert Preston as friends sharing their romantic struggles in HBO's 1985 TV movie.

The Last Best Year - 1990

THE LAST BEST YEAR

Moore costarred with Bernadette Peters to play a therapist who bonds with an ill patient in this 1990 ABC TV movie.

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STOLEN BABIES

Moore won an Emmy (her seventh) for this 1993 Lifetime TV movie, playing the head of an adoption agency who's secretly running a black-market baby ring.

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NEW YORK NEWS

Moore returned to series TV in 1995 in this CBS newsroom drama, playing hard-nosed editor Louise Felcott. Moore reportedly hated her character and tried to get out of her contract, but the show was cancelled before she had the chance.

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ELLEN

Moore joined Ellen DeGeneres on her self-titled ABC sitcom in a pair of episodes in 1996 and '97, playing herself.

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LIKE MOTHER, LIKE SON

Moore played against type as real-life killer Sante Kimes, the mother who teamed up with her son Kenneth to commit murder, in this 2001 TV movie.

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BLESSINGS

Moore played a reclusive heiress in CBS' 2003 TV movie, based on the Anna Quindlen novel.

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THAT '70S SHOW

Moore poked fun at herself in 2006 by playing Christine St. George, the self-obsessed star of a local TV show, in three episodes of the hit Fox sitcom.

Hot In Cleveland - 2010

HOT IN CLEVELAND

Moore reunited with her Mary Tyler Moore Show costar Betty White, playing an old friend (and cellmate!) of Elka's in a 2011 episode. She returned to the show in 2013, along with MTM costars Valerie Harper, Cloris Leachman and Georgia Engel.

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