#MaryHartmanMaryHartman 044 (1976) - 9/10

1️⃣ The previous episode is the famous one, the celebrated one, because it features the untimely death of Coach Fedders. But this is a much better instalment. Tighter, more focused.

2️⃣ Mary's heartbreak, at causing the death, is sharply/cleverly contrasted with the reaction of the man's wife/widow. Her dialogue is really well written, and #RevaRose is terrific.

3️⃣ According to #IMDb users, this is 41st best episode.

#MaryHartmanMaryHartman 043 (1976) - 8/10

1️⃣ Number 97 on TV Guide's Top 100 Episodes of All Time, 2009 edition.

2️⃣ Coach Fedders isn't feeling well. Mary visits him and Blanche, and forces a bowl of chicken soup on the heavily-medicated (and drowsy) man.

3️⃣ And while the women sit and chat about Mary's voracious magazine-reading habits, the coach falls into the soup and slowly drowns behind them. Struggling all the while to get back up.

#MaryHartmanMaryHartman 042 (1976) - 8/10
Two ongoing storylines (seemingly) conclude here.

1️⃣ Mary breaks Raymond & Roberta up by matching Roberta with someone else. The someone else is... Dennis, who is still very much in love with (married) Mary. The ending of the scene, as Mary walks away, is astonishingly sad.

2️⃣ Before all that, Mary's single-minded obsession with events in the daytime soap opera was very funny. Very on-the-nose for what this show is doing.

#70sTV #satire

#MaryHartmanMaryHartman 041 (1976) - 7/10

1️⃣ This episode starts strong, with a couple of Mary-Mae scenes. Mae contemplates suicide. Mary talks her out of it, and learns a lot more about her past.

2️⃣ After that, things drop off when we visit Steve's apartment for the first time. Will he and Cathy have to break up? Do we care? Finally, a seedy lawyer visits Charlie and Loretta.

#StarTrekDeepSpaceNine s6e4 (1997) - 10/10
Great episode. Smart.

1️⃣ The focus is largely on Odo. #SalomeJens (#MaryHartmanMaryHartman) returns to the show, as the nameless shapeshifter, and gets several terrific scenes with #ReneAuberjonois. He is doing some of his best-ever work in this episode.

2️⃣ The ending, where the plans of the #DS9 Resistance go awry, is quite shocking. Mostly because of why they go wrong.

3️⃣ Key episode in Quark's development. He chooses a side.

#90sTV #StarTrek

#Tonight in 1976 — #MaryHartmanMaryHartman debuted in first-run syndication.

#LouiseLasser starred in this satirical #SoapOpera from producer #NormanLear.

#OnThisDay #ClassicTV #1970s #1970sTV #Nostalgia #MaryHartman #ClassicSoaps