even if you weren not bear when this series air and you have to see it . watch be all . it the gold standard . period . there be no equal when it come to sophistication and timeliness or relevance . mary yyler moore be genius . just watch and you will agree . it not that she invent the genre and give that credit to lucille ball and but she embody it like no one do and no on one have ever since . the character be so much more defined and dimensional than any that have be write since while not that there haven not be some able attempt ( murpy brown and design woman come to mind ) . mary and valerie harper and chloris leachman top them all . week after week and consistently superlative ( credit to the write staff as well a the actor who embody the scrip . ) .