Mary and Rhoda altogether. By 1999, it was confirmed that Moore and Harper would reunite instead in the two-hour made-for-TV movie "Mary and Rhoda" which began filming on October 18, 1999. "Mary and Rhoda" was released on DVD in Region 1 on April 20, 2004 by Studio Works Entertainment. Mary and Rhoda Mary and Rhoda is a 2000 American made-for-television comedy-drama film starring Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper reprising their roles as Mary Richards and Rhoda Morgenstern from the 1970–1977 sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". Although the film is a spin-off of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", James L. Brooks and
Teen sitcom format to "The Wonder Years", which ended before "Boy Meets World" debuted in 1993, both of which focused on a boy dealing with the challenges that come with growing into adolescence) and "Family Matters" (which originated as a family sitcom spun off from the family-friendly though adult-centered "Perfect Strangers", but soon shifted more of its focus towards its teenage characters due to the popularity of the character of nerdy high school (and later, college) student Steve Urkel). Over time, the Big Three television networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) began shifting away from family-oriented comedies toward comedy series focused on adults