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
Lou Grant (TV series) in a Drama Series" four of the five years the series ran; Walden, Kelsey, and Adams all received multiple nominations for supporting Emmys. Ed Asner served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild, in which capacity during the 1980s he opposed U.S. policy in Central America, working closely with Medical Aid for El Salvador. The sudden cancellation of "Lou Grant" in 1982 was the subject of much controversy. The show had high ratings, the level of which should have justified its ongoing presence in primetime (it was in the ACNielsen top ten throughout its final month on the