Mary Tyler Moore pivotal one-hour musical special called "Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman", Moore and husband Grant Tinker successfully pitched a sitcom centered on Moore to CBS. "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" is a half-hour newsroom sitcom featuring Ed Asner as her gruff boss Lou Grant. Moore's show proved so popular that three other regular characters, Valerie Harper as Rhoda Morgenstern, Cloris Leachman as Phyllis Lindstrom and Ed Asner as Lou Grant were also spun off into their own series. The premise of the single working woman's life, alternating during the program between work and home, became a television staple. After
Richard Masur Masur studied acting at The Yale School of Drama and appeared on stage before acting in movies and television shows during the 1970s. He appeared on an episode of "The Waltons" as well as in an episode of "All in the Family" in late 1974 and had recurring roles in "Rhoda" from 1974 to 1978; "One Day at a Time" from 1975 to 1976; "Hot l Baltimore" in 1975; and the pilot to an NBC sitcom, "Bumpers", in 1977. In 1981, Masur played the role of a child molestor armed with a camera in the television film "Fallen Angel". His