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
Maude (TV series) program (during the heyday of topical sitcoms, which its presence helped to create), when it was regularly one of the top-ten highest-rated American television programs in any given week. In Great Britain, "Maude" was not shown nationally, although it was shown (beginning in 1975) in the ITV regions of Westward, Border, Tyne Tees, Anglia, Yorkshire, Granada and Channel. Satellite station Sky One ran the series in the early/mid 1990s. In the fifth season, "Maude" unexpectedly plunged from #4 to #31 in the Nielsen ratings as its lead-ins "Rhoda" and "Phyllis" began to struggle. In 1978, late in the sixth season,