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
James L. Brooks the short-lived series "Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers" in 1974. He and Burns moved on to "Rhoda", a spin-off of "Mary Tyler Moore", taking Valerie Harper's character Rhoda Morgenstern into her own show. It was well received, lasting four years and earning Brooks several Emmys. The duo's next project came in 1977 in the shape of "Lou Grant", a second "Mary Tyler Moore" spin-off, which they created along with Tinker. Unlike its source however, the series was a drama starring Edward Asner as Grant. James Brown of the Museum of Broadcast Communications said it "explore[d] a knotty issue facing