Being Mary Tyler Moore
TV Guide Magazine|May 22 - June 11, 2023
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE Friday, May 26, 8/7c, HBO
Diane Snyder
Being Mary Tyler Moore

SHE WORE PANTS and flats as Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show when other 1960s television housewives were in dresses and heels. In the ’70s, she starred as The Mary Tyler Moore Show’s happily single Mary Richards, whose family consisted of her friends and her TV station coworkers. In both decades, groundbreaking actress Mary Tyler Moore (right, circa 1975), who died in 2017 at age 80, was a funny, winning blend of poise and vulnerability that viewers—especially women—connected to.

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