A lot of folks liked the clip I embedded recently from the short-lived 1978 Mary Tyler Moore variety show. Here's about seven minutes from the first episode. I remember thinking that Michael Keaton, Dick Shawn and David Letterman were all pretty good as individuals but that the "family" that was the core of the show's concept was a bunch of performers who seemed to have nothing to do with each other. It also felt to me like the ladies of the company were selected to not upstage the star…and they were all led by a lady who didn't seem at all comfortable in her role…
