Mary Richards was the coolest. She wasn't a TV mom she was a TV woman. She had a car a job lots of dates a wicked neat apartment. This is wonderful. Thanks.

Rhoda's apartment always reminded me a little bit of the inside of Jeannie's bottle. Full bright colors and similarly shaped. Sad to think that so many of the cast are now gone. We do still have Dick Van Dyke ❤ This made my day!

Our last name is Morgenstern, and you better believe that when we got our puppy we named her Rhoda! Great video!!!!

thank you for this! When the first season came on the air, I loved the yellow wicker chair, so my mom suggested I write to the set decorator. He was kind enough to answer my letter and told me where they purchased it. Lucky for me (and my dad's convertable car!) we went to the Los Angeles store Rappaport, and the salesman told me yes, there were two chairs originally, the designer bought one, and I got the other! Many years later, I gave it to my niece, with the strict instructions "mary's chair" is to stay in the family!

I'm a guy and I grew up watching this show and loving it, and I get weirdly choked up seeing this apartment in such detail. I don't know why, maybe because being a little kid in the 70's is something I look back on so fondly.

This show was such a classic. One of the best TV sets of all time. The Saturday night CBS lineup was epic in the 1970s. I would love to see you do The Bob Newhart Show.

Mary’s apartment was ICONIC and felt more fabulous and upscale than it was.

Mary's apartment was my dream home for years and years. Honestly, it still is!! Thanks so much for this.

Oh, what memories! Mary made all of us believe we could make it after all. As always, you did a fabulous job! Thank you for your wonderful work - these iconic designs would be lost to history if not for you. Much Love - Nona

That Girl, I would like to see her apartment.

I loved her apartment so much. Just 2 years ago while visiting my aunt in Minneapolis, we found the actual house that they filmed the outside from. It has changed some but still a grande home. I was in awe and took so many photos as it was one of my favorite shows and I loved her kitchen as small as it was it was cute.

"Hiya, Mar'!" (like how Rhoda used to greet Mary, lol.) Marina, thanks so much for your time and talent in the making of all these videos. I'm an advertising creative director/copywriter who appreciates not only the set design imagery you create, but also your well written informative, nostalgic narrations. And it's hard to stump me on behind the scenes trivia, yet you always do. From one avid fan of classic shows to another - Great job. You rock! Please keep these comin'.

Excellent video! Enjoyed it! I saw Mary Tyler Moore once, in person. It was many years ago, I think around 1979. I was walking by the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. And there was Mary! She was walking a little dog 🐕 on a leash outside the hotel. She was shorter in person than I imagined. I SO wanted to say hello and ask for her autograph, but I couldn't get up the nerve and I really didn't want to bother her. We all miss Mary, so much!

Rhoda's apt SCREAMED the 70's!

If Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper be alive today, they would have been proud.

I never thought of the closet going into the bathroom, I had always just thought the showrunners changed their mind on what was through that door. So great to see it all put together in such high quality, and I love all the included moments from the show!

I love how you've noticed details and pieces of "forgotten" furniture and have included them against the imaginary fourth wall. Very organic solutions. Great work! :)

My all-time favorite show! When I was a little girl, I just knew I’d one day have an apartment just like Mary’s. And work for the news. I ended up with a journalism degree, but alas, no adorable apartment. I also realized I identify more with Rhoda now that I’m an adult🤷‍♀️ What a wonderful show and such memorable and likable characters!

I am 57. I watched the entire series first run. Those Saturday nights at my grandparents house is/was/and will always be so magical to me with MTMS, Newhart, Burnette. I am so thankful to have enjoyed so much time with so many in my family, neighbors...from the "Greatest Generation." I miss all of them so deeply.

I would love to see the apartments from the show Rhoda. It always fascinated me that they were all in the same building. Your videos are amazing and show how hard you work on them. I love watching your take on the 4th walls too.

Brilliant. I'm an old man and you made me cry. You completed a dream for so many of us, and your commentary is truly meaningful. I love that we have this shared experience, so many whose imaginations were sparked by what we didn't see as well as what we did. Thanks so much. Great work here.

I always loved the step down into Mary's apartment as well as the built-in bookshelf. It is interesting how the set was changed over the seasons, but I never noticed. I wonder if the little wooden steps were an afterthought as the first season progressed giving the actors more options for movement? The progression from no steps to one that is permanently built in is a natural one. This is such a familiar space, having grown up watching MTM every Saturday night. It felt like visiting the home of a childhood friend. Thanks for taking me on the tour.

I love the Mary Tyler Moore show

I vaguely remember this show from my childhood but I have no memory of Rhoda’s vibrant apt. Wow! What a colorful space! How could I forget that?? I’m impressed that she painted the exposed lath and plaster. I think it’s the unfinishedness of the walls that give it an attic feel to me. As always thank you so much for your dedication to bringing us insight into iconic movie homes. It is truly a bright spot in my day to sit with you and hear your thoughts on the set itself as well as imaginings of the spaces we don’t have much information about. I have an A on my office wall. I smile at how many of us have done that. ❤️

I just love this! You did an incredible job. The Mary Tyler Moore Show is my all time favorite show and I loved her first apartment, so much

I loved this show. I had the etc letters like Rhoda had in her apartment. I loved what you did with the 4th wall in Mary’s apartment. It was a unique place with the entrance and book shelves and closet going to the bathroom. I was always curious about that bathroom. Surprised it was as large as you’ve shown. Thank You Marina. I love watching your work

No, you are not alone..I dreamed of being Mary and living in that beautiful apartment too! I love everything about that apt and to this day(I'm in my early 60's)I could live there:) This was an awesome episode! Thank you!

Great Work! I love the snow falling outside Mary's window. I love this apartment and still watch the episodes over and over again. Thanks for sharing!

My best friend and I like to borrow the "I'm the Mary, you're the Rhoda" line from Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion. They fought over who was the Mary, but in our case my friend is the Mary and I'm the Rhoda....and we're both totally cool with that! 👌 BTW I've even heard Oprah say she had an "O" on her wall!

This is fantastic! My mom loved the Mary Tyler Moore show and, since we had only one TV when I was growing up, we watched what our parents watched. I have been an interior designer for the past 35 years and, more than any other visual experience I had as a kid, Mary's apartment without a doubt birthed my own interest in interior design. I hadn't seen the set in years but remembered everything about it - from the stained glass "garage door" at the kitchen breakfast bar to the bookcase "step" to the M on the wall. Thank you so much for doing this! (As a side note, I even remembered thinking that the plaster weeping between the lath in Rhoda's apartment meant there was no insulation - a really bad idea considering Minneapolis winters :-).

I was a senior in high school during the first season of the MTM show. I lived for the next episode. I, too, dreamed about the future patterned after MTM. So, all during college and beyond, the MTM show was the hightlight of the TV week. I still love all the reruns. I was truly heartbroken when she died. Was so use to MTM always in her 30's. Loved the apartment tour!

I too looked forward to every Saturday evening to see “Mary”. I would love to see The Jefferson’s uptown apartment and perhaps the Bunker’s house from the old neighborhood next door. What fun!

I absolutely loved this!! You are not alone in Mary being such an inspiration. The series took me from age 12 to age 19 and I fell in love with her character and apartment instantly! I decided that I wanted to be just like her and ended up putting myself through 4 years of nursing school with student loans and hard work. I had a series of 4 apartments and was single until the age of 36. I used all of the colors she had at the time in my first couple of apartments with brown, orange, yellow and olive green. I loved my life, my career and my independence and when I finally got married, I was truly ready! 😊

I know this doesn't qualify with your quality of work, but I have always wondered what the Flintstones House and the Jetsons Apartment really looked like. I would daydream about living in the Jetsons fabulous apartment. Would you ever consider doing that just for fun??

Thank you 4 this video! I love the outside of this house, the I loved the inside, her car, her clothes, her hair, her life. But most of all, I wanted a friend like Ronda!

As I always say, Great Job. The detail is amazing , even down to the show's font.

❤️❤️❤️this!! Thank you for this. One of my all time favorite shows and characters!

Fantastic work. Thank you. I will be visiting Minneapolis for the first time this summer and of course I will be driving by Mary's old apartment. I too have had an M on my wall since my first name is Mark. This may sound weird but I love that TV house interiors don't match the house exteriors. It kinda like they're from an alternate universe that has a different set of physical laws than ours universe. This is probably why I love your channel so much.

Yes, the changing of the seasons showed through Mary's window. And that built in bookcase rocked!

One of my favorite examples of attention to detail is the addition of the skyscraper IDS Tower that shows up in the window. The building was not built until 1972. In the first couple of seasons, you can see the tallest building in the city until, the IDS Center was completed, called the Foshay Tower. Who would have guessed that set designers would care about a tiny detail like that!

LOVE! This tour was so fantastic. Without a doubt, Mary's apartment is my absolute favorite of all TV settings. You did a wonderful job touring it. I took a woodworking class in high school and yes, I made an M. It's my initial and as a little girl I always watched the show and loved that M on her wall. I never spotted the R though. Did you notice in the scene of Lou taking too much of the dinner there was a guy sitting behind the dining table at the little table by the window? That actor is Henry Winkler before he became famous as the Fonz.

I loved The Mary Tyler Moore Show when I was a kid. She was a huge inspiration to me. She was a working woman whose life never revolved around a man, her focus was her job and her relationships with her female friends, and I loved that. I always loved her apartment, and was very disappointed when Mary moved into the second apartment. To this day, I have a little wooden "etc." that is displayed on a shelf in my living room. That's my homage to the show, and reminds me to embrace my inner Mary and Rhoda.

Constant conversation of my daughter and her best friend back in the day: Jenny: "I'm Mary and you're Rhoda" Haley "I'm Mary and you're Rhoda", back and forth. We all loved the show. Thanks for your work, so fun!

You did an amazing job. Being a huge MTM Show fan since I was a kid in the 1970s, your interpretation of Mary’s apartment is perfection. The only thing I didn’t see was Mary’s distinctive white luggage set.

I had the privilege of seeing the entire cast at the 2007 SAG awards. A few years later I had a one on one visit with Valerie Harper. Valerie was one of the sweetest people I have ever met. I cherish my autographed photo of her. I also had the privilege of meeting Gavin MacLeod. His daughter was a school teacher in Monterey, CA. I worked at See's Candies in Monterey for 8 years before moving to Los Angeles in 2006. Whenever Gavin was in town, he would come into the shop where I worked. He, too, was a very friendly person. So were his wife and daughter, very down to earth people. Thank you for this clip. May the entire Mary Tyler Moore Show cast all rest in peace.

Wow! This takes me back to high school when I’d never miss an episode! I wanted to BE Mary! I’m curious now, seeing the size of her closet why she didn’t just make that a tiny bedroom…🤔

❤❤❤ lived in Minneapolis for many years and loved driving past Mary's and Rhoda's apartment house. It is a beautiful home. The chain link fence around the house from the 70s in the show doesn't exist now. It is actually a swanky neighborhood. I loved the kitchen and the roll down stain glass window.

I’ve rewatched the series and yes the apartment was like another character in the show! Beautiful. Please do the Partridge Family house.

Hi! I'm so happy your channel was in my "recommendation"...I love it! Watching Rhoda as a young girl inspired me to become a window dresser. As a little girl, my parents would take us kids to see the Christmas display windows in our city's downtown. Back then, there were no malls...but every city had fabulous old department stores with huge windows. The windows displayed everything from fashion to animated Santa Claus, his elves, & a steamer model train. When I saw those amazing displays, I wondered who designed all the detail & beauty? All I knew was that someday I would do that too. So when I saw the character "Rhoda" and heard the job-title "window-dresser"...From that day on, I called myself a window-dresser! Lol! After high school, (college was never an option for me)...I just needed to get myself to a department store & do my thing! And that's exactly what I did! I had no training. I had no experience...Not even a portfolio of pictures. What I had was confidence in my ability to do the work...I just knew it! In the beginning of my career, I sometimes would work for free...Just to get my foot in the door. Once I showed my skill, and my window displays = foot traffic & profit for the stores...Well my reputation was one of " Oh Dee Dee, she's the best!...Hire her immediately!" Eventually, I traveled all over the country designing displays for: department & specialty stores...and later, even airport shops. I even became a "visual display trainer"...(Training on the corporate level) So you see, The Mary Tyler Moore Show is near & dear to my heart. I loved both their apartments...But to this day my home is sooooo inspired but Rhoda's bright, fun & whimsical space...(with just a bit more square footage. Lol!) Sorry for the long comment...but I loved my work for 40+ years...it was a fabulous ride! Thank you so much for posting these 2 apartment who has inspired so many of us gals to dream (&) actually live our dreams. Peace friend. ❤💃 (BTW, As of tonight, I'm a new subscriber to your amazing channel🙂❤)

The apartment from 'That Girl!'

Ah yes! Her apartment was such a dream, I really enjoyed this video! I love the wonderful message of making design about our story. It’s so easy to see things we love and want them in our own life, as it becomes a personal connection. But it’s much more personal to make it about our story- something I want to try more going forward :)

Thank you so much for this video! My heart skipped a beat when I saw the title of this episode. Another one I love is your recreation of the Parent Trap house. You've brought me hours of joy. Thank you so much!❤

I just wanted to say that I really love the 4th wall and bathroom you created for Rhoda's apartment. I particularly love the niche over the bathroom door. I've seen a lot of old homes with those. Rhoda often joked about how tiny her apartment was so it was definitely a small space.

11:35, I saw the hat!

This will always be what I imagine when I think of a perfect apartment for a bachelor(ette). Big enough to entertain, but cozy enough to not be overwhelmed. And those windows!

I'm a guy and I watch the show every Saturday. For me, it was an event. Mary was definitely a role model for many, including me. While I didn't want to be her (I'm a guy) she did make me want to be a better person. Our lives sort of paralleled each other. I had just moved out on my own and rented my first apartment. Her best friend lived in her building. My best friend lived in my building I didn't have many funds, so I had to decorate my apartment on a shoestring budget. I went with style over expensive. All of my friends just loved my apartment and what I did with it, just like Marys'. In fact, my best friend dropped in unannounced and he brought along his sister. It was the first time she had seen my apartment. She asked me if I had hired a professional decorator! Anyway, Mary and the show did have a positive influence on my life and it did make (with some effort) make me a better person.

I love this! The Mary Tyler Moore show is such a motivating show you really feel like you can take on anything!! I would love to see you create Villa Bramasole in Under the Tuscan Sun.. the house has so much character!

Marina! I have a new appreciation for this much beloved sit-com. I really did not fully appreciate how the set design contributed so much to the show. Thanks for your videos. When will you analyze Seinfeld's apartment?

I grew up with this show and adored it, but there is so much I never noticed! Yes, I have an "M" that my dad gave me for Christmas back then. He was a fan of the show, as well. Mary and Rhoda forever ✨❤️✨❤️✨

And I really enjoyed Rhoda and her shows … and she was so bold and strong… when things got tough she never gave up! And I enjoyed ❤ her apartment as well I don’t think I got enough of it! Thank you so much for this!🌹😎

Always loved that apartment, but Rhoda was always my favorite character! I love quirky! I would love to see ‘That 70s Show ‘ homes. Both the Foreman’s and Pinciatti’s. I grew up in that era and love that 70s vibe! Love, love your channel!

Another great job, i also wondered how cold Rhoda apartment was especially since they were in Minnesota 🥶 how about the farm house from Green Acres? I know it was part of the plot but it always bugged me they never fixed up the house. It would be cool if you showed it as it was on the show then how it could've been if they fixed it up.

Thank you for the video! If you ever get the inkling I would love to see South Fork. I know it would be a challenge, but I've always loved that home, and the show lol. Again thank you!

This is fantastic and the one thing I always liked about Mary’s apartment was the kitchen❤ And yes she was a role model of a decent lady, that’s independent and enjoying her journey…🌹😎 A WONDERFUL Memory lane❤

I always wondered about the establishing shot showing Mary's apartment on the 3rd floor but Rhoda always goes up to hers. Was there 4 floors from the back? Not as bad a Full House having Uncle Jesse( who's last name changes from Cockran to Kotsopolis after season 1). He moves to an attic that never existed( per establishing shot) after marriage. If the extra floor was there. Joey & Jesse wouldn't have initially needed to live in the stair alcove ,& basement, respectively. Rhoda ' apartment had attoc walls with no insulation....in Minneapolis?

You really brought it to life. I love Mary, and Rhoda. Thanks.

What a treat to see Rhoda's Apartment. I have always loved her place with the vibrant colors. It is so her and she's one of my all time favorite TV characters of all time. Valarie Harper made and created her, I can't see anyone else playing that role. Thank you for this. The bookcase in Mary's living area has such a charm. I think that is what made me fall in love with that apartment. Sometimes I like to watch the show just to see this apartment. In many ways I was sad when she moved to the new apartment, but I do understand that it was about Mary Richards moving forward in her life.

Oh Joy. Thank you one of my fave shows. Love your videos!!

I always picture Mary's bathroom as round -- the lower part of the turret (consistent with when they recast the house in Season 3). Great work!!

I wanted to live there too when I was little. I loved her apartment so much. I love this video! Thank you!

Made my day to see all these happy memories.

These videos may be the most calming thing I've ever seen. 😌

One thing that always amused me about Rhoda's apartment is that she has an "etc" as opposed to Mary's M. That said so much about the difference between the two!

I watched Mary Tyler Moore when it was a new show on TV, and several times on reruns, and in all that time I never noticed her small letter R! Thanks so much for creating this tour for us.

ooooo this was just fab, marina! i have lived in two attics and always super-loved rhoda's small space... (and tim's on "my favorite martian" ~the artwork!).... thanks for bringing us here with such dedication, craftsmanship, imagination and warmth xoxo

Marvelous! I too loved this apartment (who didn’t) and longed for something similar. This was the best! Thanks so much.

MTM show was 1970 to 1977. I was 13 thru 20 at 1977. Before Mary, there was That Girl (1966 -1971) Marlo Thomas. A daring concept of women's liberation. Unfortunately not too many could get up and go. Due to strict upbringing especially in spanish family. I'm Puerto Rican. I was the only sibling of 4 , to follow tradition. From parent's house to husband's house. 22 years later, I got my first apartment (studio) at 42 years old. And yes I felt like Ann Marie (That Girl) and Mary Richard. It was wonderful. Greetings from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

Thanks for giving some love to Rhoda’s apartment! And the door/windows to the balcony and built-in bookshelf under the step-down in Mary’s apartment was iconic! The house I lived in as a girl had a sunken living room, so seeing the step-down in Mary’s apartment was so relatable. Never noticed the “R” for “Richards” on the wall or knew all the trivia you shared. Thanks for another fascinating video!!

thanks marina - you're gonna make it after all! :) another job well done on a classic favorite of (i suppose millions of) people - i know that guys liked her apartment and independence as much as girls but it being focused on her was practically unheard of in 1970 - except for THAT GIRL, there simply wasn't any depiction of a single modern woman on tv - i never missed it myself and then i stayed tuned for BOB NEWHART as well - anyway - thanks! :)

Wonderful! Really makes me feel nostalgic.

I've always LOVED Mary's apartment, thank you for doing such a wonderful job bringing it to life. I would love to see you do the wonderful beach house in Grace and Frankie. I love that house (and Frankie's studio) so much!

Will be watching both shows with a different perspective!!

Loved this episode of Mary Tyler Moore Show! 😊

I love this. This show inspired me so much as a teen. I use to watch this show as a rerun as a teen in the 90s. I was def inspired. I think subconsciously I became a little bit Rhoda and a little bit Mary as an adult. I had a very unique apartment in my early to mid 30s that I called my Mary Tyler Moore apartment. It had a loft and I painted one wall bright orange. This was a joy to see! One of my favorite episodes was when Rhoda redecorated Lou’s apt. To this day I think it was amazing design. It was very modern but also retro. I’m the episode Lou hated it which was of course hilarious.

My mom loved this show it’s part of the reason she became a successful physician because of the success and determination thst women of all backgrounds can be more than what they give themselves credit for especially in the working world 🙏🏿

Such fantastic, meaningful effort you put in to this!!! Thank you for creating this!!! Mary's home is my DREAM home!

I love this. You talking about how inspired by Mary and her lifestyle and also Rhoda, it was so evocative. It seems there were many watching this growing up and enjoying it. Then there are those that it had a more profound and deeper imprint on them. I love your work because I connect and go back and remember a side of me that was taking shape in my own personal spirit. I then have aha moments, knowing these details you bring to life are visceral and I'm amazed at how that energy still comes through with how I live at 60, what's come before and now. I just made the connection right now to the fact I write and own the local paper (very small and independent) but it wasn't a career path I chose, it was a dream come to life late and it's not perfect but it's ticking off the life list and showing me the shades of influence from tv shows and the like. Just a box in the corner of a lounge to be entertained? Yep, and also this little portal too it seems. Love it.

You did an amazing job with these 2 apartments. I love your channel.

Love love love the idea that style is personal and not imposed. Of course! It’s a set of preferences, maybe. Cheers, thanks.

My favorite TV show! I could picture each episode’s plot in the stills you showed. So we’ll done and such a pleasing voice. Thanks!

Thank you for this tour. One of my favorite shows and I, like all young girls, wished we had a Mary apartment.

I absolutely LOVE Rhoda's place.

This was fantastic! I always loved that step down with the bookcase built in and the stained-glass drop-down window in Mary's apartment. When I was really young, I wanted her place for when I was older and single and then the Walton's for when I was married with a family......and then we could vacation in a rustic house like on Little House on the Prairie. That was my dream.

This just showed up as a suggestion for me to watch and I am so glad it did! What a fun walk through Mary and Rhoda's apartments :) I too watched the shows and borrowed style from both when I was out and on my own. I used to play You're going to make it after all in my head when I first moved out ... thank you for the wonderful video! Two wonderful ladies who brought so much of themselves to the roles.

Another great tour! I remember these apartments so well. I also remember Rhoda was the reason I ever heard of window dressers. I would later go on to be a visual merchandiser for almost two decades and design quite a few windows along the way. All that color and props in Rhoda’s apartment absolutely enthralled me!

Incredible! I love this video! Thank you.

I loved Mary and her apartment. Loved your vision

I really enjoyed this!! I recently re-watched every episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show. Loved it! And, Mary's and Rhoda's apartments were awesome!! ❣️❣️

Lol the veal prince Orlof was probably the funniest episode. Just knowing how Mary felt to have to tell her boss he took too much. Mortifying!

Good job, Marina. This brings back so many memories. I'm an architecture nut and I remember as a kid it used to drive me bananas that there was obviously not room for many of the rooms and things in TV homes and apartments. Thank you for pointing out when something is not physically possible. But, it's TV and we enjoy it anyway, I appreciate your doing this hard work so we can see what we thought about a lot and bringing these great old shows back to us in 3-D.