70-74 was a magical time

Saturday night's growing up in the 70's.

My personal favorite version of the song. It's hard to watch this one because my mother was a single career woman of the 70s and very much resembled MTM. She passed in 2021 and I still miss her. 😢

What inspired me about this intro was seeing a person clearly enjoying her work, then having the means to go out and shop for little rewards for herself. That’s all any of us wanted (and still do).

That woman standing in the background looking at Mary Tyler Moore when she throws her hat . That was Hazel Frederick.... She got to meet Mary in person many years later at Mall Of America. Hazel just accidentally got in the opening credits that day as she was shopping downtown.

One of thee greatest sitcom intros in the history of television. Such a great show.

Yep,this is the best intro theme 🤗👍

I was just a 5-6 year old kid back in 1973-74, when this show was first broadcasted on television. Yet, I still remember the images and melody of this intro! I was too young to understand the show at that time period. My world was ice cream, popsicles, pop tarts, Mr Roger's, Sesame Street, and Hanna Barbara Saturday morning shows...! I had no idea who President Nixon or John Lennon were! Yet, I remember the images of Mary Tyler Moore in this show's intro just as I remember the images of the Donny Osmond family and Mr. Rogers and the Brady Bunch....!

I was a Vikings fan in the 70s, so I loved seeing Mary rocking a "Tark" jersey while washing her car!

My favorite part at the end where Mary hugs the characters Lou, Murray, and Ted. And Ted Baxter thinking more of his hat than a hug, Lol. Perfect synopsis of the Baxter character. Ted Knight's smile, oh so dazzling. 😀

I love the shot of Mary and Rhoda walking along the street. I think this was Rhoda’s last regular appearance in the show before her own show. Of course, her last appearance was in the finale, and I loved that, too.

Love it!! Memories of my childhood watching & singing along!

Freeze-framed the shot of Mary and Valerie walking past the Minneapolis drug store at 0:35. Apparently, a box of Pampers sold for $1.44 in 1973!

Love this song!

The interesting thing for me is we just coming out of the Civil Rights struggle and in the midst of the “Black Power” movement and yet as a 7 year old this intro and show let me dream and strive for a better life. I’m sure I’m one of many thankful for that...

This is the version I remember the most as a kid. Very mellotron heavy, different from the other seasons

Beautiful is all I can say.

Happy days they were for me.

Such a beautiful woman, and easily my favourite theme song for a television show. The shots and editing in the intro are so lively and well connected.

Love the shopping scene w/Rhoda.

Such an awesome song. Listen to it again and again.

I didn't get to see MTM Show when it originally aired in the 70s since I was born in 1982, but I remember watching this legendary how with many others as reruns in the 80s and 90s.

She totally represented the middle class America. One job, decent housing, decent car, groceries in those days were attainable for almost everyone. How did we get from that to the America of today. Overworked middle class, barely making to the end of the month. Those were the golden years, and I doubt they're coming back. Lucky are the ones who lived through that... And yes, the best sitcom song opening or at least the top three. We miss you MTM, and those days.

RIP Chloris Leachman

I think is the best arrangement of theme. I wish the record release version was more like this.

Great opening. Toward the end when she hugs Lou, Murray and Ted - I believe that was a Christmas episode.

I love watching this TV show growing up and the song 🎵

The best year for the theme song

The clip where Mary annoyedly tosses a pack of meat in the shopping cart, clearly exasperated by inflation's long reach at that time, still makes me laugh! When I'm at the supermarket and I see the price of bacon now, I can't help not think of that scene. Funny!

Rumor has it the woman in the background with the brown coat black handbag and head scarf was was really the Queen of England.

‘The past is another country, they do things differently there’ L P Hartley

My favorite ❤

This always picks me up. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I love that yellow Ford Mustang at the 35 second mark

this was always me fave intro, cuz [besides the most TOE-TAPPIN' version of the song] the 2 best friends are downtown together, & i always wanted one o' those plaid 2-pc outfits!🚶🏻‍♀️

Awesome

R.I.P. Gavin MacLeod :(

My fave version of the opening theme for MTM.

0:31 Every since I was a kid, the little spin did something for me. ☺️

Theme song written and performed by Sonny Curtis of The Crickets.

gosh I miss real instruments.

Quality tv. Unlike today!

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I like theme. I've got It with the singing removed. You can hear so many instruments that get covered up with the singing. Can even hear a piano.

Hmm. at :38 the camera man swings left to right, in other opening scenes they show him right to left.

I never knew that was Rhoda in the video

Does anyone remember's the name of the women's bags store where she stops to look at the window?

Brilliant childhood memories of watching MTM, and then Rhoda. Rhoda was the best though, absolutely! No question, life was much simpler and much better then - who really needs digital this and digital that? Somehow we managed without them. People were more honest, and actually had integrity back then; now the world is awash with shallowness, selfishness, and me-me-me. I'm saying the world was a better place then....except of course for the oppression, prejudice, and inequality that was all around; not anymore though - but is that really true, or is it just that today's higher level of sophistication, fake news, and media manipulation makes it easier to obscure the fact that these issues have never gone away, in fact they've multiplied out of all proportion if you look closely enough. If you don't mind though, in the meantime I'll just drift off for a while and dream of arranging to accidently bump into Rhoda before Joe gets his chance!

79th ..damm I was 13 in 73 .........Times does FLY .....................................63 this yr

I have 8 sistas, for real, so i used to watch it all the time, hey.

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I came here for her take on inflation at the grocery store.

I guess it had to happen sooner or later that tv would run out of new ideas and theme songs!! Most if not all of the new stuff is crap, even the commercials!!!!!

Go Harris 2024

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