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“Who can turn the world on with a smile?” It’s time to throw your hat in the air -- the fifth season of Mary Tyler Moore is out on DVD! For fans of the show, it’s been a long road between season four and this one... and now it looks like the final brilliant seasons are finally going to be released. Mary Tyler Moore stars as Mary Richards who moves into a producer position of WJM TV news. With crusty boss Lou Grant (Ed Asner), bombastic host Ted (Ted Knight) and acerbic head writer Murray (Gavin MacLeod), not to mention salacious cooking show host Sue Ann Nivens (Betty White), Mary’s preposterous friend Phyllis (Cloris Leachman) and Ted’s daffy girlfriend Georgette (Georgia Engel) -- it’s a dream cast, and the writing in this season is peerless. The first episode with Mary spending the night in jail for refusing to reveal a news source is a particular riot -- with her deadpan funny cellmate Sherry the prostitute (played by the late great Barbara Colby). It just doesn’t get better than this!

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