The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV Series) Ted Baxter's Famous Broadcasters' School (1975) User Reviews

Hey, let's put on a show!

[Rrrobert · 10/10 · 11 December 2019]

The series has really hit its stride and firmly established its characters by this point. This episode is a well crafted expertly done farce where Ted, Lou, Mary, Murray get to hit their comedy specialties.

Leonard Frey is fantastic as a deadpan nerd clear in his ambition to become a sports announcer. It even has Bernie Kopell in it.

Very memorable and one of the funniest episodes.

Another Gem

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 23 February 2017]

This show was on such a roll by this time. In this one, Ted is taken in by a con man who says he is creating a broadcast school, where Ted's name will appear. Of course, the night the course is to start, the guy takes off with the money. Ted is devastate and talks the gang into being the faculty. When they arrive at a huge hotel ballroom, there is only one guy there. The staff sits there like they've eaten lemons and snarl as this kid asks all kinds of questions. He refuses to take his money back and insists on continuing in the class. A priceless show.

One of the funniest episodes - from a great series

[UNOhwen · 10 May 2013]

The Mary Tyler Moore show is one of the best written, acted television series.

I've watched 'Mare' since I was a little boy - and, when it was shown in late-night repeats(here in NYC), i couldn't go to sleep until i'd seen 'Mare' and the gang.

The plot is that a huckster cons Ted into opening a 'school. The con then runs off with the money, and leaves Ted in a jam, and, the only way out is to try and get the gang to help him.

This episode's always stuck in my mind, for the brilliant scene at the end, at the hotel ballroom, where Mary, Lou, Ted, Georgette (And Tony Kramer - Mary's date) go to tell the students they'll reimburse their monies.

However, when they arrive - late - their's only ONE student (played wonderfully by the under-rated Leonard Frey) - and he doesn't want his money back - he wants to become… a sports announcer.

This scene - no matter how many times i've seen this episode (and that's a lot) always manages to make me laugh (hard) with the brilliant one-liners from the Mary & Lou, and the dead-pan delivery of Leonard Frey and the rest.

Time does not diminish the humor, and talent of this ensemble cast's work, and this episode is just one of many - too many to count - that gives them a tour de force chance to shine for us.