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#1 - Episode 210
S2:E801/21/1977
Charlie is helpless to stop Tom from drinking. Garth tells Pat he wants her dead and doesn't care that he'll fry for it. Mary visits the bandaged accident victim and finds Martha working as a hospital "Gray Lady". Loretta promises Mac she's stringing Lou along but Lou gets angry when a diner patron points out that Loretta doesn't want him. While Loretta and Mac are making out in Mac's truck, a drunken Tom arrives at the diner and passes out. Lou puts an unconscious Tom in Loretta's bed. Pat gives Garth a taste of his own medicine, and it's fatal.
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8.8/10(24 votes)
#2 - Episode 046
S1:E463/8/1976
Mary plays hostess to a funeral and eulogizes the late Leroy Fedders. Tom and Mary make plans for the hypothetical. Tom has a surprise for Mae.
Director:Jim Drake
Writer:Peggy Goldman
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Director:Jim Drake
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8.7/10(21 votes)
#3 - Episode 112
S1:E1126/8/1976
Tom agrees to some moral support. Mary practices some perfect discipline, but gets no good reasons from Dennis. Loretta's blessed recording session has one visitor too many.
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8.7/10(15 votes)
#4 - Episode 315
S2:E1856/17/1977
The Shumways' finances are on the line as Svetlana takes down Mac in the ring. Cathy's back pain becomes excruciating. Mary tells Tom that her dream is the life she has with him and Heather in Fernwood. After Mary insinuates she won't leave, a deliveryman arrives with a one way ticket to Niagara Falls from Dennis. As the high school reunion gets underway, Mary gives an impassioned speech about accepting life instead of following silly dreams, but later, Tom discovers that Mary has vanished from their party.
Director:Jim Drake
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8.6/10(22 votes)
#5 - Episode 075
S1:E754/16/1976
It's Loretta's big day on the Dinah show and all goes great until she commits a shocking blooper.
Director:Jim Drake
Writer:Peggy Goldman
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Director:Jim Drake
Writer:Peggy Goldman
8.6/10(17 votes)
#6 - Episode 129
S1:E1297/1/1976
Merle gets ready for Loretta's visit. Mary has a dream of what might have been and makes her live television debut.
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8.6/10(16 votes)
#7 - Episode 182
S2:E5212/14/1976
Pat introduces Mary to Garth Phillip Gimble, Jr., who doesn't like to be called "Little Garth". During Merle's election night party, Garth threatens Pat, but she swears she'll expose him as a wife beater if he lays a hand on her. Mary's new dress embarrasses Tom at the party. Tom refuses Cathy's request to help Martha with her mortgage payment. Merle fires Garth for not supporting his two minutes of silence trick on TV. Mary worries when Tom reveals he invested a large sum of money in lake property.
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8.6/10(15 votes)
#8 - Episode 323
S2:E1936/29/1977
Obsessed with the idea of Mary making love, a drunken, despondent Tom is moved to suicide. Martha puts her Gray Lady training to good use. Dr. Fermin makes an astonishing discovery that eliminates the kidney donor, but realizes that as Garth's twin brother, Barth would be a match. Hotshot producer Seymour Blumberg convinces Barth to donate his kidney to Cathy as a publicity stunt to jump start his career.
Director:Jim Drake
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8.5/10(19 votes)
#9 - Episode 037
S1:E372/24/1976
Mary makes a discovery about Heather. The Hartmans make a parental decision. Tom and Mary get high for the Lord.
Director:Jim Drake
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8.5/10(19 votes)
#10 - Episode 047
S1:E473/9/1976
Mae's reunion is a big headache for Tom and it's all Mary's fault. Loretta and Charlie get some not so friendly news. Loretta makes a spectacular comeback, in more ways than one
Director:Jim Drake
Writer:Peggy Goldman
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8.5/10(18 votes)
#11 - Episode 059
S1:E593/25/1976
Mrs. Haggers meets Mrs. Haggers. Sergeant Foley waits with Mary. Mary is shaking - and it's not from the cold. Charlie and Muriel remember things differently.
Director:Jim Drake
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8.5/10(20 votes)
#12 - Episode 095
S1:E955/14/1976
Grandpa offers some philosophy and gets a lift to the supermarket. Tom's dejection breeds rejection and Dennis' feelings come straight from the heart.
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8.5/10(17 votes)
#13 - Episode 130
S1:E1307/2/1976
Mary finds coping with life as "America's Typical Consumer Housewife" beyond her grasp. An incomparable performance in an unforgettable episode.
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8.5/10(16 votes)
#14 - Episode 188
S2:E5812/22/1976
Detective Johnson's shocking confession about his past prompts Martha to end their courtship. Garth and Pat have yet another fight, this time over his accusation that she doesn't support his career. Mary's suggestion that Tom is spending too much money angers him. Heather and Little Garth's discussion of teen sex is interrupted by a phone call from a man who claims to be George Shumway and says he's coming home.
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8.4/10(20 votes)
#15 - Episode 096
S1:E965/17/1976
Mary's attention while ironing helps save a life. Tom and Cathy look for a fiancee and a wife. Mary is trying to get picked up.
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8.4/10(15 votes)
#16 - Episode 127
S1:E1276/29/1976
Martha vows to squat for fishing rights. Howard says yes to living the truth. Loretta wants to expose herself in Chicago and Charlie says yes.
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8.4/10(17 votes)
#17 - Episode 135
S2:E510/8/1976
Loretta and Merle come face to face for the first time since the shooting. Chester confides to Mary that he hid a nuclear device in the hospital and plans to blast his way out. Charlie hides his condition from Tom. Martha swoons when Cathy reveals George disappeared because of her pregnancy. Watching the 6:30 newscast proves an electrifying experience for the Reverend Jimmy Joe.
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Writer:Ann Marcus
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8.4/10(15 votes)
#18 - Episode 139
S2:E910/14/1976
Dr. Williams confirms Mary's chat with Gore Vidal when Mary requests an overnight pass to go home and clean her kitchen for his visit. Mary wonders if she'll be required to have sex with Dr. Medwick, the sex therapist Dr. Williams recommends for her treatment. Martha reports George's disappearance to Detective Sergeant Johnson, Heather's former bodyguard during the Davey Jessup saga. Dr. Medwick explains to Mary how the bible encourages healthy sex for pleasure.
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8.4/10(14 votes)
#19 - Episode 191
S2:E6112/27/1976
Charlie and Loretta express their passion in the car on the side of a public road. Heather hands over another sex questionnaire that Mary had hidden in a box of Froot Loops, and Mary learns the questionnaire was sent by Mae Olinski. Pat's tenderness toward Garth ends in her being beaten by a plastic snowman. Sikanda, another Boga Zidi cult member, joins George in the Shumway home which they raid. Tom's loan is refused, and Mary shows him a bounced check.
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8.4/10(14 votes)
#20 - Episode 193
S2:E6312/29/1976
Mr. Donally, Tom's boss at the RV dealership, warns Tom that his aggressive approach and low sales have put him danger of being fired. Christine's snobbish father mistreats Cathy during a visit to the Addams house. Tom receives a phone call from Mae Olinski, who says she's coming back to Fernwood next week. Mary and Tom's discussion of the sex survey turns ugly when Mary confesses that she isn't sure she's ever achieved the ultimate pleasure while making love with Tom.
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8.4/10(14 votes)
#21 - Episode 195
S2:E6512/31/1976
In Dayton, Jake stops by Lou's diner where amnesiac Loretta is pegged as a slut. Loretta, calling herself Lulu, is befriended by owner Lou and regular customer Mac Slattery. Wanda tells Mary that she's found a way to achieve ultimate satisfaction and knows she can teach it to any man. Little Garth brings Pat to Mary's kitchen after Garth turns the hose on her, destroys her clothes, and locks her out of the house. Montgomery Monk attempts to restore George back his crabby old self. Mary hosts a disastrous New Year's Eve Party where Annie announces she's leaving Fernwood, and a drunken Tom reveals he's been fired.
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8.4/10(14 votes)
#22 - Episode 213
S2:E831/26/1977
After Tom confesses to Charlie about possibly sleeping with Lulu, Mac reveals to Tom that Lulu turned up about three weeks ago carrying Charlie's photo. Merle gives Mary a toy wind-up chicken, while Heather and Little Garth wonder how to spell contraceptive. Tom goes to Lou's Diner, meets Lulu, and tries to make her remember her life as Loretta. Merle has Mae's town meeting raided, and she's arrested.
Director:Dennis Klein
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8.4/10(14 votes)
#23 - Episode 216
S2:E861/31/1977
Charlie fights Dr. Osgood's plan to have "Loretta's" life support turned off, but it's rendered moot when the bandaged patient dies. Pat meets her new cell mate Cookie LaRue, who is arrested while passing through Fernwood. Mary avoids Tom in preparation for leaving him over his affair with the woman in Lou's Diner. Tom explains to Mary that Loretta is the woman he was embracing, and she has amnesia. Meanwhile Loretta's wedding ceremony to Mac is commencing in Dayton. Just as Charlie begins to accept Loretta's death, Tom tells him that Loretta is alive and getting married in Lou's Diner.
Director:Jim Drake
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8.4/10(13 votes)
#24 - Episode 295
S2:E1655/20/1977
Merle and Wanda's live broadcast of At Home With the Jeeters dissolves into a disaster when Mary phones in to discuss Tom not sleeping with her, and a trapped Miss Adeline attempts to break out of her locked bedroom. Dennis reveals his true intentions for Mary to Tom. Tom drinks more and begs Merle to help him save his marriage. Dennis tells Mary about his talk with Tom, and the two kiss passionately in front of Fred and Fiona.
Director:Jim Drake
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8.4/10(13 votes)
#25 - Episode 303
S2:E1736/1/1977
Dennis deals with Heather like an adult when she admits she wants to date him. Mickey Moe, the younger brother Merle disowned, arrives in Fernwood to make Merle's life even more miserable. Going back to the wilderness with Johnny Doe proves heart wrenching for Loretta. Wanda inadvertently incites Tom's passion.
Director:Jim Drake
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The Best Episodes of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

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#1 - Episode 210

#2 - Episode 046

#3 - Episode 112

#4 - Episode 315

#5 - Episode 075

#6 - Episode 129

The 20 WORST Episodes of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

#7 - Episode 182

#8 - Episode 323

#9 - Episode 037

#10 - Episode 047

#11 - Episode 059

#12 - Episode 095

#13 - Episode 130

#14 - Episode 188

#15 - Episode 096

#16 - Episode 127

#17 - Episode 135

#18 - Episode 139

#19 - Episode 191

#20 - Episode 193

#21 - Episode 195

#22 - Episode 213

#23 - Episode 216

#24 - Episode 295

#25 - Episode 303

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The Best Episodes of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

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