Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted

Fun look back at one of the classic TV sitcoms. Readers should be aware that Armstrong devotes a lot of pages to MTM's female writers. While this allows her to explore how a group of smart, funny women made inroads to what had previously been a male-dominated world, it leaves less room for stories about the actual show we all remember so fondly. There are discussions about a few seminal episodes, most notably “Chuckles Bites the Dust,” but I would have liked more of a focus on the show and the stars, and a little less on the writers, producers and directors.