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Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman debuted on January 6, 1976 and immediately became the top rated show at the 340 Club. It was a satirical look at soap operas that actually, other than its 11:30 p.m. time slot, wasn’t very different from the standard daytime fare. It became a ritual, perhaps keeping me (and Phil) out of the bars, every night before retiring we would gather in the living room and watch this trendy, cultish Norman Lear vehicle. Here is a summary of episode #1:

Mary is watching TV in the kitchen. Her sister, Cathy Shumway, enters the house. Cathy and Mary talk about yellow build up, and debate if the floor has any on it. Loretta Haggers enters. She says that the Lombardi family was murdered along with their two goats and eight chickens, and soon they debate what the name of the street is that they live on. A reporter from the Fernwood local newspaper enters the house. He asks them some questions about the Lombardis. Meanwhile, at the workplace, Tom Hartman and Charlie Haggers are eating. They turn on the radio and hear about the Lombardi murder. Charlie quickly turns it off because he's eating and does not want to hear about the murder of people. George Shumway, father of Mary and Cathy, enters. They talk about the Lombardis. The father of the family had worked at the plant but only for a short time. Charlie talks about Lombardi's radio, and how good his wife Loretta would sound on it. Meanwhile, at the Hartman residence, the phone rings. Mary picks it up. It's the police station. They have caught the Fernwood Flasher...it's Grandpa Larkin! Mary, in a daze, walks out of the house to pick Grandpa Larkin up.

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