The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 2 Episode 8 Thoroughly Unmilitant Mary
The writing and technical unions go on strike, leaving only Lou, Mary, and Ted in the newsroom.  WJM-TV makes Lou be second cameraman on ""The Chuckles the Clown Show"".  Because an upset Murray is on strike, Mary has to write the news stories.  They are terrible, and when Lou criticizes them, she starts crying.
Things take a turn for the worse: Ted's union strikes, and Lou has to fill in as anchorman!  On his first brodcast, he has ""clammy hands"", and he bombs.  At a local bar, Murray, Gordy, & Mary share a laugh over this.  After drinking before his 2nd brodcast, he is ""as cool as a cucumber""--that is, until he falls asleep at breaktime.  Herb fills in for Lou for the rest of the brodcast.
The next day, the unions come to an agreement, and everything goes back to normal.  Rhoda Morgenstern & Phyllis Lindstrom do not appear in this episode.
                            Year: 1977
Genre: Comedy
Country: United States of America
Studio: CBS
Director: Allan Burns, James L. Brooks
Cast: Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Gavin MacLeod, Ted Knight
Crew: Lorenzo Music (Producer), Stan Daniels (Producer), Michael Zinberg (Producer), Ed. Weinberger (Producer), James L. Brooks (Executive Producer), Grant Tinker (Producer)
First Air Date: Sep 19, 1970
Last Air date: Mar 19, 1977
Season: 7 Season
Episode: 168 Episode
Runtime: 25 minutes
IMDb: 7.50/10 by 77.00 users
Popularity: 14.4438
Language: English
 
                                Episode
                                
                                                                The Bird and ...Um ...Bess
                                                                I Am Curious Cooper
                                                                He's No Heavy . . . He's My Brother
                                                                Room 223
                                                                A Girl's Best Mother Is Not Her Friend
                                                                Cover Boy
                                                                Didn't You Used to Be . . . Wait . . . Don't Tell Me
                                                                Thoroughly Unmilitant Mary
                                                                And Now, Sitting in for Ted Baxter
                                                                Don't Break the Chain
                                                                The Six-and-a-Half-Year Itch
                                                                . . . Is a Friend in Need
                                                                The Square-Shaped Room
                                                                Ted Over Heels
                                                                The Five-Minute Dress
                                                                Feeb
                                                                The Slaughter Affair
                                                                Baby Sit-Com
                                                                More Than Neighbors
                                                                The Care and Feeding of Parents
                                                                Where There's Smoke, There's Rhoda
                                                                You Certainly Are a Big Boy
                                                                Some of My Best Friends Are Rhoda
                                                                His Two Right Arms
                                                                
                            
                         
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                    