All language subtitles for Mary Tyler Moore s03e01 The Good Time News

Who can turn the world on with her
smile?

Who can take a nothing day and suddenly
make it all seem worthwhile?

Well, it's you, girl, and you should
know it.

With each glance and every little
movement you show it. This is all I

need to waste it. You can never tell,
why don't you take it?

You're gonna make it after all.

You're gonna make it after all.

playing miniature golf.

Then off to a penny arcade.

Then he takes me to this Yugoslavian
restaurant and insists that I guess what

the goat is stuffed with.

Unfortunately, I was right.

He sounds like a winner.

Rhoda, where do you come up with him?
When you're hot, you're hot.

Hudson, if you've been gone all that
time, how come I didn't get more work

It's only 8 .30, kid.

Well, then how did you get that much
done?

We started out at 3 o 'clock this
afternoon.

manager. Mr. Grant and I have a lot to
get ready. Oh, boy, I hate those

meetings. You never used to. Yeah, well,
it used to be I felt like I'd be

myself. Now I feel I represent women
everywhere.

Oh, Mary, that's all in your head. Oh,
yeah?

What would you say if the station
manager kept trotting in groups of

saying, this is our woman executive?

to dress up.

Want to know the reason why?

I'll tell you why.

The only reason you dress up for a
meeting is if you're insecure.

Yeah, I don't think it makes any
difference what you wear to the meeting.

Neither do I.

I think I'll change.

Why are you so concerned about what he's
going to wear?

Well, when you're Ted Baxter, you've got
to hope that your clothes look

intelligent.

associate producer before me. Better.
Oh, much better. He was terrible.

Yeah.

Well, then, how come he was making $50 a
week more than I do? Well, how do you

know he was?

The last associate producer before me
made $50 a week more than I do. Oh,

because he was a man.

Let me get this straight. The only
reason he was paid more than I am is

he was a man?

Oh, sure. It has nothing to do with you.

shouldn't be making the same... He had a
family to support. You don't.

Now, why don't you come back when you
have an answer?

busy. Oh, we're not. We're not. Come on
in, Ted.

Oh, it's not important. I was just
deciding what to wear for the meeting.

all. Well, I was a little worried about
what you'd wear, too, Ted.

You were?

Oh, absolutely.

Well, let's see.

Well,

what you're wearing looks good to me.

Well, I thought so, too, at first, but
now I think it's neither fish or nuts.

You know what I mean?

Now, before we get started, there's a
question I'd like to ask Ted. Yes, Jack.

Ted, why are you wearing sneakers?

Oh.

Oh.

Well, the reason for that is that I...
Look, Jack, I've got a lot to do, and

like to make this session a quickie,
unless, of course, your compliments take

time. Lou, we've got major trouble.

We have to make our news more informal.

Mr. Sun is not smiling today.

I wish it were that simple, Lou.

I'm talking about a whole new format
here.

Our news has to be more entertaining.

Now I know what you mean.

Get a group of guys together to do funny
feature stories.

Have them kid around with each other a
lot. Have them laugh a lot. That's

That's rotten.

That's one opinion.

Let's hear from someone else.

I'd like to hear your opinion on this.
It'll be the same as mine.

Is it, Mary?

No.

Well, it isn't.

Go ahead.

Well, I just don't think that there's
anything wrong with trying to make the

news more in an entertainingly way.

Exactly.

We're talking about news.

isn't to make people laugh.

It's to let them know what's happening.

I can live with ratings.

When I was an editor, I used to live
with circulation numbers.

But when the circulation went down, we
didn't put the comics on the front page.

News is truth, Jack.

And I'm not going to make it into
something fake.

Why not?

is fake.

Anyway, I think the idea Mary brought up
is an interesting one, and I agree with

it. So I think we'd better start working
on that new format.

Oh,

I'm sorry, Ted. We haven't heard from
Ted yet.

My show was on the air.

Pat, turn on the set.

Look, Mr. Grant, I just wanted to say
that I'm not mad anymore, and I hope

you're not either. You don't have any...

I seem to have lost my place.

Pat, turn off the set.

Is that the format you're so anxious to
hang on to?

Okay, okay.

You're mad at me because I disagreed
with you in the meeting.

No, I'm mad at you because you sold me
out for 50 bucks a week.

Mr. Grant, if you really believe...
that, then we have nothing to talk

Then we have nothing.

Yes, like Channel 6.

Pat, turn on Channel 6.

Give it a chance. It might work.

Oh, more on that killer typhoon later.

Well, winter man Terry Williams can
never get his galoshes unbuckled.

And now, with a special report on belly
dancing in the Twin Cities, roving

reporter Jess Hawkins, who is now
inserting a zircon in his...

we had to go that far.

That's one of the highest -rated news
shows in town.

I am sure that Mr.

Stoneham... Oh, listen here, Mary.

If Jack Stoneham thought it meant
ratings, he'd have us wear funny hats

drink out of dribble glasses.

Read this.

To Lou Grant from Jack Stoneham, some
thoughts regarding our new format.

that our news team likes and enjoys each
other away from work. Skip down, skip

down. This spirit can be achieved.

Skip, skip, skip.

Lou, I can understand. Skip, skip, skip.

So I suggest that... That's it.

Suggest that you delegate most of the
responsibility to someone who thinks

I do, Mary Rigg.

I'd like to help you, Mary.

But I just don't know how to make it
appear that anybody likes... and enjoys

Baxter.

Mr. Graham, I've been thinking about
that. I mean, most of these news teams

two anchormen. So really, all we have to
find is somebody warm and endearing

enough to balance Ted.

I don't think Bobby Fischer wants to do
television.

You want me to do that? No. Why should
you get all the...

sandwich could well climb into several
millions of dollars.

A senorita visits Minneapolis.

That story right...

Less. That's it.

Two anchorman, eh?

Well, if you think you're going to have
two anchorman on this show, then you can

get yourself another boy to take over
right now.

Twenty seconds.

Okay.

Gordy. Yeah, Luke? Ten seconds.

I wonder if you'd do me a favor. Sure.

Ted just quit.

Huh?

I wonder if you'd mind finishing the
show tonight.

Oh, not at all.

Okay, he was just about to start the
Lopez story. Okay.

This is Gordon Howard filling in for the
vacationing Ted Baxter.

Senorita Elena Lopez, daughter of Mayor
Enrique Lopez of Minneapolis' sister

city, Santiago, Chile, arrived in a...
Thank you.

to see what terrific thing happened to
you that did not happen to me. So will

you please tell me? Okay.

You know the place in the news where
they say, and now, speaking for the

management of WJM TV.

Yeah, that's when I take out the
garbage.

Well, guess who is speaking for the
management tonight?

You're kidding. Yeah, how come?

Well, our new format begins tonight,
see, and the general manager always

doing the editorials himself anyway,
and, well, he's been under a lot of

pressure to use women on the air.

Mary, it's just incredible, kid.

Yeah. Aren't you nervous?

No, no. I guess I've been so busy with
the new format, I just haven't had time

to be nervous.

Yeah, how is that anyway?

Is it going to bomb?

He's not trying to do anything
entertaining.

You know, he's not trying to be funny.
He's not trying to have any personality.

Sounds great so far.

Yeah, but we are getting all of that
from Gordy.

It was my idea.

I mean, he is just terrific.

He's relaxed.

He's funny. He's entertaining. And so,
well, the whole net result is really not

awful.

Great. But how did you ever convince Ted
to be a straight man? Oh, well, see, he

doesn't know that that's what he is. I
mean, all week long.

During rehearsals, we've been
complimenting him on his new jacket, and

seems to satisfy him.

Big night.

Yes. Looks good.

Right. Good luck. Thanks.

Ed, it takes a big man to do what you're
doing. Well, I always... Just exactly

what you're referring to, it takes a big
man to do.

Well, I've been watching rehearsals all
week, and I think it's great the way

you've been letting Gordy get around
with you.

realize that being a straight man is a
thankless job, and I thank you for it.

Straight man?

Ted, did I tell you how great you look
in your new jacket?

That won't work anymore, Mary.

Thanks. Ted, I'm sure that Mr. Stone...
As I was just saying to Ted... Ted, I'm

sure what you meant by straight man... I
think you're going to be the hottest

thing to happen to news in this town.

Good luck. Thank you.

We'll see about that. Ted, please, no.

out of my way, Mayor. I've got
personality, too.

Ted, you don't.

Think you're pretty good, eh, Gordo?

Well, we'll see who's the funny guy
around here.

We're on the air, Ted.

I know that.

Well, we're off to a great start.

Lou, have you got two glasses?

Oh, I got one glass, Murray, but don't
worry.

I don't think I'll be using a glass
tonight.

Today in Washington, the president,
while addressing a convention of Polish

-American businessmen, announced his
long -awaited economic reform policy.

Say, that reminds me, I heard a great
new Polish joke today.

You see, this Polish guy came home to
his Polish wife.

The massive freeway tie -up occurred
when a man, dressed in a bunny suit, on

way home from an all -night costume
party, got out of his car to change

Hey, I wonder if a cop came along and
made him hop a straight line.

I don't think that's funny.

Another development in Washington today.
The president signed into law... Hey,

wait a minute, wait a minute. That's a
president's story. That's mine.

I think I'm supposed to do that, Gertie.

What's the difference, Ted? I've already
started it. But then it's a president's

story. I was here first, and I always
get the president's story.

Scotch.

Scotch.

I wonder

what Mary wanted.

Probably wanted to see how we liked her
new format.

That's our look at the newest resident
of the Como Park.

hand of this bulletin.

The managers of the OJM TV extended
sincere apologies to Polish Americans in

hopes they will overlook a remark made
earlier in this newscast.

What remark?

We'll be back with further apologies
following this brief...

of WJM -TV, Mary Richards.

And I'm sure after you see her, you'll
understand why I say Mary. I don't know

what it is you're for or against, but
whatever it is, I'm with you. Thank you,

Gordy.

We'd like to speak out tonight for
population control.

Between the years 1932 and 1978, the
population of the world will have

That should do something for our
ratings, eh, Mayor?

at this rate, world population will
reach 7 billion by the year 2000.

Hey, I think I'm going to the diaper
business.

Which points to a disaster of global
importance.

Oh, come on, Mary, don't be such a
gloomy gus.

The management of WJM feels that
television can play a critical role in

control of population growth. Well, sure
it can, as long as they're watching the

old tube.

They can't make the...

tell you to shut up on the air?

why you should be making $50 a week less
than the person who had that job

before.

So, I'm raising you $25 a week.

Well,

Mr. Grant, I'm not sure you fully
understand the principle involved here.

The whole $50, huh? Right.

Okay, I'll try and get you $50 a week
more.

to someone who told me to shut up on the
air.