The Mary Tyler Moore Show

...in Kansas City, Kan. Asner graduated from Wyandotte High School in 1948. Asner, who became widely known for his role as Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," played right tackle on Ellis' football team in the late 1940s. When Asner was...

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...takes on 'Ballroom With a Twist' Two characters are indelibly associated with Cloris Leachman - Phyllis, the nosy landlord on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Frau Blucher, a servant who at the mention of her name sets horses a-whinnying...

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...to everyone who ever ventured to outer space, including the chimps. He's a cross between Beauty and the Beast's lame-brained Gaston and The Mary Tyler Moore Show's smarmy Ted Baxter. He's eager to get back to Earth for the Kids' Choice...

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...were called into a meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday, where they watched a video montage of finales -- the last "M*A*S*H" episode, the last "Mary Tyler Moore" episode, and so on. Once it was clear that the final "Oprah Winfrey Show" was on the...

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...on Rhoda, Lou Grant and Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. In the US he was best known for writing the Chuckles Bites the Dust episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The episode - once voted the greatest in TV history - involved a children's...

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...for some of the most popular television sitcoms of the 1970s, '80s and '90s - including the memorable Chuckles the Clown episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," which was revered by comedy connoisseurs for wringing belly laughs from a...

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...graduate who started his career writing jokes for The Jack Paar Show, Lloyd went on to write for a number of exceptional sitcoms, including The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Cheers, Taxi, and Frasier. Lloyd was perhaps...

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LOS ANGELES - David Lloyd, an Emmy Award-winning television comedy writer who wrote the classic "Chuckles Bites the Dust" episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," has died. He was 75. Lloyd died of prostate cancer Tuesday at his home in...

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...out that Lloyd famously won one of those Emmys for writing "Chuckles Bites The Dust," an episode many consider the funniest episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show. " He was Emmy-nominated nine times for writing: He was nominated four...

In this article: David Lloyd, Cheers, and Frasier

...Lear factory - "Phyllis," "Rhoda," "The Bob Newhart Show," "Lou Grant," "Taxi," "Cheers," "Frasier" and more. But it was his work on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" - and that one Chuckles episode in particular - that will be his fitting...

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