I remember when this show premiered like it was yesterday. My mom was really interested in watching it, but I thought it looked just looked like a dumb soap opera (this was before I began my two decade long obsession with Guiding Light). I watched a handful of the episodes, and I didn't like it at all. It was too weird for me. But I'm curious to watch it again, as I'll probably have a different take on it since I'm no longer, you know, 10 years old.
Vol. 1 of the series - a 3 disc set - will be released by Sony on March 27. This set will be 25 episodes, which sounds like a lot until you realize that over its two seasons, the show had 325 episodes. Yikes, I had no idea it had that many shows.
The show starred Louise Lasser as Mary, along with Greg Mullavey, Mary Kay Place, Dody Goodman, Debralee Scott, Philip Bruns, Claudia Lamb, and Dabney Coleman.
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1-16-2007 @ 3:34PM
yatesy said...
It had so many episodes because it ran in syndication every nite, 5 nites a week. It was in syndication because none of the networks would run it, the topics were that far out there for 70's tv (even for a Norman Lear show).
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1-16-2007 @ 5:13PM
TheMatt said...
The real question is whether this will FINALLY get "Fernwood 2Nite" on DVD? MH2 was great and all, but Barth Gimble and Jerry Hubbard will always rule the Fernwood universe.
"We put the U before BS."
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1-16-2007 @ 6:21PM
Toby OB said...
This is a tv dream I never thought would come true, just out of the sheer volume of material. Of course, if it doesn't sell, more volumes may be sidelined, like what happened with "Barney Miller" and "Murphy Brown" and other shows.
I've always wanted to see how the "Forever Fernwood" sequel wrapped up, as the NYC affiliate yanked it about two weeks before the official end of the series. (And replaced it with repeats of "Hogan's Heroes"!)
That series - for NYC viewers - ended with a villain about to plunge a hypodermic into Penny Majors' neck. Now that's an unresolved cliff-hanger that has to rank up there with Jessica Tate in front of the firing squad on "Soap"!
"MH,MH" was a real addiction for me during college. I'm curious as to how it will be received today.....
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1-16-2007 @ 8:17PM
cybele said...
Anybody else remember the surreal spoof of MH, MH on the Carol Burnett show?
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8-07-2007 @ 11:25PM
almon said...
I loved "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" as a teen back in iowa from that night of it's premiere! Now the real question is will sony give us ALL 325 episodes??!!
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