The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 2 - Eps 5: A Girl's Best Mother Is Not Her Friend
When Ida, Rhoda's mother, visits, she sees how well Phyllis and Bess get on, and how closely Mary appears to her mother when they chat on the telephone, that she tries to be Rhoda's ""friend"".
About The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Title: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
First Air Date: 1970-09-19
Last Air Date: 1977-03-19
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.514/10 (from 71 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 8
Total Episodes: 168
Network: CBS
Genres: Comedy
Production Companies: MTM Enterprises
Synopsis
30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with Phyllis who rents her a room, and meets her upstairs neighbor and new best friend Rhoda. Mary unexpectedly lands a job as associate producer at the TV station WJM, where she works alongside her bristly boss, Lou; the comical newswriter, Murray; and the newscast's often-incompetent anchor, Ted.
Cast

Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Richards

Ed Asner
Lou Grant

Gavin MacLeod
Murray Slaughter

Ted Knight
Ted Baxter