The Handmaid's Tale

Mary Richards says goodbye to a four-year romance and hello to a new career in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Mary Richards and Rhoda Morgenstern are distressed at being 30 and single and decide to do something about it.

Against her will, Mary finds herself the adoptive mother of her next door neighbor's child.

To qualify for group rates for a trip to Paris, Mary and Rhoda join a club for divorced people.

An ex-professional football player seeking a job as a sports announcer decides to attach himself to Mary.

Rhoda's mother pays a visit to Minneapolis, but Rhoda refuses to see her.

Mary becomes romantically involved with an author who is at least a foot shorter than she is.

A heavy snowstorm on election night forces a very nervous Mary Richards to produce her first television news show.

Rhoda finally finds a boyfriend, but when she introduces him he becomes more interested in Mary.

Mary Richards hires her friend Phyllis as her newsroom assistant with disastrous results.

Mary Richards decides that honesty is the best policy when she learns that her income tax return is about to be audited.

A speaking engagement for television newsman Ted Baxter turns into a disastrous experience.

Mary is forced to hold off the romantic advances of a young cameraman at the television station.

Mary's elaborate holiday plans are cancelled when she learns she must work on Christmas Day.

The mother of Mary's date becomes very upset because she believes Mary is engaged to her other son.

Mary sadly prepares to leave her newsroom friends to start on a new job.

Mary finds herself becoming romantically involved with a married man.

Mary loses most of her possessions in two apartment burglaries.

After numerous Broadway rejections, a newsroom friend's play is finally produced by the Twin Cities Playhouse.

Mary goes into the hospital for a minor operation and draws a cantankerous roommate.

Mary's boss Lou and his wife separate and Mary becomes involved when he asks for advice.

An old friend uses a childhood relationship as Mary's campmate to introduce herself into the lives of Mary, Rhoda, and the entire newsroom.

Rhoda falls in love with a successful man who has resigned his lucrative position to study to become a forest ranger.

Lou Grant is fired when the news show ratings drop, and a new manager takes over the television station.