The ‘Super Emmys’ flopped 50 years ago. But that shouldn’t minimize this historic ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show’ win
LA TimesIn “Inside the Episode,” writers and directors reflect on the making of their Emmy-winning episodes. For that year’s Primetime Emmy Awards, the TV Academy introduced “Super Emmy” categories. Ironically, some of the biggest opponents of the “Super Emmys” were also its winners, such as actor of the year recipient Alan Alda and actress of the year recipient Mary Tyler Moore. “It was so stupid … it took all the magic away,” says writer Treva Silverman, whose script for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” “beat” Joanna Lee’s for “The Waltons” to anoint her writer of the year. Titled “The Lou and Edie Story,” the Season 4 episode centers on Ed Asner’s lovable curmudgeon Lou Grant, whose wife leaves him midlife to start her own journey, a subject, he divulges in the episode, that they talked about in couples therapy.
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