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Ted Baxter’s successful brother, Hal, arrives in Minneapolis and drops by the station for a surprise visit. The brothers have always been very competitive, so Ted, wanting to impress Hal, introduces Mary Richards as his girlfriend. The game of one-upmanship is renewed with vigor when Mary and Rhoda double date the two brothers.

Mary spends every night for a week at a singles bar, researching material for a special news show, and gets an eyebrow-lifting view of the swinging-singles scene.

A Congresswoman with whom Mary worked on a news show accepts Mary’s very casual invitation to dinner and suggests that it be the next evening.

When her sister comes to town, Sue Ann confesses to Mary that the two have always been very competitive, and Lila usually ends up with what Sue Ann wants. When Lila gets a job on a competing station as their homemaker star, Sue Ann takes to her sickbed, believing that the WJM staff has turned against her. Mary forces the others to visit the stricken star in her bizarre, sexually oriented bedroom to convince her to return to her job. Sue Ann is soon out of bed and off to station WJM.

When the star of station WJM’s variety show suddenly quits, Ted Baxter convinces the station manager that he and Georgette can do the show as a team. To everyone’s astonishment, they become a hit. However, Georgette soon tires of the grind and wants to return to being a housewife. Ted resists, but finally gives in when he sees how much it means to Georgette.

Mary’s favorite couple, both long-time friends, are splitting up, and it looks as if Mary is going to be the other woman in a love triangle. When Jack Foster asks Mary to go out to dinner with him after his separation, Mary thinks he just wants a friend to talk with, but soon discovers he wants to be much more than friends.

Murray wants to tell Mary his deepest, most intimate secret, which has been bottled up inside him for years, but he can’t find the words to say he’s in love with her. Almost exploding with anxiety, Murray tells his secret to Lou. Instead of lending a sympathetic ear, Lou takes a protective, fatherly stand about the possibility of Mary becoming involved with a married man. Preoccupied with her own problems – two pushy and nosey neighbors – Mary is completely oblivious to Murray’s feelings.

Ted quits his job at WJM to pursue a political career after Phyllis convinces him that he’d make an ideal city councilman.