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Mary Richards can’t understand why her boss, Lou, keeps turning down her dinner invitation – until she has a phone conversation with his wife. After talking to Mrs. Grant and learning that the Grants are separated, Mary inadvertently becomes involved in their domestic affairs because Lou asks for her advice.

Lou’s promotion to program manager leaves Murray in charge of the newsroom, a task which (it is quickly apparent!) he is totally unqualified to handle.

Problems develop when one of Mary Richards’ ex-boyfriends returns to town. Mary discovers the flames of an old love can be difficult to extinguish, and she finds herself getting romantically involved again – against her better judgment. Tom Vernon is the charming but irresponsible man who broke Mary’s heart before and threatens to do it again unless her friends can rally around to save her from herself.

A quiet luncheon Mary hosted just for Ted and Georgette turns into an erratic spontaneous wedding. The newsman has proposed to Georgette numerous times before throughout their courtship, but after she accepted, he took no further steps toward matrimony. This time, when he proposes, it happens to be in Mary’s apartment, with the couple agreeing they should get married at that very instant, making Mary Richards the involuntary hostess of the whole hasty, bizarre but hilarious affair.

Mary Richards returns to her hometown for a high school class reunion and Rhoda Morgenstern goes along in the hope of finding an eligible bachelor among Mary’s ex-classmates. The reunion gets off to a dismal start when Estelle, the class president, needles Mary about being unmarried. The situation is further complicated when Howard Arnell, Mary’s un-favorite ex-boyfriend, arrives on the scene.

When a fire breaks out in Rhoda Morgenstern’s apartment and she loses all her possessions, her friend Mary Richards insists that Rhoda move in with her for a few days. Unfortunately, Mary’s apartment seems to get smaller and the friendship thinner as the days drag by. The difference in Rhoda’s and Mary’s living habits become painfully apparent when Mary can’t sleep because Rhoda’s watching the late movie on television and doesn’t clean up the kitchen after she has used it to cook. Their longtime friendship seems doomed – until Rhoda gets a date with one of the firemen who tried to save her apartment.

The notoriously tight-fisted Ted splurges on expensive gifts for Mary, Lou, and Murray with his income tax refund, only to discover that he is being audited.

Mary Richards meets architect Matt Bryan when he comes to sketch her apartment building. After several dates, the two appear to be on the verge of becoming serious, but Mary notices that Matt avoids discussing the possibility of marriage. She is surprised one day when a young man shows up at her office and introduces himself as Matt Jr. She knows that Matt has been married and divorced and had a son, but she was expecting a nine-year-old boy, not a 24-year-old man. Matt Jr. takes Mary to lunch and tells her not to worry if his father seems ill at ease, because he always does when he becomes serious about a girl. Later, Matt Sr. tells Mary he suspects his son has told her of his fear of a second failure in marriage. Nevertheless, he proposes to her.