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Producer of WJM-TV’s news program in name only, Mary asks Lou for the chance to actually produce the show on her own, and she gets it – along with the last minute problems and decisions that go with the job.

Murray Slaughter becomes depressed when he learns a former writing classmate has won a Pulitzer Prize in journalism while Murray is still writing one-syllable words for Ted Baxter to mispronounce. Mary Richards and Lou Grant try to talk Murray out of his depression, but he seems determined to either quit or get Lou to fire him. Then Ted Baxter pitches in and takes Murray out on one of Ted’s typical “bachelor nights on the town.”

Ted is stricken with a mild heart attack while on the air, and is taken off to the hospital. He soon recovers, but goes through a personality change reflecting his newfound attitude, which is, “It’s great to be alive and I have to enjoy and live every moment.” The WJM gang quickly become fed up with the new Ted, and long for the old days. True to his real nature, Ted quickly slides back into his pre-heart attack obnoxious self within a few weeks.

It isn’t spring, but Mary’s heart couldn’t care what season it is when she falls in love with Joe Warner, who believes in expressing his emotions publicly, a gesture that makes Mary uncomfortable. Feeling this is the real thing, Rhoda and Joe, of the Rhoda series, make special guest-star appearances when Mary calls and tells them about her wonderful guy.

When Randy Wilner does a really rotten job of waiting on her table in a restaurant, Mary Richards complains to the owner, who promptly fires Randy. The following day Randy appears in the television newsroom to apply for a secretary’s job and Mary, feeling guilty about what she had done the night before, hires Randy as her assistant. The girl soon proves to be as incompetent in the newsroom as she was in the restaurant and Mary finds herself doing extra work to cover up for Randy’s mistakes. When editor Lou Grant learns of the situation, he fires Randy. But Mary still feels responsible for the girl and tries to get her a job at another television station.

Since being separated from his wife, Lou has grown accustomed to having dinner every night at Mary’s apartment. Though she doesn’t want to meddle, Mary is determined to try to get them back together – if only for the sake of her own sanity.

The happily-married Murray considers having an affair when he meets an attractive, single woman at one of Mary’s parties.

Georgette confides to Mary her heartbreaking decision that she is going to leave Ted. The new bride concludes her husband doesn’t love her anymore, since Ted has recently been making his bed on their couch.