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Out of town visitor Doug Booth stops by the WJM newsroom looking for Murray, who is out of the office at the time, and introduces himself to Mary. Doug charms Mary into accepting a date with him, but she is stunned moments later when Murray returns and she learns Doug is his father. After several dates with Doug they become the butt of numerous May-December romance jokes and Mary blows her top and tells everyone off at a party. Returning to her own apartment, she learns the effort has been in vain as Doug has just made up with a former girlfriend in Europe and plans to return to her.

After Lou loses his temper with Ted, Mary’s advocacy of non-violence backfires when Ted takes advantage of Lou’s new disposition and becomes more insufferable than ever.

Jerry Van Dyke guest stars as one of Mary’s ex-boyfriends, who gets a job in the newsroom with a desk right across the room from Mary and tries to turn the old romance on again.

Murray Slaughter’s teenage daughter needs a job, and Lou Grant wants Mary to hire someone to make coffee and help out with typing and filing, so Mary thinks the problem is solved – but she’s wrong.

When the staff is trapped in the newsroom, Sue Ann decides that it’s time for a little Christmas cheer—no matter that it’s only November.

Mary’s Aunt Flo, a driven, well-known newswoman, and Lou Grant have constantly challenged each other’s journalistic abilities, though things seem to soften between them long enough for Lou to make a marriage proposal.

Mary produces a documentary, “What’s Your Sexual I.Q.?”, and is suddenly considered an authority on the subject by her friends, fellow workers and anonymous telephone callers. Phyllis pleads with Mary to tell her 12-year-old daughter, Bess, the facts of life, and Mary acquiesces. After running a survey among her friends to discover how they first learned about sex, and how they told their children, Mary tackles the subject with Bess.

Ted gets swept up in the spirit of Murray’s 20th wedding anniversary party and chooses the most public place possible to pop the question to Georgette.