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Mary and Rhoda are thrilled with the opportunity to produce a new show for WJM, until they learn that the show must star Ted and Sue Ann, who quickly make things difficult.

Rhoda Morgenstern’s green thumb and her incredible ability to restore all her friends’ dying plants back to life convince her that she should get out of the fashion window and into the house-plant scene. Mary helps back Rhoda’s new venture with money she was saving for a new car. It looks like a good investment because Rhoda’s business flourishes; but Rhoda is so busy she forgets to repay the loan for a while, putting a strain on her friendship with Mary.

Mary Richards receives – of all things – a “chain-letter” from – of all people – her boss, Lou Grant, and doesn’t know how to avoid passing it along. When Mary learns everyone else in the newsroom has been similarly victimized by the boss, she systematically goes through her address book for the names of 20 people she can pester. One of them is Armond Lynton, who pesters her until she agrees to date him. Before they leave the apartment, Rhoda shows up followed by Roy Martoni, a cookware salesman, who has also received one of the letters.

Mary writes a humorous obituary as a joke, but when it’s mistakenly read on the air, she’s suspended from the newsroom.

Mary Richards makes her acting debut in a little theater play written by her newsroom cohort, Murray. Excited and proud of Murray’s talent, Mary invites the gang from the office to her apartment for a premiere party while they wait to find out how the local critics review the play.

Mary meets an old boyfriend in a crowded elevator as he’s taking his new fiancée to get a marriage license. This unexpectedly sets off a chain of events which puts Mary in the role of the “other woman.” Dan Whitefield, professor of television journalism at the university, insists Mary come to the engagement party he and his fiancée are giving – which brings out some qualities in his would-be bride he never dreamed existed.

Everyone keeps waiting for the other shoe to drop when Sue Ann Nivens plays the “good sport” while a sweet young thing with a terrific figure and no television experience manages to take over her show.

Newswoman Mary Richards accepts a date with the governor’s executive adviser, whom she had met while covering a local community affairs meeting. The demands of his job force him to cancel the date at the last minute, however, and each successive date – a total of four – winds up in the same manner – him bowing out for business reasons just before he is to pick her up. When the governor goes out of town, it seems that the two will finally get together, but again, at the last minute, the governor calls requesting his aid to represent him at a local meeting. Mary slowly begins to realize that perhaps political life is a lot less glamorous than she first thought.