"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" ran for seven seasons in the '70s (can that be a song? -- "Seven Seasons In The Seventies," by the Tumbling Rocks...).
All the seasons are on You Tube right now -- if you want to watch some but not all, select Seasons 1, 2, and 3.
If you had to narrow it down more, then just play Seasons 2 and 3. That is the ultimate Diamond-Goldness of the show, right there.
That was the height of all of the components of a great work of comedy -- all the notes being hit just how we needed them.
I want Season 1 in there, too, because first seasons of shows are where it's finding its legs -- the characters that have been created are being further discovered, etc.
In the first season, there are a few clunky moments because writers, directors, actors -- everybody -- is still finding their way. And there are also these amazing, surprising points where the rubber meets the road -- the lightning goes into the bottle and doesn't get back out -- and the live audience will erupt in laughter and delighted screams of mirth and recognition ("I know someone just like that!").
Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day
And suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well, it's you, girl, and you should know it...
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