A small-town housewife struggles to cope with the increasingly bizarre and violent events unfolding around her.
Set in fictional Fernwood, Ohio, this deliriously demented serial focused on the beleaguered heroine Mary Hartman, an average American housewife. In the first year, Mary suffered the travails of mass murder, adultery, venereal disease, homosexuality, religious cults, and UFO sightings, before she finally succumbed to a nervous breakdown on a syndicated talk show.
Aired: Jan 5, 1976 Loretta delivers word that a neighborhood family was murdered; Mary and Tom h...
Aired: Jan 6, 1976 Mary brings her grandfather home from the police station; Kathy falls for a b...
Aired: Jan 7, 1976 Young Heather Hartman displays suspicious behavior when asked about the recen...
Aired: Jan 8, 1976 Grampa Larkin appears in court; Tom and Mary's drought in the bedroom continues.
Aired: Jan 9, 1976 Word begins to spread that Heather is a suspect in the murder investigation; ...
Aired: Jan 12, 1976 Mary musters the courage to check out sex books from the library; Grampa Lark...
Aired: Jan 13, 1976 Mary turns to the police after Heather confesses that she saw the killer; Lor...
Aired: Jan 14, 1976 Grampa Larkin's social worker confesses that she's fallen in love with him; M...
Aired: Jan 15, 1976 Immediately after recording her demo, Loretta begins suffering from fainting ...
Aired: Jan 16, 1976 Charlie tries talking sense into Tom, but Tom feels something is missing in h...
Aired: Jan 19, 1976 Tom and Heather both go missing on the same night, and so Mary can only hope ...
Aired: Jan 20, 1976 Loretta considers not going to Nashville since Heather is missing. Mary finds...
Aired: Jan 21, 1976 Cathy brings Steve over to meet her parents. Fanny is too much for Raymond. T...
Aired: Jan 22, 1976 Mary's life is in danger, while the police and reporters surround the store. ...
Aired: Jan 23, 1976 Mary tries to calm the mass murderer with a shoulder massage and a sympatheti...
Aired: Jan 26, 1976 The mass murderer and Mary are still holed up in the Chinese laundry, and the...
Aired: Jan 27, 1976 Sgt. Foley risks rescuing Mary, but to no avail. Tied back-to-back, Foley let...
Aired: Jan 28, 1976 The ordeal is over and everyone is relieved that Mary is safe.
Aired: Jan 29, 1976 Mary deals with the aftermath of her ordeal. Charlie looks after Loretta, whi...
Aired: Jan 30, 1976 Mary declares to Tom that their marriage is over. Tom seeks counsel from Coac...
Aired: Feb 2, 1976 Mary visits Sgt. Foley's apartment. Charlie and Loretta pack for Nashville. H...
Aired: Feb 3, 1976 Mary returns home with one shoe and no groceries. Tom wants to know where she...
Aired: Feb 4, 1976 Loretta and Charlie have car trouble. Tom wants to talk to Mary about their m...
Aired: Feb 5, 1976 Tragedy strikes the Haggers in the form of a station wagon full of nuns. Mary...
Aired: Feb 6, 1976 Mae has bad news for both Tom and Mary. While Loretta recovers in intensive c...
Aired: Feb 9, 1976 After leaving Mae, Tom avoids Mary with claims of having a headache and comin...
Aired: Feb 10, 1976 Martha phones Mary after seeing Tom arrive at the Haggers house with his suit...
Aired: Feb 11, 1976 Dr. Hastings informs Charlie that Loretta's surgery didn't get the results th...
Aired: Feb 12, 1976 Mary gives Tom to Mae, insisting she no longer wants him as her husband. Cath...
Aired: Feb 13, 1976 Cathy begs Mary to get Tom and try to stop George from killing Sal Babbitagli...
Aired: Feb 16, 1976 Tom takes Heather out to avoid Mary's liver dinner, but Mary refuses to go. D...
Aired: Feb 17, 1976 Mary, Dennis, and Roberta discuss STET, Survival Training and Existence Thera...
Aired: Feb 18, 1976 George forbids Cathy to marry Steve. Charlie and Loretta's hope for Loretta's...
Aired: Feb 19, 1976 Mary and Tom reconcile their differences. Dr. Abramson offers to testify on L...
Aired: Feb 20, 1976 Tom reassures Mary that their fighting is a sign they love and care about eac...
Aired: Feb 23, 1976 Luther Moon, Fernwood's garbage man, sifts through the trash and recalls the ...
Aired: Feb 24, 1976 Mary finds a joint on Heather and throws it in the waste basket. Later, Mary ...
Aired: Feb 25, 1976 Dorelda tries to heal Loretta and fails again. George receives an anonymous t...
Aired: Feb 26, 1976 Heather rails against her parents when she realizes Tom and Mary smoked her j...
Aired: Feb 27, 1976 Mary and Tom cater to Mae, who's recovering in their bed from her pill overdo...
Aired: Mar 1, 1976 Mary lends a sympathetic ear to Mae and learns about Mae's ex-husband Mike Ol...
Aired: Mar 2, 1976 When Dennis admits he still wants Mary, she encourages a relationship between...
Aired: Mar 3, 1976 Loretta starts to regain feeling in her feet, while Mae considers leaving Fer...
Aired: Mar 4, 1976 Clete reports the news of Leroy's bizarre death at age 47. Martha can't find ...
Aired: Mar 5, 1976 Joe Sweeney and Sheri place George in a compromising position. Mary and Tom h...
Aired: Mar 8, 1976 Reverend Buryfield conducts Leroy's funeral in Mary's kitchen. Tom doesn't un...
Aired: Mar 9, 1976 Mike and Mae's reunion at the Capri doesn't go as planned, but it's Tom who g...
Aired: Mar 10, 1976 Martha wonders if George's nervousness is a result of someone intimidating hi...
Aired: Mar 11, 1976 Mary tells Tom that it'll be 23 years before their sexual desires are synchro...
Aired: Mar 12, 1976 Dr. Fermin tells Loretta that she's in spontaneous remission. Charlie devises...
Aired: Mar 15, 1976 Now that Mary knows her thing is communication, she has to decide what to do ...
Aired: Mar 16, 1976 Steve reassures Cathy that starlet Kate Walters was just for publicity. Tom h...
Aired: Mar 17, 1976 Cathy tells George and Martha that she and Steve are going to Hollywood to be...
Aired: Mar 18, 1976 Mary, Martha, and Loretta plan Cathy's impromptu bridal shower while she's th...
Aired: Mar 19, 1976 Mary secretly phones Mona but can't talk. After her date with Dennis, Cathy's...
Aired: Mar 22, 1976 Mary is too busy preparing food products without food to care about Cathy's r...
Aired: Mar 23, 1976 Mary spends an interesting evening with Tom and Mona, who get along much bett...
Aired: Mar 24, 1976 Charlie dreams of his two Muriels. Mary encounters Dennis and Cathy in the Sh...
Aired: Mar 25, 1976 Loretta gets to know Muriel, who comes off as sweetness and light. Dennis sto...
Aired: Mar 26, 1976 Mary contrives to leave Tom and Mona alone. Charlie tells Loretta that he can...
Aired: Mar 29, 1976 Tom promises he'll help Mona any way he can with Mary's problem. Mary is unea...
Aired: Mar 30, 1976 Mary instructs Mona to move out of the bed and into the center of the ring wh...
Aired: Mar 31, 1976 Mary and Loretta sneak into Muriel's and look at Muriel's scar while she's na...
Aired: Apr 1, 1976 Mona reveals more truths to Tom. Muriel tells Charlie and Loretta that she ne...
Aired: Apr 2, 1976 Martha and Mary discuss problems with the ozone layer and Cathy running off w...
Aired: Apr 5, 1976 Mary tries to use George and Martha's influence to keep Cathy and Dennis apar...
Aired: Apr 6, 1976 Dennis' deceitful behavior toward Cathy and Roberta enrages Mary. Tom and Cha...
Aired: Apr 7, 1976 Mary reaches out to Tom and discovers that they've drifted too far apart into...
Aired: Apr 8, 1976 Overwhelmed by emotional problems, Mary can't get out of bed and an alarmed T...
Aired: Apr 9, 1976 Dennis stops by Mary's bedroom and promises he won't hurt Cathy, but he can't...
Aired: Apr 12, 1976 Loretta tells Mary about Timmy, but Mary warns her that birth certificates ca...
Aired: Apr 13, 1976 Dennis' space is crowded with hidden guests. Mary takes a rain check on Denni...
Aired: Apr 14, 1976 Charlie and Loretta anticipate their trip to Hollywood tomorrow. Mary refuses...
Aired: Apr 15, 1976 Loretta bristles when the upcoming Los Angeles trip reminds Mary of Charlie a...
Aired: Apr 16, 1976 Loretta appears on the Dinah Shore Show with her song "Baby Boy."
Aired: Apr 19, 1976 Loretta's appearance on Dinah! becomes a media sensation, but not in the way ...
Aired: Apr 20, 1976 Cathy rejects Mary's truths about a loveless marriage with Dennis. Mary worri...
Aired: Apr 21, 1976 Mary urges Tom to report his assault to the police. Dennis suggests to Robert...
Aired: Apr 22, 1976 A dejected Charlie and Loretta return to Fernwood from Los Angeles, but Murie...
Aired: Apr 23, 1976 Arriving home from the plant, Tom worries about a missing Mary's whereabouts....
Aired: Apr 26, 1976 Mary returns home from Dennis's apartment and conceals her whereabouts from a...
Aired: Apr 27, 1976 Cathy blames Mary for Dennis' reluctance to set a wedding date and swears tha...
Aired: Apr 28, 1976 Muriel asks Clyde to not spoil Charlie's big day by revealing the contents of...
Aired: Apr 29, 1976 Roberta seeks advice from Grandpa Larkin about Dennis, but Grandpa is more in...
Aired: Apr 30, 1976 Dennis drops by Mary's kitchen to remind her about next Thursday. Cathy catch...
Aired: May 3, 1976 Loretta dreams of making a phone call to the Lord and decides to volunteer fo...
Aired: May 4, 1976 Martha pays a visit to Dennis' apartment and decides that he's overflowing wi...
Aired: May 5, 1976 At breakfast, Mary contends with Heather's desire for platform shoes and Tom'...
Aired: May 6, 1976 Mary and Cathy bury the hatchet. Tom confides to Charlie about Mary and Denni...
Aired: May 7, 1976 Mary vents her aggression on Cathy's wedding shower cake. Ed reveals shocking...
Aired: May 10, 1976 Tom discovers the identity of the chairman of the watchdog financial committe...
Aired: May 11, 1976 Mary wants to talk with Tom, but not about Dennis, and Tom only wants to talk...
Aired: May 12, 1976 Mary responds with a bicentennial lecture when Tom wants to know if she dream...
Aired: May 13, 1976 Tom seeks answers about his marriage from Martha, but an offhand remark from ...
Aired: May 14, 1976 Tom is disturbed by Mary's new set of men friends. Betty and Grandpa visit Ma...
Aired: May 17, 1976 Mary saves a life with a little help from Barbara Walters. Cathy worries when...
Aired: May 18, 1976 Tom and Cathy discover hard evidence in Dennis's apartment. Martha is appalle...
Aired: May 19, 1976 Tom refuses to understand the relationship between Mary and Dennis. Loretta a...
Aired: May 20, 1976 Cathy visits Dennis, and they agree that they both love Mary. The presence of...
Aired: May 21, 1976 Loretta and the bartender at the Capri Lounge don't have the answer Mary seek...
Aired: May 24, 1976 Dr. Fermin cautions Dennis against another tete a tete with Mary. George advi...
Aired: May 25, 1976 Loretta runs her song "Vitamin L" past Charlie.
Aired: May 26, 1976 Mary seeks absolution, and Loretta thinks she can find it through baptism. Ch...
Aired: May 27, 1976 Charlie isn't happy with God's answer when Merle has Jimmy Joe ask God whethe...
Aired: May 28, 1976 Tom seeks help from Bob Gilroy, but Gilroy decides the Hartmans need a psychi...
Aired: May 31, 1976 The help line lady thinks Mary has a nice phone voice. Betty wonders how Tom ...
Aired: Jun 1, 1976 Mary takes a shot at the help hotline. Clete finds Cathy more than qualified ...
Aired: Jun 2, 1976 Mary brings the help line into her home and finds her first caller a familiar...
Aired: Jun 3, 1976 Mary checks on Dennis' recovery and later gets an obscene phone call on the h...
Aired: Jun 4, 1976 Mary accidentally learns Howard's secret. Cathy visits Father DeMarco to inqu...
Aired: Jun 7, 1976 Martha receives a letter from Adopt O Find. Betty is more overjoyed than she ...
Aired: Jun 8, 1976 Mary, Charlie, Merle, and Jimmy Joe attend Loretta's recording session of "Vi...
Aired: Jun 9, 1976 Martha's good news fails to lift Mary's depression. Mary rejects Dennis's off...
Aired: Jun 10, 1976 Merle offers to make Loretta a soloist in the choir, but she's torn between h...
Aired: Jun 11, 1976 Ed and Howard discuss a marriage without paper. Cathy has a different kind of...
Aired: Jun 14, 1976 Mary and Dennis seem to reach an impasse on the subject of marriage, leading ...
Aired: Jun 15, 1976 Jimmy Joe confesses Merle's sins of the flesh to Loretta. Martha wants to kno...
Aired: Jun 16, 1976 Tom reassures Charlie and George that he's trying to cut back on his drinking...
Aired: Jun 17, 1976 Mary accidentally spills the McCullough secret. Charlie discovers that Lorett...
Aired: Jun 18, 1976 Dennis bids goodbye to life in Fernwood. Clete and Cathy share their news wit...
Aired: Jun 21, 1976 Tom's drunken bender doesn't help him score dates at the Capri Lounge. Betty ...
Aired: Jun 22, 1976 There's chaos in the Hartman kitchen when Hugh Boswell and the Razzle Brother...
Aired: Jun 23, 1976 Mary and Tom make a deal about their marriage, and Tom is quick to break it. ...
Aired: Jun 24, 1976 Betty stuns Tom with news of Howard's imminent conversion and his choice of a...
Aired: Jun 25, 1976 Betty encourages Mary to take Howard to bed. Cathy begins Catholicism instruc...
Aired: Jun 28, 1976 Tom and Howard are both furious with Mary. David Susskind calls the Hartman h...
Aired: Jun 29, 1976 A ruptured sewer line and the noise from heavy equipment takes its toll on Ma...
Aired: Jun 30, 1976 After receiving a call from a drunken Tom, Mary takes Hugh Boswell's advice a...
Aired: Jul 1, 1976 Still in the toy store, Mary gazes into the doll house and imagines a perfect...
Aired: Jul 2, 1976 Loretta realizes the truth about Merle. After Jimmy Joe warns him of Merle's ...
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