March 19, 1977 –
It was the end of the road at WJM-TV when the final episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Last Show, aired on CBS TV on this date.
In an interview years later Mary Tyler Moore said that the scene where they embraced and then huddled to the tissues was not in the script, because of the emotion of the final episode the embrace was real and so were the tears. Moore also said when she did the famous ‘light off before leaving‘ scene, they could only do it once as studio lights took forever to come back on.
The Haus of Dcaligari 