Rhoda (1974)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Valerie Harper
Rhoda Morgenstern
Julie Kavner
Brenda Morgenstern
Wil Albert
Gus
Lorenzo Music
Carlton the Doorman (voice) / Producer / Writer
James L. Brooks
Creator / Producer / Writer
Allan Burns
Creator / Writer / Producer
David Groh
Joe Gerard
Pamela Malouf
Assistant Editor
Ron Silver
Gary Levy
Norman Barasch
Writer
Ray Buktenica
Benny Goodwin
Carroll Moore
Writer
David Davis
Writer / Producer
Grant Tinker
Producer
Tony Mordente
Director
Asaad Kelada
Director
Jay Sandrich
Director
Alan Rafkin
Director
Alan Myerson
Director
Harvey Miller
Director
Jerry Belson
Director
Joan Darling
Director
Geoffrey Neigher
Writer
Allan Katz
Writer
Don Reo
Writer
David Lloyd
Writer
Gail Parent
Writer
Burt Prelutsky
Writer
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
Writer
Nancy Walker
Ida Morgenstern / Director
Kenneth McMillan
Jack Doyle
Tom Atkins
Vic Rhodes
Tim Matheson
Michael Stearns
Martin Kove
Gary
J.R. Miller
Little Boy
Jon Lormer
Richard Romanus
Barry Brown
Denise Nicholas
Wendy Schaal
Allen Garfield
Robert Moore
Director
Joseph Mell
Joe Warfield
Rosalyn Borden
Burt Mustin
Peter Hobbs
K Callan
John Crawford
Queenie Smith
Elizabeth MacRae
Nedra Volz
Joseph Sirola
Charles Lane
Howard Hesseman
Granville Van Dusen
Charles Siebert
Charles Thomas Murphy
Arthur Space
Helene Winston
Maidie Norman
Anthony Charnota
Sharon Spelman
Howard George
Michael Alldredge
Robert Walden
Liam Dunn
Cara Williams
Paul Lichtman
Florida Friebus
Melanie Mayron
Beverly Sanders
Joseph V. Perry
Lee Delano
Ruth Gordon
Frank Campanella
James Burrows
Director
Rosanna DeSoto
Barbara Rhoades
Jack Gilford
Carol Arthur
Norman Burton
Dave Shelley
Richard Masur
Georgia Engel
David White
Harold Gould
Scoey Mitchell
Joanna Kerns
Mike Henry
Frank Converse
Will Mackenzie
David Landsberg
Anne Jackson
Ed Asner
Stuart Margolin
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 9, 1974
StatusEnded
Seasons5
Episodes110
Running Time30m
Content RatingTV-G
Genres
Wiki.
Rhoda is an American sitcom television series created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns starring Valerie Harper that originally aired on CBS for five seasons from September 9, 1974, to May 18, 1979. It was the first spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show in which Harper reprised her role as Rhoda Morgenstern, a spunky and flamboyantly fashioned young woman seen as unconventional by the standards of her Jewish family from New York City. The series was originally distributed by Viacom Enterprises.Rhoda begins as the character returns to New York where she soon meets and marries Joe Gerard. The series' third season chronicled the characters' separation and Rhoda's later seasons revolved mainly around the character's misadventures as a single divorcée. Main co-stars included Julie Kavner as Rhoda's sister Brenda alongside Nancy Walker as their mother Ida Morgenstern. Other co-stars throughout the series included Lorenzo Music as Rhoda and Brenda's scarcely seen doorman Carlton, Harold Gould as their father Martin Morgenstern, Ron Silver as their neighbor Gary Levy, Ray Buktenica as Brenda's boyfriend and later fiancé Benny Goodwin, and Kenneth McMillan as Rhoda's boss Jack Doyle.
A large ratings success during its first two seasons, Rhoda's viewership suffered following the creative decision to dissolve the marriage of Rhoda and Joe as series creators Brooks and Burns believed that the title character had lost her "edge" as a married woman. The series' later seasons failed to recapture the commercial success it had initially enjoyed and CBS ultimately cancelled Rhoda midway through its fifth season in 1978, leaving several unaired episodes that later appeared in syndication. Rhoda was the recipient of two Golden Globe Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards, and was filmed Friday evenings in front of a live studio audience at CBS Studio Center, Stage 14 in Studio City, Los Angeles, California.