Rhoda (1974)
Rhoda (1974)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This TV Show Is About.
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
Pamela Malouf
Assistant Editor
David Groh
Joe Gerard
Ron Silver
Gary Levy
David Davis
Writer / Producer
Ray Buktenica
Benny Goodwin
Norman Barasch
Writer
Carroll Moore
Writer
Grant Tinker
Producer
Tony Mordente
Director
Asaad Kelada
Director
Alan Rafkin
Director
Jay Sandrich
Director
Alan Myerson
Director
Joan Darling
Director
Harvey Miller
Director
Jerry Belson
Director
Geoffrey Neigher
Writer
Don Reo
Writer
Allan Katz
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
Mike Henry
Man
David Ogden Stiers
George
Tim Matheson
Michael Stearns
Joseph Mell
Uncle Sid
Stuart Margolin
Dr. Arthur Alborn
Michael Delano
Johnny Venture
Martin Kove
Gary
J.R. Miller
Little Boy
Eileen Heckart
Aunt Lillian Fiedler
Anne Jackson
Bea
Erica Yohn
Woman In Bank
Ray Ballard
Mr. Maloney
Joanna Kerns
René Auberjonois
Cloris Leachman
Judd Hirsch
Rafael Campos
Barbara Rhoades
Rosanna DeSoto
James Burrows
Director
Frank Campanella
Ruth Gordon
Lee Delano
Joe Mays
Charles Siebert
Charles Thomas Murphy
Arthur Space
Helene Winston
Maidie Norman
Anthony Charnota
Sharon Spelman
Howard George
Michael Alldredge
Robert Walden
Denise Nicholas
Joan Van Ark
Valerie Curtin
Caren Kaye
Scoey Mitchell
David White
Georgia Engel
Richard Masur
Dave Shelley
Norman Burton
Carol Arthur
Joe Warfield
Rosalyn Borden
Burt Mustin
Joseph Sirola
Charles Lane
Howard Hesseman
Granville Van Dusen
Dick O'Neill
Vivian Vance
Sid Melton
Will Mackenzie
Larry Gelman
Robert Costanzo
Don Chastain
Mary Tyler Moore
Carmen Filpi
Jerry Stiller
Philip Sterling
Peggy Pope
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 9, 1974
StatusEnded
Seasons5
Episodes110
Running Time30m
Content RatingTV-G
Genres
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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 The Mary Tyler Moore Show writer 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.