TOD: I'm watching a few episodes of "Mary" -- Mary Tyler Moore's variety show from 1978. The pilot was wonderful-- clever skits, new musical numbers that showed off everyone's singing and dancing and Mary Tyler Moore did a great job. Naturally after picking up the pilot, CBS decided that the entire thing needed to be changed and to be more, "with it." so they cut most musical numbers and brought in a good support cast (Swoosie Kurtz, Judy Kahan, Dick Shawn, Michael Hampton, David Letterman, and Michael Keaton. The trouble is they brought in too many people and there wasn't enough tiome to give them enough to do, and there wasn't enough for Mary to do either. What a huge waste of talents.