 and in the dramatic film "Ordinary People".After "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", her subsequent ventures into series television on the variety shows "Mary" (1978) and "The Mary Tyler Moore Hour" (1979) had been short-running ratings disasters, and Moore decided to return to the sitcom format which had brought her the greatest television success; the sitcom nonetheless met the same fate as the variety shows.In "Mary", Moore plays Mary Brenner, a 40-ish divorcée working at a second rate tabloid, the "Chicago Eagle".