NipPierce Wow, this is a REALLY bad movie!

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

tlack I remember watching this at about 1AM in the morning, and thinking; "what a strange television show"...and being hooked! I had to see what craziness was going to be uttered next! Because we've all ran into these kinds of people before!It was almost as though it was being improvised compared to most other more highly polished television shows of the day. It's one of those shows where the director tells the actors; "if you make a mistake, just keep going". But the actors had to know what everyone else was going to say, or else they would have been perpetually laughing. The out-takes must be truly hilarious! No disrespect to the writers, Gail Parent and Ann Marcus, who I think provided some of the most creatively quirky writing on television ever. Probably one of the first television shows to profusely use non sequiturs (Latin : it does not follow) as the main comedic ingredient. What a team they made! Great work!And if you look at the all the characters on the show; it's made up of many seasoned and many upcoming actors who all seemingly wound-up having fruitful careers in television.cbestca from san diego sums it up the essence of the show quite nicely when they wrote: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman is a great American tragicomedy, 28 March 2000 "Mary Hartman is one of the great emblems of the distress of the mid-20th century American woman. Her hair in childish pigtails while wearing those little girl dresses, Mary was an example of the overly-consumered, growth-stunted American housewife trying to function while in a semi-daze..."--- A semi-daze is precisely correct. But it's the whole town (and perhaps the whole world) that's in the same perpetual semi-daze. An example of this is when the Reverend Standfast succumbs to Tom Hartmans harassment and turns to the crowd outside the Chinese laundry hostage standoff and asks; "does anyone have a Valium"? And everyone in the crowd offers him one!--- cbestca continues... "Her confrontations with adultery, contemporary feminism, and countless other social issues (often found within her own family) while trying to be the perfect little housewife and mother makes her eventual nervous breakdown more than just another crazy plot twist. In actuality, it was an inevitable progression."--- Precisely. Over-stimulated and over-whelmed by over-information, not knowing what is real or true. Just as the album art of Mary Hartman depicts saying; "Do my floors have a waxy yellow buildup"? ...we may never know the answer to that, but it's surely to be interrupted and superseded ASAP by someones gossip concerning something of more or less importance... or is it?

Steyr808 Well perhaps not the worst show ever, the Star Wars Christmas special was pretty bad. But at least most people agree that the SW special was god awful. And I'm not 100% certain it was actually worse.I never understood what people saw in it when it aired, I don't get it now.Louise is not funny, she seems to actually have serious problems. This is a notion that would be vindicated when she hosted Saturday Night Live where she was also, not surprisingly,...not funny.Supposedly this is a powerful feminist show. I'm not sure how portraying a person who is this messed up as some kind of icon to be aspired to advances the cause of feminism. I think the Mary Tyler Moore Show and it's spin off Rhoda are certainly more effective in that role. But the show did seem to appeal to people who also had serious personal problems. Maybe that explains it.

Frank Hankey I was totally hooked on this show back in the 70s. Way out there, really dry. There are times when they'd set up a joke for several episodes running then spring the punchline on you. They tried to clone this into that show SOAP, but they added a laugh track that had the effect of killing the humor (at least for me). They really went out on a limb. That episode where Dabney Coleman stares silently into the camera for five minutes may be the most I've ever laughed at a TV show ("Look me in the eye and decide if Merle Jeter should be the next mayor of Fernwood"). I'm amazed that someone let them get away with this show.For a while the Lifetime channel brought this back. I wasn't sure if it would be as hilarious a second time around but it was. After a few weeks Lifetime pulled it for Unsolved Mysteries. TVLand made a better attempt a few years ago. It went on longer and they got Martin Mull and Fred Willard to emcee. Great stuff !! Once again it didn't go on too long. I don't know what useless stuff is in its place. If anyone hears of this one getting replayed or made available on DVD, send me an email !

Joseph Harder Truly one of the greatest-and least remembered -TV shows of all time.I loved this show back in the seventies. It was a rich tapestry of comic-and touching- characters, exemplified by the naive heroine, Mary Hartman,and her friends, perhaps most unforgettable of whom was would be Country Music queen,Loretta Haggers, played by the sadly underused -and brilliant-Mary Kay Place.But then this show was rich in fine acting-Dabney Coleman, martin Mull, and Marian Mercer, among others.If the Comedy channel can rerun "soap" why cant they rerun this masterpiece?