Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

1976

soap opera, LGBT-related television series, sitcom

Creator

Norman Lear

Network

Syndication

Seasons

2

Episodes

325

Premiered

1976-01-05

In this soap opera parody, suburban housewife Mary Hartman seeks the kind of domestic perfection promised by Reader's Digest and TV commercials. Instead she finds herself suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune—mass murders, low-flying airplanes, and waxy yellow buildup on her kitchen floor.