Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

Right.

Speaking of sandbaggers, I just want to mention the most recent World of Telly on Mary Hartman.

Mary Hartman came out yesterday as we record this.

It was great.

I've only ever known about Mary Hartman.

Mary Hartman mostly through John Williams of World of Telly.

I know that you two probably...

maybe even saw episodes no i never saw

And you're listening to World of Telly, the podcast where John and I watch every single TV programme ever made in no particular order.

And what are we watching this time, John? We're watching Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

So John, in our journey through the history of television so far, I think it's fair to say that we've covered our fair share of very odd programs.

Yes.

8-1.

Gangsters Season 2, incredibly strange.

But I think today's programme, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, takes the biscuit.

What do you think? It's,

I didn't find him that bad.

But he was on All My Children, Law and Order, Kojak, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman a couple of times.

He generally played police officers on Mary Hartman.

That's a show I absolutely love.

Mary Hartman.

Mary Hartman.

Mary Hartman.

I've never seen that show.

Yeah, I know what it is.

Okay, what is it? Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

No, good guess, good guess, good guess.

I'm glad you gave it a shot.

So it was supposed to just be a one season replacement for another show.

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

And so they just had to fill for some reason.

I don't know what happened to that show that season.

It was a, a, a...

It was a spinoff from Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, which was the soap opera.

Forgot that was the name of it, yeah.

A-and they played the TV show.

This cinematic debut opened the floodgates for a prolific film career characterized by memorable supporting characters in numerous comedies and character-driven features.

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

Before his late-night talk show fame, Mull achieved widespread recognition in a major breakout television role playing the villainous, swaggering Garth Gimble on the groundbreaking satirical soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

As the abusive, image-obsessed husband of Loretta Haggard's cousin, Mull brought a terrifyingly hilarious narcissism to the role, cementing his talent for playing smug antagonists.

The character met a famously absurd end when he was impaled by an aluminum Christmas tree, a television moment that instantly became part of pop culture lore.

Okay.

Uh, he was in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

He was in Maude-

Was he really? Wow

Before the sitcoms and the movies, Martin Mull was a musician with a live comedy act in the seventies and eight comedy records.

Norman Lear plucked him from the stage for Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, which led to Fernwood Tonight with his comedy soulmate, Fred Willard.

The two of them were such a pair that whenever someone hired one, they'd ask, "Can you get the other?" And underneath all of it, the thing Martin cared more than anything was about painting.

He studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design, and he painted every single day of his life.

Well, the, the Norman one was, was interesting because, and we, we get into this in the movie, Norman was at the height of his power when they made Fernwood Tonight.

And so for him to pluck Martin out of, uh, from the stage and say...

There is a show, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, that we don't really cover in the movie, in the movie 'cause his character was an abusive husband and, and that show is so surreal.

You, you would have to take 20 minutes-