The Mary Tyler Moore Show · SEASON 2
A Girl's Best Mother Is Not Her Friend
Episode 5 · 1971-10-16

- Comedy
Episode overview
When Ida, Rhoda's mother, visits, she sees how well Phyllis and Bess get on, and how closely Mary appears to her mother when they chat on the telephone, that she tries to be Rhoda's ""friend"".
25 minutes
Season 2 episodes
1. The Bird and ...Um ...Bess1971-09-18
2. I Am Curious Cooper1971-09-25
3. He's No Heavy . . . He's My Brother1971-10-02
4. Room 2231971-10-09
5. A Girl's Best Mother Is Not Her Friend1971-10-16
6. Cover Boy1971-10-23
7. Didn't You Used to Be . . . Wait . . . Don't Tell Me1971-10-30
8. Thoroughly Unmilitant Mary1971-11-06
9. And Now, Sitting in for Ted Baxter1971-11-13
10. Don't Break the Chain1971-11-20
11. The Six-and-a-Half-Year Itch1971-11-27
12. . . . Is a Friend in Need1971-12-04
13. The Square-Shaped Room1971-12-11
14. Ted Over Heels1971-12-18
15. The Five-Minute Dress1972-01-01
16. Feeb1972-01-08
17. The Slaughter Affair1972-01-15
18. Baby Sit-Com1972-01-22
19. More Than Neighbors1972-01-29
20. The Care and Feeding of Parents1972-02-05
21. Where There's Smoke, There's Rhoda1972-02-12
22. You Certainly Are a Big Boy1972-02-19
23. Some of My Best Friends Are Rhoda1972-02-26
24. His Two Right Arms1972-03-04