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...first glance at the new television season suggests that the mewing pussycat trademark of Mary Tyler Moore's M.T.M. Enterprises Inc. could turn out to be the tiger of TV situation comedy. M.T.M. is responsible for three of the five new sitcoms on the tube: Rhoda, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers and The Texas Wheelers. All three seem to have the potential to join Moore's own show (and The Odd Couple, when it is at its erratic best) as the tube's few regular offerings showing something like recognizable human behavior...
...Moore line, of course, is RHODA (CBS, Monday, 9:30 p.m. E.D.T.), featuring M.T.M.'s best buddy all these years in that small Minneapolis apartment house. Valerie Harper's character is now taking up a life of her own in a show of her own in her native New York City. Naturally, since her last name is Morgenstern, Rhoda has a Jewish mother (Nancy Walker) who is a classic yenta. "So how come you're not wearing a bra?" she says to her returning daughter. "Ma, I'm 33 years old." "All the more reason," comes...
...people out of bland Brady Bunch suburban housing and show them working at jobs that are odd and interesting. Having Moore herself work in a local TV newsroom was a stroke of genius, since the setting provides endless possibilities for novel situations; similarly, it is a relief that Rhoda's new boy friend is not an ad man or an architect, but in the wrecking and salvage business. As for Sand, he lives in a jumbled old walk-up and occupies himself as, of all things, a string-bass player with the Boston Symphony...
...streets." "No, she wouldn't do too well there either," she replies thoughtfully. Sand, who starred in the superb Story Theater a few seasons back, is a quirky blend of shy preoccupation and blurting enthusiasm, quick starts and sudden hesitations. If his première show lacked Rhoda's slickness and deteriorated into formula writing on occasion, it nevertheless introduced a character capable of both surprise and maybe even growth-not qualities that are automatically associated with the central figures of most television sitcoms...
...Rhoda H. Karpatkin, 44. The consumer movement has flowered only during the past decade, but Consumers Union has been advising buyers for 37 years. For 16 of those years Rhoda Karpatkin, a Yale law graduate, served...