Episode 012
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman - S1 - E12
Loretta considers not going to Nashville since Heather is missing. Mary finds out the truth about Tom. Loretta gets some good news. Cathy admits she's in love with Steve. Tom tries to finish things with Mae. Mary and Martha have a fight, while Heather returns home with disturbing news.
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman: Season 1 - 62 Episode s
1x1 - Episode 001
January 5, 1976
Loretta delivers word that a neighborhood family was murdered; Mary and Tom have a disagreement about making love; Charlie announces he almost has enough money to get Loretta's record demo made; The Fernwood Flasher is finally captured.
1x2 - Episode 002
January 6, 1976
Mary brings her grandfather home from the police station; Kathy falls for a blue-eyed Armenian bartender; a reporter interviews Loretta about the murders; and Mary feels ashamed when Tom rejects her sexual advances (or lack thereof).
1x3 - Episode 003
January 7, 1976
Mary is interviewed by a reporter; Young Heather Hartman displays suspicious behavior when asked about the recent murders; Grampa Larkin is arrested again.
1x4 - Episode 004
January 8, 1976
Grampa Larkin appears in court; Tom and Mary's drought in the bedroom continues.
1x5 - Episode 005
January 9, 1976
Word begins to spread that Heather knows more about the Lombardi murders than she's telling; Cathy gets fired; Mary receives a threatening phone call about Heather.
1x6 - Episode 006
January 12, 1976
Grampa Larkin visits a psychiatric social worker; Mary gets some sex books; a strange man follows Heather home from school.
1x7 - Episode 007
January 13, 1976
Mary turns to the police after Heather confesses that she saw the killer; Loretta is arrested for picketing; Charlie stumbles on Mary's sex ed books.
1x8 - Episode 008
January 14, 1976
Tom is furious with Mary after finding her sex books; Grampa Larkin's social worker admits that she's in love with him; Heather's story makes the evening news.
1x9 - Episode 009
January 15, 1976
Immediately after recording her demo, Loretta begins suffering from fainting spells; Mary becomes jealous of one of Tom's coworkers; Heather escapes police protection.
1x10 - Episode 010
January 16, 1976
Charlie tries talking sense into Tom, but Tom feels something is missing in his life. Cathy prepares for her date with Chuck. Charlie and Loretta go to the Doctor's office. Raymond goes to see Roberta and meets Fanny. Tom chats up Mae at the bar.
1x11 - Episode 011
January 19, 1976
Tom and Heather both go missing on the same night, and so Mary can only hope that Heather is safe and that Tom was kidnapped by the mass murderer. She'd rather worry about a kidnapping than what she is really worried about.
1x12 - Episode 012
January 20, 1976
Loretta considers not going to Nashville since Heather is missing. Mary finds out the truth about Tom. Loretta gets some good news. Cathy admits she's in love with Steve. Tom tries to finish things with Mae. Mary and Martha have a fight, while Heather returns home with disturbing news.
1x13 - Episode 013
January 21, 1976
Cathy brings Steve over to meet her parents. Fanny is too much for Raymond. The mass murderer is revealed and Heather, Trudy, and Mary's lives are in danger.
1x14 - Episode 014
January 22, 1976
Mary returns home with one shoe and no groceries. Tom wants to know where she's been. Loretta and Charlie are off to Nashville.
1x15 - Episode 015
January 23, 1976
Mary tries to calm the mass murderer, while he continues to ask for demands: a car and ,000.
1x16 - Episode 016
January 26, 1976
The mass murderer will only give up when he gets a stack of bibles and an oath from the Reverend that the police won't follow him for 24 hours.
1x17 - Episode 017
January 27, 1976
Sgt. Foley tries to save Mary, but to no avail. Mae and Tom try to save Mary, themselves.
1x18 - Episode 018
January 28, 1976
The ordeal is over and everyone is relieved that Mary is safe.
1x19 - Episode 019
January 29, 1976
Mary deals with the aftermath of her ordeal. Charlie looks after Loretta, while Mary is furious with Tom.
1x20 - Episode 020
January 30, 1976
Mary feels that her marriage is over. Tom seeks advice from Coach Fedders, while Mary gets sociable with Sgt. Foley.
1x21 - Episode 021
February 2, 1976
Mary visits Sgt. Foley's apartment; Charlie and Loretta pack for Nashville; Heather knows something's up, while Raymond and Roberta go on a date.
1x22 - Episode 022
February 3, 1976
Mary returns home with one shoe and no groceries. Tom wants to know where she's been. Loretta and Charlie are off to Nashville.
1x23 - Episode 023
February 4, 1976
Mary is served with a summons by Sergeant Foley, along with a much more personal invitation. Blanche and Leroy discuss the Hartman's problems. Grandpa has his day in court.
1x24 - Episode 024
February 5, 1976
Tragedy strikes the Haggers in the form of a stationwagon full of nuns. Mary does her best to comfort Charlie. Neither Tom nor Mary can get any sleep.
1x25 - Episode 025
February 6, 1976
Mary is served with a summons by Sergeant Foley, along with a much more personal invitation. Blanche and Leroy discuss the Hartman's problems. Grandpa has his day in court.
1x26 - Episode 026
February 9, 1976
Tom has something to discuss with Mary. Tom moves in with Charlie. Loretta is sinking fast.
1x27 - Episode 027
February 10, 1976
Mary makes a trip to the library. Martha insists that being miserable is the only key to happiness.
1x28 - Episode 028
February 11, 1976
Tom and Mary visit the doctor. Cathy gets a new job. Charlie gets still more bad news.
1x29 - Episode 029
February 12, 1976
Mary says Tom shouldn't go to waste. Cathy's magic fingers make their debut.
1x30 - Episode 030
February 13, 1976
Mary says Tom shouldn't go to waste. Cathy's magic fingers make their debut.
1x31 - Episode 031
February 16, 1976
Tom rescues Heather from a liver dinner. Loretta attempts a valiant stand. Sergeant Foley visits Mary, who threatens to call the police.
1x32 - Episode 032
February 17, 1976
Martha is on the floor. Cathy and Steve try to help. Meet the all new, all now Roberta Walashak.
1x33 - Episode 033
February 18, 1976
George says no to Cathy and Steve, but his words fall on deaf ears. Charlie and Loretta swap exciting news. The Shumway house is a battleground. Tom cooks his way back into Mary's heart.
1x34 - Episode 034
February 19, 1976
Loretta and Charlie wheel their way home. Grandpa helps Roberta, who insults her way into a sale. Tom and Mary learn the wonders of Dorelda Doremus! Then the truth.
1x35 - Episode 035
February 20, 1976
Loretta invites the Hartmans to her healing. Charlie looks for miracles of his own.
1x36 - Episode 036
February 23, 1976
This episode is a review of the events that took place in the first thirty-five episodes.
1x37 - Episode 037
February 24, 1976
Mary makes a discovery about Heather. The Hartmans make a parental decision. Tom and Mary get high for the Lord.
1x38 - Episode 038
February 25, 1976
Dorelda Doremus' ""healing"" falls flat. George faces up to facts and says yes to Cathy and Steve. Tom and Mary reach new highs in bed.
1x39 - Episode 039
February 26, 1976
Tom and Mary owe Heather an explanation. Loretta is still looking up. The Friendly Loan Company drops in on the Haggers. Mae drops – in the Hartmans' house.
1x40 - Episode 040
February 27, 1976
Tragedy makes strange bedfellows. Mae spends the night with Tom and Mary. Steve has something to show Cathy. Martha finds Mae in Tom's bed.
1x41 - Episode 041
March 1, 1976
Mary keeps Mae from suicide, for the sake of her bathroom. Charlie and Loretta get a not so friendly letter. Mary and Mae have a nice woman to husband's former mistress talk.
1x42 - Episode 042
March 2, 1976
Mary finds a match made in heaven, in her own kitchen. Roberta hopes Grandpa can forget. Mary finds new meaning in her life.
1x43 - Episode 043
March 3, 1976
Leroy is worried sick. Mae talks to Tom about Mary. Leroy Fedders gets into his last bowl of chicken soup.
1x44 - Episode 044
March 4, 1976
Mary's chicken soup makes the evening news. The time has come for Steve to gesture goodbye. Mary's guilt gets Leroy a Cadillac.
1x45 - Episode 045
March 5, 1976
George gets a ""visitor"" and then a ""surprise."" The Hartmans get a call from Tom's ex's ex. George returns home in a panic.
1x46 - Episode 046
March 8, 1976
Mary plays hostess to a funeral and eulogizes the late Leroy Fedders. Tom and Mary make plans for the hypothetical. Tom has a surprise for Mae.
1x47 - Episode 047
March 9, 1976
Mae's reunion is a big headache for Tom and it's all Mary's fault. Loretta and Charlie get some not so friendly news. Loretta makes a spectacular comeback, in more ways than one
1x48 - Episode 048
March 10, 1976
Charlie and Loretta face eviction at the hands of the Friendly Loan Co. Steve appears on the Johnny Tilson Show, where it's apparent that he's romancing starlet Kate Walters. Martha faints after seeing George's blackmail photos.
1x49 - Episode 049
March 11, 1976
Mary tells Tom that it'll be 23 years before their sexual desires are synchronized again. Tom is angered by Mary's need for "something else" that she can't explain. Mary seeks answers to happiness from Grandpa Larkin who surmises she doesn't quite fit in anywhere. Mary hides under the kitchen sink. Cathy worries that she's losing Steve. Loretta has inspiration for a new song, Ballad of a Legless Woman. Mary cries and shares a lunch meat sandwich with Grandpa.
1x50 - Episode 050
March 12, 1976
Dr. Fermin tells Loretta that she's in spontaneous remission. Charlie devises a plan to come up with money to stall eviction by selling raffle tickets for a color TV he and Loretta don't have. Martha refuses to believe George's claim that he was framed by union officials in Milwaukee. Loretta and Mary decide that Mary's "thing" is communication. Tiny catches Charlie selling raffle tickets and orders him out. When Tom intervenes, Tiny tells him to shut up or he's fired, prompting Charlie to deck Tiny who falls to the floor unconscious.
1x51 - Episode 051
March 15, 1976
Now that Mary knows her thing is communication, she has to decide what to do with it. Tom doesn't communicate well when he tells Loretta and Mary what happened between Charlie and Tiny at the plant. Mary wishes Tom could convert the energy of anger into something sexy. George is happy he and Martha made up at 2:15 a.m. Cathy fears she's no longer good enough for Steve, and George threatens to punch his heart out. Loretta's engineer Clyde Muncie visits with news that his brother in Chicago wants to release Loretta's song as a single.
1x52 - Episode 052
March 16, 1976
Steve reassures Cathy that starlet Kate Walters was just for publicity. Tom has to explain to Heather that he broke the rules when he's sent home from the plant over the incident between Charlie and Tiny. George isn't sympathetic to Tom's situation. At the library, Mrs. Delorean introduces Mary to sex therapist Mona McKenzie from the Lackawanda Institute
1x53 - Episode 053
March 17, 1976
Cathy tells George and Martha that she and Steve are going to Hollywood to be married, just as Kate Walters arrives at Steve's apartment. Tom has it out with George and decides to run against him in the union election. Mary explains her problems to Mona McKenzie. Mary lies to Cathy that Mona is an old friend from high school who transferred away. Cathy discovers Steve in bed with Kate.
1x54 - Episode 054
March 18, 1976
Mary, Martha, and Loretta plan Cathy's impromptu bridal shower while she's throwing her engagement ring back at Steve. A distraught Cathy arrives home, announces Steve's infidelity, and renounces men. Dennis drops by the Hartman kitchen and tells Mary that he still wants her and will wait for her, but when Cathy arrives, Dennis asks her to dinner.
1x55 - Episode 055
March 19, 1976
Mary secretly phones Mona but can't talk. After her date with Dennis, Cathy's over Steve. Loretta has a new tune about Cathy's relationship with Steve called How Can You Say You Don't Love Me When You Never Could Talk At All? Clyde calls the Haggers with news that a royalty check is in the mail. Tom and George spar over union ideals at the plant. After hearing Baby Boy on the radio, Tiny offers to help Charlie get re-hired. Tom accuses Mary of meddling, and she accuses him of using sex to intimidate her into being a good girl. Mona phones Mary to arrange a meeting about sex therapy.
1x56 - Episode 056
March 22, 1976
Mary is too busy preparing food products without food to care about Cathy's relationship with Dennis. Loretta receives a phone call from another Mrs. Haggers. Mona arrives at the Hartman house to carry out Mary's plan. Loretta confronts Charlie about his past.
1x57 - Episode 057
March 23, 1976
Mary and Tom have a surrogate. Loretta gets a non-obscene phone call. Mary leaves Tom alone with Mona.
1x58 - Episode 058
March 24, 1976
Charlie talks to Loretta about Muriel. Cathy and Dennis return from a night together. Loretta prepares for her predecessor.
1x59 - Episode 059
March 25, 1976
Mrs. Haggers meets Mrs. Haggers. Sergeant Foley waits with Mary. Mary is shaking - and it's not from the cold. Charlie and Muriel remember things differently.
1x60 - Episode 060
March 26, 1976
Mary is not nervous as Mona drops by. Cathy has no need to be jealous. Tom learns the wonders of performance anxiety.
1x61 - Episode 061
March 29, 1976
Mary wonders about Tom's sudden burst of cooperativeness. Charlie tells Loretta the story of Muriel. Cathy has found the perfect man - again.
1x62 - Episode 062
March 30, 1976
Mona has a perfect record - practically. Loretta and Mary tackle each other's problems and talk about "the scar!"