ed asner: we were saying goodbye to the show and to each other.singing] gavin macleod: it's still emotional after all these years... because that was a family. [singing continues] lorraine ali: the mary tyler moore show and mtm enterprises were really powerful in terms of the workplace sitcom. alice leppert: in the 1970s the baby boom generation had not settled into the domestic life. young professionals, but who have not yet started their families. bob newhart: i didn't want to do the standard family show. patient: i'm sure he has girlfriends but he denies it. bob: well, of course... todd's 13 now. mark tinker: the fact that so many people in hollywood were hitting the couch, probably opened the doors for the setting of the show. bob newhart: i enjoyed the oddity of the people. bob: what seems to be your problem, stan? stan: bob, you have no idea what it's like to be incredibly good looking. bob newhart: i go into my office and there's a ventriloquist. guy: well doctor, frank here wants to break up the act and go on out on his own. caryn james: t

probably one of the more influential ones was ed asner, who made this connection for me between entertainmentnd politics, and just opened my mind to a different world. now, i also had an epiphany about that time that i was not a very good writer. so, likely i was not going to be a professional journalist. david: ok, so eventually, you got a job at a video store. ted: that was my part-time job when i was going to glendale community college. and then when i realized i wasn't going to pursue that degree, i kind of dropped out. and it was meant to be a year but it turned out to be a permanent move to business. david: so i understand that you became so knowledgeable about videos that when people say what should i rent, you had seen a lot of the videos and you could make recommendations and people came in because they liked your recommendations and wanted to see what you were going to recommend. ted: it's true. for no reason, my mother -- we did not have the money for it, but my mom bought a vcr. i did not know anyone else who had a vcr. and serendipitously, the second video store in the state of a