Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Photographs

Here are several "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" photographs that I do not
feature on other pages of The Mary Kay Place Place. Additionally, there are
many of the non-Mary Kay Place "MH2" pictures that I
feature elsewhere repeated here for easier consolidated viewing.

For Mary Kay Place "Mary Hartman" photos, click the links below:

Mary Kay Place "MH2" Cast Photos

Mary Kay Place as Loretta Haggers

Davey Jessup holding Mary Hartman at gunpoint in the Chinese Laundry

TV 6 visits Mary and Tom Hartman in their kitchen

Cathy Shumway's first customer at the massage parlor

Garth Gimble's famous impaling by Christmas tree death scene

Mary Hartman smokes the marijuana cigarette she confiscated from Heather

Channel 6's Clete Meizenheimer moderates
"TV Dinner"

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These first six images are my attempt to recreate the look of Mary Hartman's kitchen TV set and are either video captures of the program or are television related in theme. I figured that the idea had run its course after these six and I've included the same shots in their original form just in case you don't appreciate the odd format.
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A TV Land
"Kitschen"
photo of
"Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"

Mary and
Tom Hartman
(Greg Mullavey)
share some Freakies at breakfast

Actress
Susan Browning played nurse
Pat Gimble

Another TV Land
"Kitschen"
photo of
"Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"

Cathy Shumway and deaf-mute boyfriend Steve who was portrayed by Ed Begley, Jr.

Louise Lasser on set in Mary's kitchen

Michael Lembeck as Fernwood, Ohio's TV 6 News reporter Clete Meizenheimer

Actress Salome Jens played Mae Olinski,
with whom
Tom Hartman
had an affair

Victor Kilian played the infamous
"Fernwood Flasher,"
AKA Grandpa Larkin, Mary's grandfather

Fernwood Mayoral First Lady Wanda Jeeter (Marian Mercer) and
Garth Gimble

Dody Goodman as Mary's blathering mother Martha Shumway -
"What is
a woman to do?"

Mary had a nervous breakdown on national TV on
"The David Susskind Show"

Mary Hartman
in her own world -
cooking in her kitchen, cigarette in hand

Greg Mullavey
in a guest
spot on
the series
"M*A*S*H"

Claudia Lamb as Mary's caustic
12-year-old daughter,
Heather

Producer Al Burton had the idea that a Nielsen's ratings box be on the TV in the sanitarium where Mary Hartman was committed after her nervous breakdown

In a bizarre storyline, Mary's mother Martha glammed it up and fell for Detective Johnson
(Ron Feinberg)

Mary Hartman
in a sanitarium after the breakdown

The "Official"
"Mary Hartman,
Mary Hartman"
picture

Louise Lasser
in a non-Mary moment, but
pig-tailed braids
completely intact

Heather Hartman
had a dream that
one day her family
would be
"normal"

Wanda Jeeter was just about the only
character who could best Mayor
Merle Jeeter
(Dabney Coleman)

A very early
promotional shot of Mary, Loretta (Mary Kay Place), Cathy, and Martha
in the Shumway
kitchen

Guest star
Gore Vidal
visited Mary in
the mental
hospital

Louise
Lasser,
Louise
Lasser

Character actor
Philip Bruns
played Mary's
father, George
Shumway

Child actor
Sparky Marcus
played the Jeeter's
prodigy evangelist
son Jimmy Joe.
He died while watching TV in his
bathtub

Roberta Wolashek
was played by
Samantha Harper
and fell in
love with
Grandpa Larkin

Mary had a visit
from TV pop
psychologist
Dr. Joyce Brothers

Heather had
another dream -
to become a
nun one day

Mary puffs on a
cigarette, no doubt
worried about her
waxy, yellow
buildup.

The cover of
Daniel Lockwood's
The Mary Hartman
Story, a paperback
released during the peak of "MH2"

The cover of Ben
Stein's (of "Win Ben Stein's Money") book,
Fernwood, U.S.A.

Mary Hartman's
kitchen pantry
as depicted in
Fernwood, U.S.A.
Product placement abounded on "MH2"

Mary Hartman's
medicine
cabinet, also
from
Fernwood, U.S.A.

The cover of the VHS box for Vol.1
of "The Best of
Mary Hartman,
Mary Hartman" -
long out
of print

Mary and Tom in a rare moment of tenderness between the two characters

Debralee Scott
played Mary's sister
Cathy Shumway

Martin Mull played
Barth Gimble, one of the most detested
(and loved) "MH2"
characters

George showed up at the doorstep chanting one Christmas after disappearing for several weeks. He had fallen victim to the cult of the Bogus Zidi!

Maybe these moments weren't
too rare

George was also
victim to a union
frame-up with a hooker. Here's a photo synopsis of the dirty deed.

Mary at just about the moment when she cracks up on "The David Susskind
Show"

Greg Mullavey
wearing his famous
baseball cap as
Tom Hartman

Dabney Coleman
was able to perfectly blend evil with comedy in his role as Merle Jeeter

Charlie Haggers (Graham Jarvis) was somehow convinced to try for a more youthful look. The result is not-so-great.

Merle Jeeter would stoop to any level in order to become mayor of Fernwood.

Martha was well known for talking to her plants, a popular fad in the 1970's.

Charlie Haggers-
Loretta's ever-lovin'
"Baby Boy"

Bruce Solomon
played Mary's (extra-marital) love interest, Sgt. Dennis Foley with a kind of creepy charm

Ironically, it was Mary who nursed Mae back to health (in her Mary's own bed!) after Mae attempted suicide

The comedy was uniquely "MH2" when Mary served Mae her breakfast in bed.

Brude Solomon,
Louise Lasser,
and Greg Mullavey
in the Hartman kitchen set

Mary was dividing her attention between her waxy, yellow build-up, the TV, and Dennis

Mary's not quite sure yet that she wants to go down the infidelity road with Sgt. Foley

Louise Lasser gets a quick make up and wardrobe check

More of the script read-through with more cast and crew

Salome Jens, Greg Mullavey, and Graham Jarvis in the Haggers living room set during a script read-through

Greg Mullavey and Louise Lasser with a crew member between taping

Louise Lasser gets the star treatment while Mary Kay Place looks on

Louise Lasser with her pet Scottie Kefir, who was always on set when she was taping

As captioned in People Magazine,
"I'm a starer."

Another People Magazine photo with "MH2" developer Norman Lear

Another Norman Lear and Louise Lasser photo

Louise Lasser said of her "MH2" experience, "It's been scary. I can't let go yet, because I'm afraid of what I'll find out when I do."

Mary made an unfortunate visit

to Blanche (Reva Rose) and

Leroy (Norman Alden) Fedders'

home when Leroy had the flu.

Unfortunately, and, infamously, Leroy

drowned in Mary's chicken soup.

Blanche Fedders demands to know,
"Is this the cheapest funeral you could arrange?
Are you sure?"

David Rounds as the minister who delivered a mighty weird funeral service for Leroy Fedders in the Hartman kitchen

In 1977, Reiss Games, Inc. produced the "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" Board Game in order to capitalize
on the show's
success.

Mary has to go home to clean under her kitchen table or to wax her floor, or another character gets sent somewhere.

Yes, he is quite dead.

Mary seems more upset than Blanche.

These are the game pieces. Each player gets one Mary and two "Episode Cards."

The object of the game is to get the four characters on your episode card in a Fernwood locaction.

However, your opponents may also need the characters you need for their episode cards.

And when one lands on an "Action Card" space, any number of character moves may take place-

Sound confusing? It probably was for anyone who ever tried to play it too. It didn't really catch on. But it's still an interesting "MH2" artifact.

There were "MH2" T-Shirts, modeled here by a guy who was recently selling one on ebay.

Marie Osmond spoofed Mary on the "Donny and Marie Show's" "Marie Heartburn, Marie Heartburn"
(seen with guest Florence Henderson)

"The Carol Burnett Show" did the best parody of "MH2" with "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary." Carol played a nursery rhyme version of Louise,
while Vicki Lawrence played Loretta and Jim
Nabors played Charlie.

Louise Lasser
hosted "Saturday
Night Live" in
1976

Of course, "MH2" had to have a spinoff show. Martin Mull took the reins as Barth Gimble, Garth's twin brother, on the brilliant "Fernwood 2-Night" after Garth's character was killed off.

A TV Land promotional photo of Mull when they reran episodes of "F2N"