Lou gets convention tickets for three staff members. Ted manages to get his oar in and takes Lou's tickets. Murray and Mary are the others. When they arrive in Los Angeles, they are greeted by a very attractive reporter who suddenly has a great interest in Ted. Murray wimps out and goes home. The reporter comes on to Ted and they agree to a more in-depth interview, but it is clearly about some hanky panky. This ultimately leads to a scene where Ted needs to use every bit of his resistance to avoid cheating. A very funny episode.
4 Reviews
A tempting offer
Rrrobert29 March 2020
Lou has three tickets to a conference in Los Angeles so sends Mary, Murray, and Ted (who had begged to go).
Attractive reporter Whitney (the Australian-born Trisha Noble) befriends the trio but is especially interested in Ted, eagerly pursuing a romantic assignation with him. A tempted Ted struggles to resist her.
Noble is great and the episode very funny.
Attractive reporter Whitney (the Australian-born Trisha Noble) befriends the trio but is especially interested in Ted, eagerly pursuing a romantic assignation with him. A tempted Ted struggles to resist her.
Noble is great and the episode very funny.
Ted is hilarious !
ronnybee211216 February 2021
Warning: Spoilers
This is another great episode! It is very funny. Ted's dilemma is presented in a tactful way,and he handles it just about like we might expect Ted Baxter to handle it.. Because as much of a boor that Ted is,he's a decent and honest guy at heart. Basically,married Ted Baxter is on a weekend trip out of town with his co-workers. Ted's wife is at home. A lovely young lady journalist 'Whitney Lewis' takes a serious shine to Ted Baxter,and pretty much offers herself to married Ted! This woman is a beauty,and Ted is pretty shaken-up after she makes her offer,and her intentions,clear. Something like this doesn't happen often,and Ted is getting older..
On the other hand,Ted knows that he has a one-in-a-million partner in sweet little Georgette. While this is running through his mind,he tries to tell anyone in the group that will listen to him that the young reporter is putting the moves on him! Naturally nobody takes him seriously,as Ted is well-known for his vanity and delusions of grandeur. Eventually,Mary Tyler Moore gets to hear some of a later phonecall between Ted and the beautiful 'Whitney Lewis',and this removes all doubts as to this woman's intentions.
Well,somehow we eventually do get to a"showcase showdown" when Ted visits Whitney in her hotel room. Somehow,some way,Ted manages to turn his back and walk away from a very lovely and eager younger woman.
Ted is a better man than many other men would have been in this one episode!
Some friends Mary & Murray are
Christopher37017 October 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Mary & Murray are all excited to fly out to Los Angeles for a convention with Lou but their happiness quickly dissipates when they learn Ted is going with them in Lou's place. After 7 seasons, we get it...Ted can be an insufferable person at times, but it's been shown over the seasons that his coworkers have also accepted him as a friend too. We've seen these incidences play out with each of the main characters in some quite touching scenes over the seasons, but in this episode both Mary & Murray treat Ted like he's a nuisance rather than a friend and coworker.
Murray constantly insults Ted back in the news room, but here he insults Ted while making introductions with a convention acquaintance which was unfunny and unprofessional.
The acquaintance is a woman journalist who winds up taking a liking to Ted and comes on to him when they're alone. When Ted confides this to Mary & Murray, rather than helping him, they both laugh, tell him it's all in his head and openly wonder what any woman would want to go to bed with him for.
It makes no sense because Ted is a very good looking man so their laughs and words only make them appear like jealous high school kids. Both stop laughing when they find out he's telling the truth---but they still refuse to help him from the temptation when he genuinely asks for it. Some friends!
Murray, who was SO excited to get out of freezing Minneapolis to 85 degree California for the weekend, ups and leaves after one day----for a sick hamster back at home?! It makes the viewer wonder if he's purposely leaving Ted the hotel room for himself to make giving in to his temptation all the more easier and ruin his marriage The way Murray always insults Ted, it's a valid and plausible thing to consider.
Then there's Mary. After Murray splits Ted implores her help in the matter, especially now that he's all alone in the hotel room. But rather than be a friend and help, she's unsympathetic to his situation and is too busy getting ready for a date! She can pick up a date during a 2 day convention, but no time to help out a friend and coworker in need. Mary was a little out of character here, because she's a good friend to Georgette so we'd expect her to help Ted out.
But she's got no time to listen or lend a sympathetic ear to his predicament in her rush to get dressed for her date and shoos him off and out of her connecting room. Ted is practically begging for help here and she really shows no concern which was disconcerting to watch. Ted can be insufferable, but he's not a bad guy and certainly undeserving of being waved off by both his coworkers when coming to them for help. He's never been shown to do anything in the past to either to make them treat him in such a negative way.
In the end, Ted's morals and conscience win out and he refrains from breaking his marriage vows, and even after her lousy treatment to him, Ted thanks Mary and calls her an angel for helping him!! Poor Ted is incredibly naive because he doesn't realize any tiny amount of help she MAY have given was like pulling teeth to get.
Ted is like an innocent little boy. He always says what's on his mind but never says the things he says to intentionally hurt others. (unlike Murray with his constant and unwarranted insults towards him.) and you can see he wants so badly to be liked by his coworkers yet they treat him like crap in return. It's a 10 star episode because Ted Knight is great throughout it as well as the woman who played the lusty journalist, but Murray and Mary's treatment of Ted here leave a bad taste. Both could've been more helpful and empathetic to his situation and just came off as mean. After 7 seasons, I believe both would have treated the situation with more care and concern than they showed. Perhaps in the first 2 seasons treating Ted like he was beneath them and being unhelpful would've worked, but not at this point in the series when they both should consider him more as a friend than annoying nuisance.
Murray constantly insults Ted back in the news room, but here he insults Ted while making introductions with a convention acquaintance which was unfunny and unprofessional.
The acquaintance is a woman journalist who winds up taking a liking to Ted and comes on to him when they're alone. When Ted confides this to Mary & Murray, rather than helping him, they both laugh, tell him it's all in his head and openly wonder what any woman would want to go to bed with him for.
It makes no sense because Ted is a very good looking man so their laughs and words only make them appear like jealous high school kids. Both stop laughing when they find out he's telling the truth---but they still refuse to help him from the temptation when he genuinely asks for it. Some friends!
Murray, who was SO excited to get out of freezing Minneapolis to 85 degree California for the weekend, ups and leaves after one day----for a sick hamster back at home?! It makes the viewer wonder if he's purposely leaving Ted the hotel room for himself to make giving in to his temptation all the more easier and ruin his marriage The way Murray always insults Ted, it's a valid and plausible thing to consider.
Then there's Mary. After Murray splits Ted implores her help in the matter, especially now that he's all alone in the hotel room. But rather than be a friend and help, she's unsympathetic to his situation and is too busy getting ready for a date! She can pick up a date during a 2 day convention, but no time to help out a friend and coworker in need. Mary was a little out of character here, because she's a good friend to Georgette so we'd expect her to help Ted out.
But she's got no time to listen or lend a sympathetic ear to his predicament in her rush to get dressed for her date and shoos him off and out of her connecting room. Ted is practically begging for help here and she really shows no concern which was disconcerting to watch. Ted can be insufferable, but he's not a bad guy and certainly undeserving of being waved off by both his coworkers when coming to them for help. He's never been shown to do anything in the past to either to make them treat him in such a negative way.
In the end, Ted's morals and conscience win out and he refrains from breaking his marriage vows, and even after her lousy treatment to him, Ted thanks Mary and calls her an angel for helping him!! Poor Ted is incredibly naive because he doesn't realize any tiny amount of help she MAY have given was like pulling teeth to get.
Ted is like an innocent little boy. He always says what's on his mind but never says the things he says to intentionally hurt others. (unlike Murray with his constant and unwarranted insults towards him.) and you can see he wants so badly to be liked by his coworkers yet they treat him like crap in return. It's a 10 star episode because Ted Knight is great throughout it as well as the woman who played the lusty journalist, but Murray and Mary's treatment of Ted here leave a bad taste. Both could've been more helpful and empathetic to his situation and just came off as mean. After 7 seasons, I believe both would have treated the situation with more care and concern than they showed. Perhaps in the first 2 seasons treating Ted like he was beneath them and being unhelpful would've worked, but not at this point in the series when they both should consider him more as a friend than annoying nuisance.
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