The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Mary Tyler Moore had previously been part of the cast of a good sitcom, The Dick Van Dyke Show. But when Moore got her own titular sitcom, the cast was utterly stacked. Even all these years later, The Mary Tyler Moore Show is in the running for the best sitcom cast ever.

It starts with Moore, who won three Emmys for playing Mary Richards, but she wasn’t the only one with multiple Emmys. Ed Asner’s turn as Lou Grant is an all-timer, and Ted Knight won a couple for playing the delightfully dumb Ted Baxter.

Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman both won Emmys, and both got spinoffs, but when those two ladies were moving on, The Mary Tyler Moore Show did not flinch. Instead, they brought in Betty freakin’ White! The rich got richer.