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At last! The final season of Rhoda, the hilarious and award-winning spin-off to the classic The Mary Tyler Moore Show, arrives on DVD!Starring Valerie Harper as the charming and cheeky New Yorker Rhoda Morgenstern, Rhoda's final thirteen episodes are a baker's dozen of comedic tales that the series' many fans will love. With balmy sister Brenda (Julie Kavner, The Simpsons) and irrepressible mom Ida (Nancy Walker, Girl Crazy, Broadway Rhythm) by her side, Rhoda is back for one last bite of the Big Apple!

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“What a pleasure it is to get the fifth and final season of RHODA on DVD. This was the season when CBS cancelled the show mid-season. The network only showed 9 of the 13 filmed episodes. The four final episodes weren't available to fans until RHODA went into syndication (and then they were trimmed so that more commercials could be inserted). Happily, all 13 uncut episodes are on the two disk set. (And they ARE full episodes. I'm not sure if someone got a defective set, but someone was complaining that the final episode cuts off abruptly. My set contained the full episode and entire end credits.) The cast is great and have a wonderful, relaxed camaraderie after five years together. This is the season when Rhoda and Brenda (Valerie Harper and Julie Kavnver) discover that their father has left their mother. This opens up for new storylines such as Rhoda discovering that her mother (Nancy Walker) is dating a younger man (in the episode "Rhoda Vs. Ida"--which was nominated for the Writers Guild of America's award for Best Comedy Episode--although it lost to an episode of M*A*S*H that year). There's also the hilarious episode when Ida decides to take a roommate. This is also the seaon where Benny (Ray Buktenica) proposes to Brenda and she accepts...and has to meet his parents (played by George Wyner and Peggy Pope). This season five DVD set shows that RHODA was NOT running out of steam; the writers were still turning out excellent, hilarious episodes and the cast was still great. And a trivia note: the final four episodes were all directed by Nancy Walker.”

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