Lou’s First Date
Newly separated, Lou decides to try dating again, but the blind date Mary arranges is definitely not what he had in mind. Martha: Florence Lake. Edie: Priscilla Morrill. Georgette: Georgia Engel. Mike: Jeff Thompson., Now that he is separated from his wife, Lou (Edward Asner) feels it is time to re-enter the dating scene. To overcome his own shyness, Lou insists that Mary (Mary Tyler Moore) find him a date for an award banquet. Thanks to one of those mix-ups so common to TV sitcoms, Lou ends up escorting octogenarian Martha Dudley (Florence Lake), who’d once been “a flower girl at Thomas Edison’s wedding.” A brilliant blend of hilarity and poignancy, “Lou’s First Date” originally aired on November 3, 1973., Newly separated, Lou decides to try dating again, but the blind date Mary arranges is definitely not what he had in mind.
