Citing long-hallowed fourth-estate insistence that source confidentiality is the handmaiden of free speech, she refused. But then a judge in a legal proceeding those very papers dealt with demanded that Mary reveal who the frightened little man was. And so, after consulting with gruff but lovable station boss Lou Grant (liberal icon Ed Asner), perky but prescient Mary wrote it up and had the lovably clueless Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) read it. What he had dropped in Mary’s lap was a scoop. He wanted the world to know about them, but he didn’t want it mentioned that he was the person who delivered them. There was news co-producer Mary Richards uncharacteristically alone in the WJM-TV office for a moment, when suddenly a frightened little man burst in with a raft of important clandestinely obtained papers. Cast your mind back to 1974 and the start of The Mary Tyler Moore Show’s fifth season. At the end of the day, it’s all about Mary Tyler Moore’s frightened little man.