In 1972 she starred opposite Alan Alda in an unsold comedy anthology pilot called "The Class of '55" which would show what happened to the graduates of a fictional college seventeen years after the fact.
Louise Lasser hosted at the end of the first season of "Saturday Night Live" (1975) on July 24, 1976. Lasser was said to be going through personal problems at the time and was reportedly nearly incoherent throughout the broadcast.
Mary (Hartman) is me - I mean, she's who I would be if I had grown up in a small town and married my high school sweetheart and become a housewife instead of growing up in the big city and becoming an actress and marrying a genius.