In early 1974, as “ROOM 222″ was winding up production, 20th Century-Fox asked David Davis & Lorenzo Music, who originally produced “THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW” (later creating and producing “THE BOB NEWHART SHOW”) to come up with a pilot for Karen Valentine to sell to ABC for the fall. They wrote and produced “THE KAREN VALENTINE SHOW”, in which Our Heroine, emerging from a bitter divorce {oh no, not OUR Karen!}, finds employment as a law clerk in a small firm, while trying to restablish herself an a single woman {”let’s see if we can’t mould her into another Mary Tyler Moore”}. But, Karen has problems on the side: she has a somewhat immature boyfriend [Archie Hahn] who can’t understand that she wants nothing more to do with him; an amorous next-door neighbor [Vern Rowe] who’s also a minor-league baseball player; and her parents [Garry Walberg & Dena Dietrich], who still treat her as though she’s their “little girl”. Well, after seeing that, ABC rejected the idea, insisting another pilot be produced for a mid-season replacement. That’s when Fox turned to Gene Reynolds and Larry Gelbart (because they were SO good at producing “M*A*S*H”) and said, “We need another Karen Valentine pilot- DO IT!”. They did, retaining only Dena Dietrich from the original version…and the rest soon became forgotten.