Rhoda (Valarie Harper) was the popular spin-off of the beloved Mary Tyler Moore Show. Rhoda began when she goes home to New York for a visit and unexpectedly meets Joe (David Groh) and decides to leave Minneapolis for New York City. In the first season, Rhoda and Joe fall in love, get married, and set up life together in spite of the non-stop meddling of Rhoda's overbearing mother Ida (Nancy Walker), her needy depressed sister Brenda (Julia Kavner), Carlton, the doorman, and her loving but ineffectual father Martin (Harold Gould). "The Wedding" (a one-hour special episode) reunites Rhoda with her old pals from Minneapolis - Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Cloris Leachman, Gavin McLeod, Ted Knight, and Georgia Engel.