Mama's Family (1983)

6
/ 10
38 User Ratings
25m
Running Time

6
Seasons

130
Episodes

January 22, 1983
Release Date

TV
IMDb ratings
7.3
Mama's Family

Mama's Family (1983)

6
/ 10
38 User Ratings
25m
Running Time

6
Seasons

130
Episodes

January 22, 1983
Release Date

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Plot.

Thelma Harper and her spinster sister Fran open their home to Thelma's recently divorced son Vinton and his teenage son and daughter. It's quite an adjustment for everyone, especially the cranky, argumentative Thelma.

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Cast & Crew.

Amy Benedict

Amy Benedict

Margo (girl at garage sale)

Michael Fairman

Michael Fairman

Joe

Ted Hayden

Ted Hayden

Harry

Dorothy Van

Dorothy Van

Aunt Effie Harper / Writer

Flo Di Re

Flo Di Re

Peg

Burton Gilliam

Burton Gilliam

Bud

Roger Hampton

Roger Hampton

Hank

Karen Hensel

Karen Hensel

Olga Strecknavitch

Details.

Release Date
January 22, 1983

Status
Ended

Seasons
6

Episodes
130

Running Time
25m

Genres

Last updated:

This TV Show Is About.

family
sitcom
Scripted

Wiki.

Mama's Family is an American sitcom television series starring Vicki Lawrence as Mama (Thelma Harper). The series is a spin-off of a recurring series of comedy sketches called "The Family" featured on The Carol Burnett Show (1967–78) and Carol Burnett & Company (1979). The sketches led to the television film Eunice, and finally the television series.

Mama's Family aired on NBC, debuting on January 22, 1983. After several timeslot changes and a subsequent drop in ratings, the network cancelled the series; the final episode of this two-season NBC incarnation of the series aired on April 7, 1984. NBC broadcast reruns until September 1985, which unexpectedly performed well in ratings.

Two years after its cancellation, original series producer Joe Hamilton Productions (JHP) revived Mama's Family for new episodes in first-run syndication on local stations across the United States. The reincarnation, distributed by Lorimar-Telepictures, premiered on September 27, 1986. The modified four-season series revival gained substantially higher ratings than its first incarnation, eventually becoming the highest-rated sitcom in first-run syndication, with its final episode airing on February 24, 1990.

The show's theme song is "Bless My Happy Home," created as an a cappella by Lawrence. The show's producers chose to use an instrumental of Lawrence's song composed by Peter Matz. Disclosing the lyrics to the song as part of her Vicki and Mama: A Two Woman Show (untelevised stand-up comedy routine Lawrence has hosted as herself and Mama since 2001), Lawrence routinely performs the song in its original a cappella form. The lyrics were also featured in an advertisement for the show on MeTV.

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