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| MAMA'S FAMILY
THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON |
Distributor:
Warner Home Entertainment
Certificate:
Unrated | Region 1 | 2 disc set
Extras:
No
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Eric Brown, Karin Argoud,
Rue McClanahan, Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman
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THE
LOWDOWN
Mama's
Family mines humour from a
squabbling family in the
Midwestern blue collar suburb of
Raytown. The noisy clan is
headed by Thelma Harper
"Mama" (Vicki
Lawrence, The Carol Burnett
Show, The Vicky Lawrence Show) a
buxom, gray-haired widow with
sharp opinions and a sharper
tongue who shared her small
house with her high-strung
sister Fran (Rue McClanahan, The
Golden Girls), a journalist for
a local paper.
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Mama's
lazy, dimwitted son, Vint (Ken
Berry, F-Troop) a locksmith by
trade, moves in at the start of
the series with his troublesome
teenage children, Buzz (Eric
Brown) and Sonja (Karin Argoud),
after his wife runs off to
become a Las Vegas show girl.
Much to Mama's disgust, Vint
soon takes up with the
flirtatious neighbor Naomi
(Dorothy Lyman, All My
Children), who works as a
checker at the local grocery
store, Food Circus.
Mama's
Family also starred Betty White
(Golden Girls) as Ellen Jackson,
Harvey Korman (The Carol Burnett
Show) as Ed Higgins/Carl
Harper/Alistair Quince and Carol
Burnett (The Carol Burnett Show,
Carol & Company) as Eunice
Higgins.
THE
VERDICT
Growing
out of a regular sketch on the Carol Burnett Show which Carol based on
her own childhood, a spin off was a dead cert and the first episode
aired on 22 January 1983 and was an immediate hit.
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I'd never
actually seen Mama's Family before settling down to watch the 13
episodes that made up the first season and after getting over the
initial shock of seeing Vicki Lawrence's shocking wig, she's playing an
elderly widow but looks about 35 enjoyed the admittedly archetypal
sitcom shenanigans. Mama's Family certainly never broke any new ground
but had a lot of fans who are sure to enjoy this DVD release.
THE
EXTRAS
No
extras.
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