MAMA'S FAMILY 🌟 THEN AND NOW 2020

you [Music] good lord Thelma harbors clan has a rather unique history and television moving from Carol Burnett Show comedy sketches to mate for television movie to beloved sitcom while the family members may have changed over the years one constant throughout was mama herself brilliantly portrayed by Vicki Lawrence to this day Lawrence continues to revive the character for TV appearances how they changed team thought it was only fitting to revisit Raytown and in earth some delightful details you might not know about Mama's family don't forget to live like and let's begin there was no pilot made each year dozens of pricey television pilots go unseen as networks pass on the prospective shows that's just how the biz works what is far far rarer if not unheard of outside of this example is a television show being ordered without a pilot producer Joe Hamilton salt the idea of Mama's Family to NBC chairman grant tinker over a game of golf not that NBC was buying the idea code the carol burnett shows the families kids and the popular 1982 television movie eunice had established the characters and concept the share was canceled after its second season getting the axe from a network doesn't always mean death in 1984 NBC booted the Harper family from its lineup the episodes fared well in summer reruns however and others took note the recently merged Laura Martellus was on the hunt for first-run syndicated properties seen live in mama yet the company ordered 100 episodes sitcoms like Charles in Charge silver spoons and Webster would soon follow a similar path yet it was momma's that would become the highest-rated sitcom in the first-run syndication two different houses were shown in the opening credits with a jump from network to syndication came several changes Sam Services Department cast members and some as subtlest weeks in the opening credits in its initial run the Harper home is a smaller boat additionally the title graphic original pink switch to yellow in subsequent releases over the years the original house has been replaced with a more familiar dwelling but the color variants still differentiates the two runs the instrumental theme song actually had lyrics while we never hear them in the television show there Ryan did lyrics for bless my happy home Lawrence has been known to perform them in concert the teen features charming couplets like vichyssoise and escargot with nothing on black-eyed peas and home where a Saturday night will cost you 12-point 98 dollars and that's including the wine Jamboree played two different sons of Tama Harper the members of mama's family evolved as they went from comedy skip - TV movie - sitcom in the family sketches Thelma has five children including three sons Larry Jack and Phillip in unis the clan has been trimmed to three kids with just one son Phillip played by ken berry the F Troop and memory RFD bat would go on to star his only son Vinton on the sitcom the Two Harbors inherited different genes Phillip was a pulitzer winning author while Vinton was a lovable dou Betty White Andrew McClanahan acted together before the Golden Girls in the series her strong brew McLennan played Mama's sister Frank Crowley who eventually chokes on a toothpick at the bigger G again the incomparable Betty White was the eldest a lead his daughter Ellen though NBC might have seemed foolish for dumping Mama's Family and Selena the show would prove her teacher's for the network in some ways white and McClanahan of a broth free to jump aboard a certain new sitcom about three older women living together in Miami initially white was set to play the last field lunch while McClanahan was said to be the scatterbrained Bros in no small part based on their prior rows the two switched characters at the last moment the location of Ray town is never explicitly stated much like Springfield on the Simpsons the city of Ray town is never given a home state in Mama's family the era some references to the tri-state area but the specifics remain vague Lawrence confessed the town is loosely based on Raytown Missouri a suburb of Kansas City still the Harper family does not definitely live in the show-me state however this did not deter the real-life citizens of ray town from voting to erect a $10,000 stative mama lawrence earned an Emmy nomination for playing Thelma Harper but not in Mama's family Lawrence earned a nomination for her mama character after her work alongside Carol Burnett in the Eunice movie not once for the sitcom she lost the trophy to Penny fuller in the Elephant Man Vicki Lawrence made a disco album Lawrence is a multimedia start most remember her Heat the night the lights went out in Georgia which reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in 1973 the actress was continuing her singing career throughout the seventies culminating in an overlooked album of Lights dance grooves dubbed newborn woman in 1979 mommy ran for president in 2008 in 2008 Tom Harper who was briefly mayor Freetown announced her candidacy for President of the United States with the book mama for president good lord why not her platform included building senior citizen homes along the border to police immigration every time I enjoy exotic delicacies like Italian sausage polish kielbasa or German Nakhla worst I'm thankful foreigners have come to America and brought their whiners with them she wrote why don't we ever see another on Bhama appeared on Jeopardy family feud and Hollywood Squares thalma was a major fan of game shows a mama's family and in the real world mama made both Alex Trebek and Richard Orson while trying to win some money on the sitcom while years later Lawrence continued to sleep on the wig in house dress to pop up in character is one of the Hollywood Squares Lawrence also hosted a game show in the late 1980s win lose or draw a picture alike contest that took place on a set mudal after Burt Reynolds living room plans for a spin-off of the family sketches had been discussed as early as seasons 9/10 of The Carol Burnett Show executive producer and Burnett Stan husband Jerry Hamilton came to Vicki Lawrence with a news that he had made a deal to produce a weekly half-hour sitcom based on the sketches but Lawrence who had just given birth to her second child declined to participate and the deal was off it wasn't until the success of the unit special in 1982 that burnin and Hamilton were able to convince Lawrence to do the series Burnett decided to try for another spin-off idea when she in Hamilton divorced in 1984 around the time momma's family ended its run on NBC this resulted in Hamilton getting the rights to the family sketches in the divorce terms due to the fact that he was the executive producer of The Carol Burnett Show and helped write several of the family sketches Burnett phoned up Lawrence wanting proposing a syndicated series featuring Eunice and Mama but Lawrence told her she and Hamilton had already signed with lorimar telepath then the series syndicated distributor to relaunch Mama's Family causing Burnett to promptly hang up on her the two actresses eventually reconciled following Hamilton's death in 1991 according to rumor Clanton the original concept for aunt Fran was radically different fren was initially conceived to be far more assertive and bossing and would have served as a primary foil to thalma McLennan had never before played a character this type and eagerly signed on she was bitterly disappointed upon learning that fran had been rewritten into farsi uptight spinster consequently rune did not enjoy her experience on the series that march and wasn't at all sorry when it was cancelled and thats all for now don't forget to leave a like subscribe and share this video with fans take care [Music]

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Length: 10min 3sec (603 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 20 2020