Mama's Family - The Complete First Season
by Jim Cox, Bob Priest, Dave Powers
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Actor: Carol Burnett, Eric Brown, Harvey Korman, Karin Argoud, Rue McClanahanDirector: Bob Priest, Dave Powers, Jim Cox
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 278 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Movie Review: Thanks for the heads up; I won't have to waste money on edited re-runs!
Summary: 1 Stars
Thanks to the REAL fans here that saved me from wasting money on edited re-runs. I understand that some are glad to just get Mama's Family at all, but they need to understand they're only going to hurt us all in the end. If we stick to our guns and say, "NO SALE ON EDITED RE-RUNS", you'll discover how fast the Warner company can release the COMPLETE episodes. They've pulled this same act before with other television shows. Warner has done such a tremendous disservice to Mama's Family. No sale!
Summary of Mama's Family - The Complete First Season
A spun-off sketch from the Carol Burnett Show Mama's Family mined humor from a squabbling family in the Midwestern blue collar suburb of Raytown. The noisy clan was headed by Mama a buxom gray-haired widow with sharp opinions and a sharper tongue who shared her small house with her high-strung sister Fran a journalist for a local paper. Mama's lazy dimwitted son Vint a locksmith by trade moved in at the start of the series with his troublesome teenage children Buzz and Sonja after his wife run off to become a Las Vegas show-girl. Much to Mama's disgust Vint soon took up with the flirtatious neighbor Naomi.Running Time: 278 min.System Requirements:Running Time 278 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating:?NR UPC:?012569804920 Manufacturer No:?80492Do you remember Mama? How could you forget her? As indelibly portrayed by Vicki Lawrence, formidable Mama put the "diss" in dysfunctional. Like Tyler Perry's Madea a decade later (but without the penchant for firearms or corporeal punishment), Mama dispenses no-nonsense motherly advice, discipline, and verbal kicks in the backside. She makes Dr. Phil look like Stuart Smalley. Thelma Harper does not suffer fools. She makes them--well, everybody--suffer. These include her sister, Fran (Rue McLanahan, The Golden Girls), a journalist who lives with her; her feckless son, Vint (Ken Berry, F-Troop), who moves in with his two teenagers after he is evicted from his house; and "bleached-blonde bimbo" Naomi (Dorothy Lyman, the original Opal on All My Children), who marries Vint by episode 4. Mama's extended family includes her two daughters, highfalutin Ellen (Betty White) and high-strung Eunice (Carol Burnett), who, to say the least, has issues. No one will mistake Mama's family for the Cleavers or the Bradys. They communicate mostly by screaming, and with put-downs often more cruel than comical. As a bystander tells Mama and Eunice in one episode, "Hold it, you're giving me a headache." One of the most memorable episodes is the one in which the Harpers must stick together when they appear on Family Feud (featuring a game Richard Dawson). Lawrence and Burnett, who appears in four episodes, share a palpable chemistry, honed all those years on The Carol Burnett Show, where Mama originated. As with those classic sketches, the best of these episodes, such as "Cellmates," in which Mama and Eunice are jailed after a disastrous birthday celebration, can make you laugh one minute and move you the next. Mama's Family is a great place to visit. Thank god we don't have to live there. --Donald Liebenson
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