Mama's Family
Mama's Family
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Mama's Family

7.5 / 10
1983
6 seasons
130 episodes
Comedy

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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Seasons

  • Vint and the Kids Move In

    1.Vint and the Kids Move In

    22-01-198325m

    Mama's in a hurry to get to the mall for a sale and tries to hurry Fran along to finish eating. But before that can happen Fran's boss at the newspaper calls. Telling her she has t...

  • For Better or For Worse

    2.For Better or For Worse

    8.0
    29-01-198325m

    After many years of not seeing each other, since high school, Vinton and Mama's next door neighbor Naomi Oates are reunited. They become quite close and Vint tells her that he had...

  • The Wedding (1)

    3.The Wedding (1)

    05-02-198325m

    Vint and Buzz go to a bachelor party in celebration of Vint's impending marriage to Naomi. Meanwhile back at the house, Fran, Ellen, and Mama are decorating the living room when Na...

  • The Wedding (2)

    4.The Wedding (2)

    12-02-198325m

    The day of the wedding is at hand, and Vint and Naomi are ready to tie the knot. While Eunice still wants to sing her solo, she first asks Vint who says she'll have to talk to Naom...

  • Family Feud

    5.Family Feud

    10.0
    19-02-198325m

    Vinton gets an idea of taking the family (eveyone except Sonja) on to the game show Family Feud, so that they can have a chance at winning $10,000. He's even selected each person f...

  • Cellmates

    6.Cellmates

    7.0
    26-02-198325m

    Mama, Vint and Ed throw Eunice a suprise birthday party at the bigger jigger, problem is she's hoping for a trip to the Babalonian Roof Gardens. The birthday party soon turns ugly...

  • Mama Gets a Job

    7.Mama Gets a Job

    05-03-198325m

    Mama is complaining about not having done nothing with her life, so Naomi suggests she get a job. So Mama heads down to the employment agency, and after freaking out taking the ent...

  • Ep 8

    8.Double Standard

    7.0
    12-03-198325m

    Buzz and Sonya are getting ready for the the high school's Homecoming dance, when Vint tells the kids they both have to be in by midnight. Both complain, but Sonya (who's older) do...

  • Ep 9

    9.Mama's Boyfriend

    7.0
    19-03-198325m

    Mama is all dressed up as Fran gets back from the store and she wonders ""Who Died?"", Sonya soon asks the same question, before Mama reveals she has a date with an old beau she ha...

  • Ep 10

    10.Fran's Dress

    26-03-198325m

    Vint, who has a bowling tournament, wants Mama to wash and iron his shirt and have dinner ready early. Then Fran, who has an awards banquet that night, asks Mama to iron the dress...

  • Ep 11

    11.Alien Marriage

    02-04-198325m

    Claude, having come up with another hair brained scheme, tells Vint that he has a good deal, and Vint could make $1600 (and Claude will make $400 for a finders fee). The plan is fo...

  • Ep 12

    12.Positive Thinking

    30-04-198325m

    Eunice is telling Mama how bad her life sucks, while at the same moment making everyone else's life a living hell too. That's when Buzz comes in and tells Mama about how he just ma...

  • Ep 13

    13.Mama's Silver

    07-05-198325m

    Mama's going on about Vint's friend Claude being a bum and everything, when Ellen finally brings Mama's silver back. Mama wants Vint to put it up right then, so no one will steal i...

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