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  Mama's
Family
The First Season of
Mama's Family is now available on DVD!
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MAMA KNOWS BEST!
WARNER HOME VIDEO BRINGS THE HIT COMEDY SERIES
MAMA’S FAMILY
TO DVD September 26, 2006
BURBANK, CA (June 19, 2006) – Good Lord!
Warner Home Video is bringing one of television’s most beloved dysfunctional
families to DVD this fall with the release of Mama’s Family: The Complete
First Season on September 26, 2006. The two-disc set will include 13
episodes of the show’s first season and will retail for $ 26.97. Order due date
for Mama’s Family: The Complete First Season has been set for August 22,
2006.
 Mama’s
Family, the delightfully offbeat comedy whose successful run spanned from
January 22, 1983 to March 12, 1990, originally began as a skit on the legendary
Carol Burnett Show. Entitled The Family, the sketch was roughly
based on Carol Burnett’s childhood and was such a hit that it generated its own
spin-off series which premiered on NBC.
Mama’s Family mined humor from a squabbling
family in the Midwestern blue collar suburb of Raytown. The noisy clan was
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.
Mama’s lazy, dimwitted son, Vint (Ken Berry, F-Troop) a locksmith by
trade, moved 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 took 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 first time on DVD, Mama’s Family: The
Complete First Season will include all 13 episodes from the show’s premiere
season, which aired from January 1983 to May 1983.
“Mama’s Family is one of those shows that
has a unique appeal because of its offbeat humor which pokes fun at the faults
and dysfunctions of a quirky mid-western family. The premise of the show was
great, the cast was terrific and, the story lines were funny,” commented
Rosemary Markson, WHV Vice President, TV Marketing. She added, Mama’s Family
is one of those shows that gets better and better season after season. For
years fans have anxiously been asking us to release it on DVD and we are
delighted to bring it to consumers at last. There is no other series like
Mama’s Family. It has such character, charm and appeal. It’s meant for
those who want to take a break from everyday life and just have a great laugh.”
Our Review of Mama's Family Season 1 DVD
Mama's Family is one of those shows I never
watched when it was on, but watched many of the episodes in re-runs. They
must have played most of the later seasons in re-run, because many of the
characters were new to me. Beginning with the first episode, the remembered
favorites such as Vicki Lawrence (Mama) and Ken Berry (Vint) display the
chemistry that kept the show going for seven seasons (1983-1990). Those
two characters I remember well, however, his children (that all move into Mama's
house with him) played by Eric Brown and Karin Argoud are only vague memories -
as are the characters played by Golden Girls Betty White and Rue
McClanahan. A pleasant surprise during this first season is the
appearance of Mama's daughter Eunice, played by the great Carol Burnett who does
nothing but make you laugh, even when not intended.
The show was well written and had a special appeal
to many of its viewers. The episodes in the first season take you through
some very real-life situations and although it tries to make some levity out of
the reality of what is going on, you can almost visualize these things happening
in real life. These issues include divorce, foreclosure, poverty, love,
marriage, family, friendship, the elderly and even immigration. Maybe
there is a message to these shows, that no matter how bad things get, there is
always a lighter side and maybe even a bright silver lining when you stick
together as a family.
If you are a fan of the show, this DVD is a must,
especially the first season where the basis for the storyline of the next
several years is set. If not a fan, or have never watched the series, you
can watch it new and get hooked from the very beginning. The DVD includes all
thirteen episodes in their entirety on two disks. My only negative
observation is that the DVD does not include any special features - I guess
those will be included with the release of the later seasons.
Mama's Family Season 1 Video Clips:
GONNA BE LATE
HIGH SCHOOL CRUSH
(:30 for WHV, non-exclusive)
NAOMI OATS
NUTS IN HOUSE
PAY RENT (:30 for WHV, non-exclusive)
THE KISS
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