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Mama's Family Marathon on CMT/Even More Full House on Nick-at-Nite

MarcB

MarcB

Wouldn't it be funny if Fox acquired CMT, only to "de-South" its look (see: Turner South) and farm its own TV libraries on there like Married with Children.
 
MarcB said:
CMT will be airing a Mama's Family Marathon on December 30th at 5PM. Meanwhile sister station Nick-At-Nite will be adding another run of Full House. Full House will once again will be airing 7 days a week 5AM-6AM. This replaces Murphy Brown/NewsRadio, both which are now off the network.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/blog/2006/12/mamas-family-blocks-on-cmt-nicknite.html
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I guess this means that Mama's Family will be gone from the "I" Network and CMT will be its new home for the show. I just wonder when the chains to lock the "I" Network will go into effect.
 
Braves2005 said:
MarcB said:
CMT will be airing a Mama's Family Marathon on December 30th at 5PM. Meanwhile sister station Nick-At-Nite will be adding another run of Full House. Full House will once again will be airing 7 days a week 5AM-6AM. This replaces Murphy Brown/NewsRadio, both which are now off the network.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/blog/2006/12/mamas-family-blocks-on-cmt-nicknite.html
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I guess this means that Mama's Family will be gone from the "I" Network and CMT will be its new home for the show. I just wonder when the chains to lock the "I" Network will go into effect.
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According to that site it doesn't say that CMT will air it as part of their regular schedule and it also said that it will still air on i.
 
Hey, I liked Mama's Family! That was a funny ass sitcom series!

What ever happened to Ken Berry (Vint Harper)?
Dorothy Lyman (Naomi Harper)? I heard somewhere that she was dead.
Beverly Archer (Iola Boylen)? Archer produced and/or directed several episodes.
Allan Keyser (Bubba Higgins)?
Karin Argoud (Sonya Harper...Vint's daughter from previous marraige)?
Eric Brown (Buzz Harper...Vint's son from previous marraige)?
Dorothy Van (Aunt Effie)? Van also produced and/or directed several episodes. Aunt Effie wasn't a regular character, but appeared quite often.

I believe Argoud and Brown were only in the first season or two of the series.
 
LeftyPunchbag said:
Hey, I liked Mama's Family! That was a funny ass sitcom series!

What ever happened to Ken Berry (Vint Harper)?
Dorothy Lyman (Naomi Harper)? I heard somewhere that she was dead.
Beverly Archer (Iola Boylen)? Archer produced and/or directed several episodes.
Allan Keyser (Bubba Higgins)?
Karin Argoud (Sonya Harper...Vint's daughter from previous marraige)?
Eric Brown (Buzz Harper...Vint's son from previous marraige)?
Dorothy Van (Aunt Effie)? Van also produced and/or directed several episodes. Aunt Effie wasn't a regular character, but appeared quite often.

I believe Argoud and Brown were only in the first season or two of the series.
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Dorothy Van who played Aunt Effie died in 2002. The rest of the cast I believe is still with us.

Ken Berry is pretty much retired now.

Beverly Archer also appeared in the Brady Bunch movie playing Bobby's teacher.

One thing about Mama's Family I always found interesting. In 1990 Carol Burnett spoke to a class at Denver's Colorado Institute Of Art ( her daughter Jody Hamilton was a student there ). Burnett was doing one of those question and answer things with the students. I was sitting in the far back of the audience and the questions directed to Carol were the usual stuff ( her variety show, the suit against the National Enquier, how Vicki Lawrence was discovered, etc...) but I do remember when some student asked her about her thoughts on the then-current Mama's Family episodes.

Well..she HATED them.

At the time I, like everyone else in the audience was shocked. But over the years I have heard that her divorce from Joe Hamilton was quite messy ( they divorced in 1984 which would make it around the same time as the NBC version of Mama ).

I also heard once that Carol Burnett wanted to bring Mama's Family into syndication in the mid 80s after NBC cancelled it but, of course Joe Hamilton beat her to the punch with that.

I do remember when Jody was telling us that her mother was actually jealous at how well the syndicated version of Mama's family was doing in the latter of the 80s compared to the NBC version which included Carol herself making appearances. I guess this would explain why Carol Burnett never appeared in the syndicated version of Mama's Family.

Wish I had a copy of the Colorado Institute of Art/ Carol Burnett Q&A. It was taped and I think it aired on public access cable TV in Denver back in 1990 maybe 1991.
 
Beverly Archer was also a regular on the show Major Dad starring Gerald McRaney. She played a general on the show, I believe.

Dorothy Lyman after Mama's Family went back to All My Children briefly back to the role of Opal that she played before Mama's Family came along and I think played while she was on Mama's Family and the last I heard anything that she played Reba's mother on the show Reba.

A few years back, People Magazine interviewed Eric Brown and it said something about Eric and his wife owning some sort of business and he is no longer in acting.
 
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