This site has been open since August 15, 2003; long-time visitors will know it has undergone many changes since the beginning and has aquired over 87,000 visitors. This site is my tribute to the television sitcom Mama's Family, produced by Joe Hamilton for the NBC Network from 1983 to 1985 and the CBS Network from 1986 to 1990. Mama's Family has been distributed by the Warner Brother's Company since 1989. This site was last updated on June 7th, 2007. Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to webmaster@televisionhits.com.

MAMA'S FAMILY spun off of The Carol Burnett Show and debuted on January 22nd, 1983. Before the show started, The Carol Burnett Show featured a skit called "The Family," which co-star Vicki Lawrence (Thelma Harper) based her show Mama's Family off of. The Harper's were a Southern blue collar family of Raytown, Missouri. The family was headed by Mama (Thelma Harper), a outspoken gray-haired widow who shared her house with her sister Fran, a journalist for the local newspaper. At the start of the show, Vinton, Thelma's son, moved in with kids Buzz and Sonja after his wife Mitzi left him to become a Las Vegas Show Girl. The same year Vinton met trampy and flirty neighbor Naomi and married her. Eunice (Carol Burnett) and Ellen (Betty White) also appeared frequently as Thelma's two daughters. Unfortunately the show was cancelled after 35 episodes on NBC and two year's later CBS started the show in syndication.

In the fall of 1986 Mama's Family returned to television with many changes. Rue McClanahan and Betty White had left the show to pursue careers on NBC's hit show "The Golden Girls," and the rest of the cast was axed to only Mama (Thelma), Vinton and Naomi. Buzz and Sonja went to college, Aunt Fran had passed away, and Euince and her husband, Ed, had moved to Florida. However, two newcomers had joined the cast, Beverly Archer, as Iola Boylen, the prissy next door neighbor and best friend to Thelma, and Allan Kayser as Euince's delinquent son Bubba Higgens. In the spring of 1990, the series last episode featured Naomi and Vinton having their first child, Tiffany Thelma Harper. Naomi and Vinton finally move out of Thelma's house, but only to a trailer sitting on her property. The cast of Mama's Family had a retrospective reunion on Vicki Lawrence's Talk Show called Vicki! in 1994.

Thursday, June 07, 2007 SEASON TWO DVD NEWS!: A recent chat with WWW.TVSHOWSONDVD.COM and Warner Brothers have showed that Mama's Family may be released on DVD if the fans of Mama's Family feel the syndicated edited cuts are good enough for fans. They do not own the rights to the unedited original cuts and they are only allowed to supply the edited cuts. Warner Brothers will not release another set unless fans are willing to buy their version. We need you to sign our official petition in our message board to help generate sub-sequent seasons of Mama's Family on DVD. TVSHOWSONDVD.COM'S Gord Lacey has agreed to help us with the petition and contact Warner Brothers about our petition, isn't that great news! We would all appreciate you to go over to our message board directly and please sign the petition to get Mama's Family Season 2 and subsequent seasons released on DVD, please help make this official petition a success. The ball is in our court, let's not screw this one up. Sign the petition at http://mamasfamilysite.proboards15.com Special Thanks to: TV SHOWS ON DVD WEBSITE Visit our New's Center Archive to see previous headlines!

Monday, January 05, 2004 Welcome, Once Again!: Welcome to the newest and largest Mama's Family source on the net! This site was created on August 15, 2003. This site has just moved to www.televisionhits.com, and will now be updated once again. We are planning to continue finishing the site and adding video, and audio clips. Episode Guide, and more pictures are coming soon. We will soon be the most extensive site for this hit show on the net. Friday, August 15, 2003 New Message Board: We have a new message board for fans of the show to enjoy. Click here to visit our awesome new message board. Please note that only members may post. Registration is free. Any Questions or Concerns? Please Email Me! To view the message board on the menu page, drag down to Site Resources and click on Message Board.

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 We have added two pictures to the photo galleries. Plus we have also started on the cast biography page of Vicki Lawrence. More Coming Soon. Monday, June 07, 2004 We have added 2 pictures to the CBS photo gallery as well as four pictures to Vicki Lawrence's Gallery. The Schedule page has been updated with new pictures since TBS changed their logo and site format, and link. Saturday, May 15, 2004 Lots of updates to report on. We have now included a site search feature onto the main page and site guide page for easier and faster access to what you are looking for. We have also completed Seasons 1-6 detailed episode guides. The Online Request will start once all episode pictures are online for each episode. We have added 15 pictures to the Detailed episode guides, to find out what pictures we uploaded please see the Online Request Update page. We have also added the second season pictures as well as many others to the opening credits gallery! This site will now be updated frequently and is now off its hiatus.