"Mama" - Mama's Nursery School (50's TV Show)
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"Mama" - Mama's Nursery School (50's TV Show)
- Publication date
- 1955
- Usage
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Topics
- 50's TV, 1950's Television, American History, I Remember Mama,
- Publisher
- CBS Television Network
1955 Episode of the 50's Sitcom/Drama "Mama" (Also known as "I Remember Mama"). This popular show was about a Norway family who moved to America back in the early 20th Century. This episode is titled "Mama's Nursery School".
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Info from Wikipedia:
Mama was a weekly Maxwell House-sponsored CBS television comedy-drama series which ran from July 1, 1949 until March 17, 1957.
Based on the Kathryn Forbes memoir Mama's Bank Account, which inspired the 1944 John Van Druten play and subsequent 1948 film I Remember Mama, it told the ongoing story of a loving Norwegian family living in San Francisco in the 1910s through the eyes of the elder daughter, Katrin Hansen (Rosemary Rice), who was seen looking through the pages of the family album in the opening and closing of each episode.
In addition to veteran stage actress Peggy Wood in the title role, the cast included Judson Laire as Papa, and Dick Van Patten as brother Nels. The youngest child, Dagmar, was portrayed first by Iris Mann, then by Robin Morgan (who later became a radical feminist activist and poet), and finally Toni Campbell. Also featured were Ruth Gates, Carl Frank, Alice Frost, Malcolm Keen, Roland Winters, Kevin Coughlin, and Patty McCormick.
Although earlier incarnations of the material had focused primarily on the relationship between Mama and Katrin, the television series typically dealt with a specific family member's problem and eventually drew all of them into helping with its resolution.
Except for its last half-season, the program aired live, with kinescope recordings prepared for West Coast broadcasts. Consequently, unlike other popular family comedies and dramas of the 1950s and 1960s that have been rerun over the years, it is unfamiliar to later generations of viewers, although reruns have been shown on at least one public access channel.
In 1956, the network cancelled Mama, with the final episode airing July 27, 1956. However, public demand returned the show to the air for 13 additional episodes broadcast from December 1956 to March 1957.
Director-producer Ralph Nelson, himself of Norwegian descent, went on to direct the film Lilies of the Field.
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Info from Wikipedia:
Mama was a weekly Maxwell House-sponsored CBS television comedy-drama series which ran from July 1, 1949 until March 17, 1957.
Based on the Kathryn Forbes memoir Mama's Bank Account, which inspired the 1944 John Van Druten play and subsequent 1948 film I Remember Mama, it told the ongoing story of a loving Norwegian family living in San Francisco in the 1910s through the eyes of the elder daughter, Katrin Hansen (Rosemary Rice), who was seen looking through the pages of the family album in the opening and closing of each episode.
In addition to veteran stage actress Peggy Wood in the title role, the cast included Judson Laire as Papa, and Dick Van Patten as brother Nels. The youngest child, Dagmar, was portrayed first by Iris Mann, then by Robin Morgan (who later became a radical feminist activist and poet), and finally Toni Campbell. Also featured were Ruth Gates, Carl Frank, Alice Frost, Malcolm Keen, Roland Winters, Kevin Coughlin, and Patty McCormick.
Although earlier incarnations of the material had focused primarily on the relationship between Mama and Katrin, the television series typically dealt with a specific family member's problem and eventually drew all of them into helping with its resolution.
Except for its last half-season, the program aired live, with kinescope recordings prepared for West Coast broadcasts. Consequently, unlike other popular family comedies and dramas of the 1950s and 1960s that have been rerun over the years, it is unfamiliar to later generations of viewers, although reruns have been shown on at least one public access channel.
In 1956, the network cancelled Mama, with the final episode airing July 27, 1956. However, public demand returned the show to the air for 13 additional episodes broadcast from December 1956 to March 1957.
Director-producer Ralph Nelson, himself of Norwegian descent, went on to direct the film Lilies of the Field.
- Addeddate
- 2008-02-18 03:04:40
- Closed captioning
- no
- Color
- Black and White
- Ia_orig__runtime
- Approx 26 Minutes
- Identifier
- Mama1955
- Run time
- Approx 26 Minutes
- Sound
- sound
- Year
- 1955
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Reviews
Reviewer:
jvsoriano
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August 3, 2012
Subject: Mama's Nursery School
Subject: Mama's Nursery School
Mama’s Nursery School aired on
CBS from July 1, 1949 to March 17, 1957.
It is based the book Mama’s Bank Account, which inspired a play and a film.
I really like this episode,
a good work of early tv. I
especially enjoy the children, they make it that much more pleasurable to watch.
CBS from July 1, 1949 to March 17, 1957.
It is based the book Mama’s Bank Account, which inspired a play and a film.
I really like this episode,
a good work of early tv. I
especially enjoy the children, they make it that much more pleasurable to watch.
Reviewer:
yuma
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June 10, 2011
Subject: Goldenage
Subject: Goldenage
What a great look into the Goldenage of TV. This one is one of the best. It works on your heart. Comedy, Drama, Soap, what ever I Will Always Remmeber Mama!
Reviewer:
Searchlight
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June 1, 2009
Subject: Kathryn Forbes
Subject: Kathryn Forbes
This TV show was based on the movie 'I Remember Mama,'which was based on the book 'Mama's Bank Account', written by Kathryn Forbes.It is about
her family living in San Francisco in the early
1900s.
As a side-note,Kathryn Forbes is buried at Holy
Cross Cemetery in Colma,California.I found her grave.
I would recommend the movie or book to anyone interested in how our civilization once soared,
based on virtue and decency.And now is collapsing
due to perversion and selfishness.
her family living in San Francisco in the early
1900s.
As a side-note,Kathryn Forbes is buried at Holy
Cross Cemetery in Colma,California.I found her grave.
I would recommend the movie or book to anyone interested in how our civilization once soared,
based on virtue and decency.And now is collapsing
due to perversion and selfishness.
Reviewer:
Retro_Saiyan
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July 14, 2008
Subject: I Like It!
Subject: I Like It!
Worth downloading!
Reviewer:
Robin_1990
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April 22, 2008
Subject: But *I* Uploaded This
Subject: But *I* Uploaded This
Very good episode of the critically acclaimed 50's TV series "I Remember Mama".
Good example of an early dramedy.
Good example of an early dramedy.
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