What Appliances did Mrs. Harper (Momma) Have on Momma's Family?

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Thankfully TBS runs one of my all time favourite comedies in the morning, "Mommma's Family", and while watching this morning noticed they don't show much of Mrs.Harper's kitchen despite all the time spent in there. IIRC "Momma" had a different kitchen when it was a sketch on the Carol Burnett show. Think she had a Maytag washer and dryer and maybe range?

Just as an aside, always liked the CB show sketches slightly better, just to see Eunice and Momma go at each other. Not to mention Tim Conway's "slow" character that kept calling Mrs.Harper "Mother Harper". As in "Howdy Do, Mother Harper". If I only knew mid-west familes were so much fun!

Launderess
 
Momma's Family

Actually a LOT of scenes were shot in the kitchen. Didn't watch the show consistently, but I know you could see the washer and dryer and rangem and I seem to remember a pink bottom freezer refrigerator. Things may have changed during the run of the show, it ran for a long time in first run syndication.
 
Re: Mama's Family Appliances:

As far as I remember from the times that I've watched the show, not only in it's original Broadcasting, but in Re-Run's, they've always had a Early to Mid 1960's White Kenmore Washer and Dryer, Late 1950 or Early 1960 Pink GE Portable Top-Load Dishwasher. I believe that the Pink Refrigerator was either a GE or Frigidaire Bottom-Freezer, probably around the same years, but I'm not real sure about the Stove, other than I think it was a White Gas Stove, but I don't know the Brand. I would guess maybe a Gaffer's and Sattler, Wedgewood, or Viking. I couldn't think of any other older Brand's and I'm not even sure how old Viking would be, as far as having Residential Stoves.

So, what do I win for at least getting 4/5th's of the Appliances hopefully correct?

Peace and Happiness, Steve
 
Hmmm. Haven't seen the show in a while, but I think the bottom-freezer fridge was a Sears Coldspot. I'm pretty sure I saw that funky "SR" logo on the front.
Was it turquoise?

veg
 
Thelma

Sacto was right about most the appliances in Thelma "Momma" Harper's kitchen though he actually only got 3/5 because Thelmas fridge was indeed a Coldspot. The Mobile Maid only appeared in her Kitchen in the NBC or as I call them "Aunt Fran episodes" (Aunt Fran was played by Rue "Blanche Deauveraux" McClanahan), all the other appliances stayed the same in the syndicated version. The show only lasted one year on NBC and then was brought back in sydication in 1986. By that time Rue was doing Golden Girls so Aunt Fran was killed off and Bubba, Eunice and Ed's son gets out of reform school and moves into Fran's room when Ed and Eunice move to Florida and don't give Bubba the new address. The syndicated show are the ones with Iola Boylan, Thelmas neighbor across the street. The syndicates version ran from 1986 to 1989 or 90 I can't remember exactaly.
PAT COFFEY
 
Bubba

Hmm, can't imagine anyone not wanting to give Bubba their address! A few sandwiches short of a picnic basket, but a fine young man none the less. I'd have thought Naomi would go after him instead of Vinton, but guess 1980's morals would have been shocked by a May/September relationship such as that.

Remember one episode Thelma bought a HUGE freezer, but her husband Carl (this was in flashbacks when Thelma was younger and not yet widowed), didn't get a job, so IIRC it had to go back.

Thanks everyone for your replies, know some think CB and "Moma's Family" corny, but it was good clean comedy fun. The sort of program we children and our parents could sit down to watch after Sunday supper.

Launderess
 
here is another bit of trivia...

3 of the Golden Girls already new each other before they worked together on the Golden Girls. Bea Arthur and Rue McClannahan worked together on Maude and Rue and Betty White worked together on Mama's Family. Estelle Getty was the only new comer to the show and actually is the youngest of the 4 actresses on the show. PAT COFFEY
 
Golden Girls Dirt

By all accounts Bea, Rue and perhaps Estelle "detest" Betty White. Don't know what Betty did or maybe she was just too much "Sue Ann Nivens" for the other gals but they couldn't wait for the final season to see the back of her. This is one of the reasons given why there never has been a Golden Girls reunion show.

Best "Ellen" parting shot to Eunice on "Mama's Family"

Eunice is going on about her childhood pet rabbit "Fluffy", and after destroying a box of fine china and a Tiffany lamp (belonged to a deceased aunt), that Moma gave Ellen, she quips.

"One of these days sister, their going to put you away, and I'll be more than glad to sign the papers. Oh yes, about your rabbit "Fluffy"; that wasn't fried chicken we had for dinner that night"!

L.
 
Where did youhear that about the GG's

That is news to me ecspecially since I have heard Betty White talk more than once about the other Golden Girls and she always was very nice and payed them nice compliments.
PAT COFFEY
 
If any of you get out Las Vegas way, or down to Laughlin, "Mama" may be at a casino showroom near you. Vicki Lawrence has taken her two woman show on the road here. And it's very funny. You get about 45 minutes or so of Vicki and then Mama. As it's for an adult audience it does get a bit racy, but still something you could take a parent or mature kids and see. She generally plays at the Orleans or Suncoast here.
 
I had a HUGE crush on Bubba! :)

That was a fun show. I had always thought the fridge was a Kelvinator, but I seem to recall now some of the Sears ones had similar handles, so maybe it was a Sears.
 
Ellen

So they killed off Aunt Fran,, Rue's character, how did they write out Ellen, Betty's character, so SHE could go onto Golden Girls
 
Golden Girls

Ellen was never written out because she only showed up on a rare occasion unlike Aunt Fran who was in every episode since she lived in the Harper house. FYI Vinton's kids Buzz and Sonja were written out by having them go live with their mom in Las Vegas (she became a showgirl when she left Vinton).

LAUNDRESS: Wow!!!! that's an eye opener did you read that in a magazine article or did you hear her say that in an interview? The reason I ask is I would like to get a copy of the article or the interview.
PAT COFFEY
 
I always thought the refrigerator was a Kelvinator too. My grandmother's Kelvinator had a handle just like that, as well as the chrome trim around the perimeter of the face of the doors. The badge on the door of my grandmother's had a big forward-slanting "K" on it, which could sort of look like the funky Sears "SR" logo from a distance. Or I might be mistaken--it's been awhile since I've seen Mama's Family. I don't know if her range was ACTUALLY a Hotpoint, but I do remember an episode where she put a turkey under its tent of foil and said something like, "Off you go to camp Hotpoint" as she put it in the oven.

T.
 

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