| Mama | |
|---|---|
&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Mama_(TV_series)_cast.jpg) The original cast | |
| Genre | Comedy drama[1] |
| Based on | Mama's Bank Account |
| Written by | Frank Gabrielson and others |
| Starring | Peggy Wood Judson Laire Rosemary Rice Dick Van Patten |
| Theme music composer | Edvard Grieg |
| Opening theme | Holberg Suite |
| Ending theme | The Last Spring |
| Composer | Billy Nalle |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 8 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Ralph Nelson Carol Irwin |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBS |
| Release | July 1, 1949 – March 17, 1957 |
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Mama is a weekly CBS Television comedy-drama series that ran from July 1, 1949 until March 17, 1957.[2] The series was based on the 1943 novel Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes, which was also adapted for the John Van Druten play (1944) and the subsequent film I Remember Mama (1948).[3] It told the ongoing story of a loving Norwegian family living in San Francisco in the 1910s as seen through the eyes of the elder daughter, Katrin Hansen (Rosemary Rice). At the start of each episode, Katrin would be shown looking through the pages of the family album, with the opening narration:
This old album makes me remember so many things in the past. San Francisco and the house on Steiner Street where I was born. It brings back memories of my cousins, aunts and uncles; all the boys and girls I grew up with. And I remember my family as we were then. My big brother Nels, my little sister Dagmar, and of course, Papa. But most of all, when I look back to those days so long ago, most of all, I remember ... Mama.[citation needed]
The show was originally broadcast live from CBS Studio 41 above the 42nd Street waiting room in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal[3] and was sponsored by Maxwell House and Post Cereal.
- ^ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (2007). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present (9 ed.). New York: Random House Publishing. p. 842. ISBN 978-0-345-49773-4. Retrieved 2024-06-07.
- ^ Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Watson-Guptill Publications. p. 278. ISBN 978-0823083152. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
- ^ a b Slotnik, Daniel E. (2012-08-22). "Rosemary Rice, Oldest Daughter of TV's 'Mama,' Dies at 87". New York Times. Retrieved 2012-08-26.