Mama was a weekly television program which ran on CBS from July 1, 1949 - March 17, 1957. The program (based on the 1948 film I Remember Mama) tells the ongoing story of a loving Norwegian family living in San Francisco in the 1910s. The story is told through the eyes of the older daughter, Katrin Hansen, and each episode was framed by Katrin looking through the pages of the family album and remembering. Mama was sponsored by Maxwell House coffee. CBS (formerly an acronym for Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major television network and radio broadcaster in the United States. ... July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... I Remember Mama is a 1948 film which tells the story of a loving Norwegian family in San Francisco in the 1910s. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... // Events and trends The 1910s represent the culmination of European militarism which had its beginings during the second half of the 19th Century. ... Maxwell House is a brand of coffee. ...

Mama broadcast live on Fridays from 8:00pm - 8:30pm, starring Rosemary Rice as Katrin, veteran stage actor Peggy Wood as "Mama" (Marta Hansen), Judson Laire as Papa Lars Hansen, Dick Van Patten as the older brother Nels Hansen, and—from 1950-1956—Robin Morgan (then a child star; later to become a radical feminist activist and poet) as the younger sister Dagmar Hansen. (Iris Mann briefly played the role in 1949 and Toni Campbell briefly took it up from 1956-1957.) Also featured were Ruth Gates as Aunt Jenny, Carl Frank as Uncle Gunnar Gunnerson, Alice Frost as Aunt Trina Gunnerson, Malcolm Keen (from 1949 to 1951) and Roland Winters (from 1951 to 1952) as Uncle Chris, Kevin Coughlin as T. R. Ryan, and Patty McCormick (from 1953 to 1956) as Ingeborg. Peggy Wood (February 9, 1892 - March 18, 1978) was an American actress of film and television. ... Dick Van Patten (born December 9, 1928 in New York City) is an American actor. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Robin Morgan (born January 3, 1941) is an American radical feminist activist, writer, and editor of Sisterhood is Powerful and . ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ...

The stories typically revolved around family episodes (such as Dagmar's braces, or Nels starting a business, or the children buying presents for Mama's birthday), and eventually drew each of the family members into the resolution of the drama.

Mama was produced and directed first by Ralph Nelson and then by Carol Irwin. Ralph Nelson (August 12, 1916 - December 21, 1987) was an American movie and television director, producer, writer, and actor. ...

In 1956 CBS cancelled Mama, but support from the public brought the show back for a 13 week run from December 1956 to March 1957. 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Template:DecemberCalendar2006 December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Except for this final half-season, when it was filmed, Mama was telecast live, with only kinescope recordings for West Coast broadcasts. No recordings of the episodes, except for the final 13 episodes, survive. The term kinescope originally referred to a type of early television picture tube. ...

Sources

• Classic TV Shows - I Remember Mama
• Mama - The Museum of Broadcast Communications