Mama's Family: Harper vs. Harper
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm, Wednesday, January 7 on WNYW Catchy Comedy (5.5)
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Harper vs. Harper
Season 2, Episode 18
Mama and Naomi (Vicki Lawrence, Dorothy Lyman) battle in court after Naomi's vacuum cleaner burns Mama's rug. Judge: Michael Constantine. Vint: Ken Berry.
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1984
English
Comedy
Sitcom
Cast & Crew
Vicki Lawrence
(Actor)
.. Mama Thelma Harper
Ken Berry
(Actor)
.. Vint Harper
Dorothy Lyman
(Actor)
.. Naomi Oates Harper
Michael Constantine
(Actor)
.. Judge
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Did You Know..
Vicki Lawrence
(Actor)
.. Mama Thelma Harper
Born:
March 26, 1949
Birthplace: Inglewood, California, United States
Birthplace: Inglewood, California, United States
Trivia:
Comedian Vicki Lawrence got her big break in show business with a prominent role on the 70's sketch comedy series The Carol Burnette Show. The California native was particularly popular for her recurring character of "Mama," which earned her a successful spin-off, the sitcom Mama's Family, which ran from 1986 to 1990. She would go on to also enjoy runs on shows like Hannah Montana, and also had a career as a successful singer, reaching number one in 1973 with the song "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia".
Ken Berry
(Actor)
.. Vint Harper
Born:
November 03, 1933
Trivia:
Actor/dancer Ken Berry was brought to Broadway as a member of the Billy Barnes revue. His early TV work included the recurring role of Woody the bellhop on The Ann Sothern Show (1959-60). In 1965, Berry was cast in his most celebrated TV role: bumbling Cavalry captain Wilton Parmenter on F Troop (1965-67). When Andy Griffith decided to leave his highly rated TV sitcom in 1968, the series' title was changed to Mayberry RFD and Berry was cast in the central role of town-councillor Sam Jones. CBS' peremptory cancellation of Mayberry in 1971 left Berry in a financial bind, compelling him to accept a hosting stint on a doomed-from-the-start variety series, Ken Berry's WOW (1972). More recently, Berry has been seen as Vint Harper on the well-distributed Vicki Lawrence sitcom Mama's Family (1983-1989). For many years, Ken Berry was married to dancer/comedienne Jackie Joseph, of Little Shop of Horrors fame.
Dorothy Lyman
(Actor)
.. Naomi Oates Harper
Born:
April 18, 1947
Michael Constantine
(Actor)
.. Judge
Born:
May 22, 1927
Trivia:
Though frequently cast in Jewish roles, actor Michael Constantine was actually of Greek extraction. The son of a steel worker, Constantine studied acting with such prominent mentors as Howard DaSilva. The prematurely balding Constantine was playing character roles on and off Broadway in his mid-twenties (he was the Darrow counterpart in the original production of Compulsion), supplementing his income as a night watchman and shooting-gallery barker. In 1959, slightly weary of being ignored by callous Broadway producers and casting directors, Constantine appeared in his first film, The Last Mile (1959), thereby launching a cinematic career that has endured into the mid-1990s. Michael Constantine is perhaps best known for his extensive TV work, notably his four-season (1969-1974) stint as long-suffering high school principal Seymour Kaufman on Room 222 and his starring appearance as night-court magistrate Matthew J. Sirota on the brief 1976 sitcom Sirota's Court.
