Roger Beatty

The Harper matriarch meddling and peddling her homespun wisdom to anyone within earshot. She ghosts as an advice columnist for her sister, Fran, and helps spring cousin Gert (Imogene Coca) from a retirement community after livening up a birthday party there. Mama takes her lumps, especially when she s clocked by a pot while making gooseberry jam with daughters Eunice (Carol Burnett) and Ellen (Betty White). But you can t keep the old lady down for...

From the spin-off sketch of the Carol Burnett Show comes the story of a squabbling family in the Midwestern blue collar suburb of Raytown. The noisy bunch is headed by Mama, a buxom, opinionated, gray-haired widow with a sharp tongue.