Here's an NBC sitcom that the network didn't know what to do with.
Mama's Boy was erratically scheduled throughout the 1987-88 season, with no steady spot on the schedule. How then-programming boss Brandon Tartikoff missed the boat on this one, I don't know. I never saw the show.
Given that this came from the Witt-Thomas-Harris production group (Soap, Benson, Golden Girls, etc.), now linked with Touchstone Television as of Golden Girls, Mama's Boy should've been treated better. Nancy Walker (ex-Rhoda, McMillian & Wife), still shilling for Bounty paper towels by this point, was the "Mama" in the title, paired with a clean shaven Bruce Weitz, who came over from Hill Street Blues. Walker had made a couple of appearances on Golden Girls as Angela, the sister of Sophia (Estelle Getty). Tartikoff should've paid attention to Walker's history. Like, say for example, Tim Conway or McLean Stevenson, Walker could not carry a show as a lead (i.e. Blansky's Beauties, The Nancy Walker Show), and it seems someone at the network got cold feet.
Gilmore Box offers the open. Sounds like Take 6 recorded the title song.
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