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In 1965 [[NBC]] put a show on opposite ''[[Combat]]'' and ''[[Rawhide]]'' about the antics of lawyer Dave Crabtree ([[Jerry Van Dyke]],
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* [[And Starring]]: Miss Ann Southern
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* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Averted, surprisingly -- although practically no one remembers it today, Porter was a real automotive manufacturer active between about 1900 and 1925. However the actual car used in the show was, as noted above, a Ford Model T (a former hotrod, in fact!) that had been heavily customized.
* [[Dead Person Conversation]]
* [[Old Shame]]: [[James L. Brooks]] wrote two episodes before hitting it big. Naturally, he doesn't boast about his involvement in this. (A ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' [[DVD Commentary]] joked that mentioning said involvement around the studio is cause for being fired.)
** The co-creator of the show was Allan Burns, who went on to create ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' with Brooks. If you look closely at the program grids hanging on the Station manager's wall in ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' you'll see that WJM showed ''My Mother the Car'' quite frequently.
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* [[Temporal Paradox]]: How does a dead mother get reincarnated into a car that ''already exists?''
** Presumably, by "Reincarnated", the writers meant "Got stuck in a car and possessed it."
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