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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 from ''[[Coach]]''), a typically hapless sitcom family man who discovers that his mother has returned from the grave as a 1928 Porter open touring automobile (a Ford Model T modified by the then-ubiquitous George Barris, who also did the [[The Monkees (band)|Monkeemobile]] and the '60s [[Batman (TV series)|Batmobile]]).

 

It (the show) was critically lambasted and caused NBC to be something of a laughing-stock for greenlighting it in the first place. The [[Ratings]] were horrid. (Except in what we now call the young-adult demographic. Back then, they didn't track that sort of thing.) In spite of all that, NBC left the show on for an entire season.

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* [[And Starring]]: Miss Ann Southern

* [[Back from the Dead]]

* [[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.

* [[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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