My Mother the Car: Difference between revisions

In 1965 [[NBC]] put a show on opposite ''[[Combat]]'' and ''[[Rawhide]]'' about the antics of lawyer Dave Crabtree ([[Jerry Van Dyke]] fromwho would later be more famous for ''[[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'''''My Mother (the show)Car''''' 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.

** 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.