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The Best Episodes of Mama's Family Season 6

Every episode of Mama's Family Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Mama's Family Season 6!

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Thelma Harper and her spinster sister Fran open their home to Thelma's recently divorced son Vinton and his teenage son and daughter. It's quite an adjustment for everyone, especially the cranky, argumentative Thelma.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 1 - Mama's Medicine Show
    8.5/10(88 votes)

    #1 - Mama's Medicine Show

    S6:E1

    After reading about how much it costs to raise a child, Vint and Naomi decide to start a business selling bottles of Mama's mother-in-law's "miracle tonic."

    Director:Dave Powers
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 2 - An Affair to Forget
    7.8/10(80 votes)

    #2 - An Affair to Forget

    S6:E2

    Mama suspects that Vint is having an affair with his new trainee Heather, so she and Iola go to his workplace to investigate.

    Director:Dave Powers
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 3 - Mr. Wrong
    8.1/10(82 votes)

    #3 - Mr. Wrong

    S6:E3

    Mama encourages Iola to find herself a man, but the man she finds turns out to be a domineering blowhard.

    Director:Dave Powers
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 4 - Now Hear This
    8.3/10(84 votes)

    #4 - Now Hear This

    S6:E4

    The Harpers install an intercom so that Naomi will be able to monitor her baby, but Mama uses it to eavesdrop on the family, and vice versa.

    Director:Dave Powers
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 5 - Tri-State's Most Wanted
    7.8/10(80 votes)

    #5 - Tri-State's Most Wanted

    S6:E5

    Mama is attracted to actor Leslie Lemoyne, until she sees him on "Tri-State's Most Wanted" (the local version of America's Most Wanted), and believes that he is the infamous "widow waster".

    Director:Dave Powers
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 6 - Mama Fights Back
    7.8/10(76 votes)

    #6 - Mama Fights Back

    S6:E6

    Mama verbally attacks a radio show's unhelpful consumer advocate, and the station manager offers her his job, with Mama broadcasting from her living room.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:George Mitchell

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  7. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 7 - A Blast From the Past
    8.4/10(91 votes)

    #7 - A Blast From the Past

    S6:E7

    Mama is invited to her junior high school's 50th reunion, but she is reluctant to go because of a false rumor that was spread about her years ago that earned her the nickname "Hotpants"

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 8 - Psychic Pheno-Mama
    7.9/10(78 votes)

    #8 - Psychic Pheno-Mama

    S6:E8

    Vinton and Naomi persuade Mama to have a psychic called "Madame Rita" give everyone readings. At first, Mama is surprised by the psychic's ability, but later sets out to expose the phony medium.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 9 - Take My Mama, Please!
    8.0/10(75 votes)

    #9 - Take My Mama, Please!

    S6:E9

    After heckling a stand-up comedian at the Bigger Jigger, Mama accepts a challenge to do a routine of her own.

    Director:Dave Powers
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 10 - Bubba's House Band
    8.3/10(113 votes)

    #10 - Bubba's House Band

    S6:E10

    Bubba books a band called The Bonecrushers for homecoming, and tells the family that the band will be staying with them. They turn out to be an all-female heavy metal band, and Mama must rein them in.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 11 - Mama Takes Stock
    7.5/10(79 votes)

    #11 - Mama Takes Stock

    S6:E11

    Vinton learns that he is about to lose his job because Kwik Keys is being shut down by the new owners, a corporation called Bernice. When Bubba discovers that an old stock certificate Mama owns is now ten shares of Bernice, she sets out to save Vinton's job.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 12 - War of the Roses
    8.2/10(80 votes)

    #12 - War of the Roses

    S6:E12

    Mama and Iola are preparing for the Crystal Thorn flower contest, and Iola is angry to find that Mama's flowers have cross-pollinated with one of hers, producing a pink-and-white hybrid. At first neither of them wants it, but when floral expert Mayjune Beasley tells Mama that it could win the award, both Iola and Mama claim ownership.

    Director:Dave Powers
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 13 - Mama Takes a Dive
    7.5/10(79 votes)

    #13 - Mama Takes a Dive

    S6:E13

    When Mama slips on a roll of pennies in the bank, the family suggests that she sue the bank. To this end, she hires a sleazy lawyer Settlement Sam and fakes serious injuries.

    Director:Dave Powers
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 14 - Mama Gets Goosed
    8.1/10(91 votes)

    #14 - Mama Gets Goosed

    S6:E14

    Mama's cousin sends her a live goose for her family's Christmas dinner, and everyone except Mama is against the idea of killing and cooking the bird..

    Director:Dave Powers
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 15 - The Big Nap
    7.5/10(79 votes)

    #15 - The Big Nap

    S6:E15

    After watching detective movies on TV for a week, and hearing that Iola's mother is missing, Mama dreams that she is a film noir-style detective hired to find her client's mother.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 16 - Pinup Mama
    8.1/10(82 votes)

    #16 - Pinup Mama

    S6:E16

    While working on a photography project, Bubba makes a picture of a young bikini-clad woman with Mama's head, as a joke. However, this picture is accidentally added to a flyer that is handed out to get elderly men to attend a church dance.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 17 - Guess Who's Going to Dinner
    7.5/10(85 votes)

    #17 - Guess Who's Going to Dinner

    S6:E17

    Vint wins a Mother's Day dinner for two at a North African (Moroccan) restaurant called Abdul's Garden of Eating. As a result, Mama and Naomi fight over which of them Vinton should take.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 18 - Look Who's Breathing
    7.7/10(78 votes)

    #18 - Look Who's Breathing

    S6:E18

    Naomi and Vinton are taking a childbirth class. When Vint is called in to work, Mama has to go to class with Naomi instead of going to the Bingo Bonanza with Iola, so an impatient Mama creates chaos by trying to speed things along and offering her own perspective on the "miracle of birth".

    Director:Dave Powers
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 19 - There Is Nothing Like the Dames
    8.3/10(84 votes)

    #19 - There Is Nothing Like the Dames

    S6:E19

    Vinton and Naomi buy an RV and plan to move to a trailer park; however, they are unable to start the vehicle once it is in the driveway. Meanwhile, Mama is planning to host a fancy backyard luncheon for an snooty society group called the Dames.

    Director:Dave Powers
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Mama's Family Season 6 Episode 20 - Bye-Bye–Baby!
    8.2/10(94 votes)

    #20 - Bye-Bye–Baby!

    S6:E20

    When Naomi is upset about her baby being late, Mama tries to calm her down with a false story about Carl. Mama tells Iola what really happened (both the false and true versions are seen in flashback, with Carl played by Ken Berry). Later that day, Naomi goes into labor and Mama ends up delivering her baby girl, Tiffany Thelma Harper.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"Mama's Medicine Show" is the best rated episode of "Mama's Family" season 6. It scored 8.5/10 based on 88 votes. Directed by Dave Powers and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/23/1989. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "An Affair to Forget".