5.1/1016 votesLoading...#1 - The Incredible Shrinking Car
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/18/1966
Captain Manzini offers Dave one last chance to sell his antique car before using a molecular compressor to shrink it to the size of a small toy.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: Chris Hayward
5.3/1019 votesLoading...#2 - I'm Through Being a Nice Guy
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1965
In a desperate effort to get the car away from Dave, Captain Manzini resorts to: Operation Unscrupulous, replacing the car with an exact replica.
Director: N/A
Writer: George Kirgo
5.3/1013 votesLoading...#3 - Hey Lady, Your Slip Isn't Showing
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1965
Dave's mother in-law arrives for a visit and it's soon apparent that there is one mother too many on the scene.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.3/1013 votesLoading...#4 - Goldporter
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/11/1966
Captain Manzini's uncle Louie, the head of a secret organization called DURC, says his hypnotic drug will make Dave agreeable to any request such as selling Mother.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.4/1013 votesLoading...#5 - The Captain Manzini Grand Prix
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1965
Captain Manzini goads Dave into racing the car against England's foremost distance walker with Mother as the stakes.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chris Hayward
5.6/1018 votesLoading...#6 - The Blabbermouth
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 3/22/1966
Dave returns from work too exhausted to think straight and he accidentally lets it slip that the car is really his mother.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: James L. Brooks
5.7/1016 votesLoading...#7 - Absorba the Greek
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/15/1966
Prudish building owner, Henry Heckendorn asks Dave to help him try to close the Greek Grotto, a notorious night club but Dave's mother suspects Heckendorn's motives.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.1/1013 votesLoading...#8 - An Unreasonable Facsimile
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/22/1966
Captain Manzini transforms a Swedish sailor into a lookalike, talkalike replica of Dave and smuggles him into the Crabtree household.
Director: N/A
Writer: Arnold Margolin
6.4/1025 votesLoading...#9 - The De-Fenders
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1965
Dave fears for his mother's safety when car strippers are reported in the neighborhood.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: Chris Hayward
6.7/1038 votesLoading...#10 - Come Honk Your Horn
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1965
Lawyer Dave Crabtree's troubles begin with the purchase of a decrepit 1928 Porter that claims through the radio to be his mother. Wife, Barbara doesn't want the old wreck but it has an overwhelming appeal for Captain Manzini, a very persistent antique car collector.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: Chris Hayward
6.7/1019 votesLoading...#11 - Lassie, I Mean Mother, Come Home
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1965
When Dave neglects to set the parking break after parking on a hill, Mother rolls into an open van that is bound for Mexico.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/1016 votesLoading...#12 - A Riddler on the Roof
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/8/1966
How can a car prevent a murder? That's what Mother has to figure out after she overhears three thugs plot the assassination of a visiting dignitary.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: N/A
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#13 - Shine On, Shine On, Honeymoon
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 12/28/1965
After being married for 8 years, Barbara and Dave decide to go on a honeymoon. However, Barbara's mother, an astrology nut, warns them of impending danger.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: Chris Hayward
7.2/1022 votesLoading...#14 - What Makes Auntie Freeze
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1965
As Dave drives up the mountains, Mother gets higher and higher from the alcohol in her antifreeze.
Director: Sidney Miller
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
7.3/1015 votesLoading...#15 - You Can't Get There From Here
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/1/1966
While driving the kids to camp, Dave is stopped by a sheriff who asks him for his driver's license and discovers that it has expired.
Director: N/A
Writer: Arnold Margolin
7.4/1013 votesLoading...#16 - For Whom the Horn Honks
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1965
Dave hears that Captain Manzini is dying but Mother warns him that Captain Manzini is up to something.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: George Kirgo
7.4/1014 votesLoading...#17 - I'd Rather Do it Myself, Mother
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/25/1966
When the housework gets Barbara down, Dave surprises her by hiring a maid who's unbearably efficient.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1019 votesLoading...#18 - Desperate Minutes
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/5/1966
A gun totting jewel thief and his moll are using the Crabtree house as a hideout.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1014 votesLoading...#19 - Many Happy No-Returns
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/21/1965
Mother is furious when she learns that Dave intends to let Barbara choose her own Christmas present.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1014 votesLoading...#20 - My Son, the Criminal
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/15/1966
Mr. Kroot, the postman, know two thing about Dave. He saw Dave cementing the garage floor and also heard him say something about his mother not complaining anymore. So Kroot concludes that Dave has done his old lady in.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: N/A
7.5/1015 votesLoading...#21 - It Might as Well Be Spring as Not
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/8/1966
It's mutual love at first sight for Mother and wealthy Conrad Byron who offers to trade him limousine and chauffeur for Dave's car.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: James L. Brooks
7.6/1024 votesLoading...#22 - Burned at the Steak
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1965
Dave's mother badgers him into patching up the quarrel between the battling newlywed couple who lives next door.
Director: N/A
Writer: Arnold Margolin
7.6/1016 votesLoading...#23 - I Remember Mama, Why Can't You Remember Me?
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/4/1966
A collision with a truck leaves Mother with amnesia and Dave with a problem, how to bring back a car's memory.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: Arnold Margolin
7.7/1013 votesLoading...#24 - And Leave the Drive-In to Us
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1965
Dave's mother wants to celebrate her birthday by seeing a surf movie featuring her favorite actor, at a chilly open-air theater.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1015 votesLoading...#25 - Over the Hill to the Junkyard
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/1/1966
The future looks mighty bleak for Dave's mother when Barbara wins a new limousine in a supermarket drawing.
Director: Rod Amateau
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of My Mother the Car
Every episode of My Mother the Car ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of My Mother the Car!
The story of the relationship between a man and his mother, the latter having been reincarnated as a 1928 Porter automobile.
Genres:ComedySci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:NBC
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Incredible Shrinking Car" is the worst rated episode of "My Mother the Car". It scored 5.1/10 based on 16 votes. Directed by Rod Amateau and written by Chris Hayward, it aired on 1/18/1966. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "I'm Through Being a Nice Guy".