MAMA MALONE: PILOT {SERIES PREMIERE} (TV)
Summary
Pilot episode in this series about Renata Malone, an Italian widow who hosts a cooking show from her Brooklyn apartment. During the taping of the program, various family members and neighbors drop in, including: Connie, her divorced daughter; Frankie, her grandson, Dino, her lounge-singer brother; Padre Guardino, her elderly priest; and Father Silva, the Padre's young assistant. In this episode, when Frankie is accused of stealing another student's lunch money, Mama prepares a lasagna dish while setting a trap to determine if Frankie is telling her the truth about the incident. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: March 7, 1984 Wednesday 8:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:25:06
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:29785
- GENRE: Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1984
- COMMERCIALS:
Credits
- Richard Lewis … Executive Producer
- Terrence McNally … Producer, Writer
- Paul Bogart … Producer, Director
- John Kander … Theme Music by
- Fred Ebb … Theme Music by
- Andrew Belling … Music by
- Lila Kaye … Cast, Mama Malone
- Randee Heller … Cast, Connie Karamacopolous
- Evan Richards … Cast, Frankie
- Don Amendolia … Cast, Dino Forresti
- Raymond Singer … Cast, the Floor Director
- Ralph Manza … Cast, Padre Guardino
- Richard Yniguez … Cast, Father Silva
- Sam Anderson … Cast, Stanley, the Announcer
- Pendelton Brown … Cast, Ken, the Associate Director
- Joey Jupiter … Cast, Jackie, the Production Assistant
- Mitchell Group … Cast, Harry, the Stage Manager
- Marc Silver … Cast, the Audio Man
- Chris Brice … Cast, the Makeup Artist