Episode
Mama's Family: A Big Hand for Mama
Overview
After nearly being hit by lightning, Mama finds a new outlook on life.
Details
- Series
- Mama's Family
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1987-10-24
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
A Big Hand for Mama is Episode 5 in Season 4 of Mama's Family. It aired on 1987-10-24. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 4: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Vint and Naomi are separated yet living in the same house (and driving Mama crazy in the process).
Episode 6: Flounder's Day
After 50 years, Mama finally gets her chance to sing at Raytown's Founders' Day celebration.After nearly being hit by lightning, Mama finds a new outlook on life.
More episodes from this season
Episode 3: The Key to the Crime
When Vint is accused of being Raytown's "Courteous Crook", Mama and Iola take action to clear his name.
Episode 7: Teacher's Pet
Mama tries to become romantic with her night school teacher.
Episode 2: Zirconias Are a Girl's Best Friend
Mama develops an addiction to online shopping.
Episode 8: Child's Play
Reverend and Mrs. Meechum drop by to ask Thelma if she would mind watching their little Eugene while they visit the shut-ins at the hospital.
Episode 1: Educating Mama
When Bubba has trouble in high school, it's revealed that Mama failed to graduate as well.
Episode 9: Mama Mania
Didi, an old friend of Naomi's and a professional wrestler, talks Naomi into being a last-minute substitute for her ailing tag-team partner for a match. When Mama accidentally knocks Didi out just before the match, Naomi and Mama have to wrestle against Didi's weighty opponents.
Episode 10: Gift Horse
Mama hopes to raise enough to purchase a VCR by selling Iola's gaudy, homemade gifts at a yard sale.
Episode 11: Workman's Holiday
When Mama traumatizes Vinton at work with the "Binky Bunny" lunchbox she made for him when he was a kid, she must find a way to cure him of his trauma before he loses his job.
Episode 12: Mama Sees Red
A man from the State Department asks the Harpers to host a Russian national named Olga for one day as part of "Project Heartland."
Episode 13: A Room with No View
Tired of living in the basement, Vint and Naomi agree to switch rooms with Bubba - pleasing everyone except Mama.