Mama’s Family: Santa Mama

Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials

🎄It’s 1986, and Santa looks different after arriving late to the mall due to a flat reindeer.

Unfold that TV Guide you crafted into an angel centerpiece and join us for a semi-festive Christmas episode of “Mama’s Family” that will have you believing in either Santa or ghosts at the end of it.

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🎙 Guest:

Joe Fulton (Christmas Aficionado)

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. “Santa Mama” on the Internet Archive.

2. A Mama’s Family reunion on “Vicki!”

3. Vicki Lawrence sings “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.”

4. Mama’s house was also seen in “Halloween.”

5. Ken Berry (Vinton) as Peter-No-Tail.

6. The cheapest Christmas gifts we got for childhood crushes.

7. The fragility of one-of-a-kind ornaments.

8. “You Are My Sunshine” on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”

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📼 Commercial Break:

Snuggle Fabric Softener Free Christmas Ornament (1986)

Snow in Southtown

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“Mama’s Family” and “Santa Mama” © 1986 Joe Hamilton Productions, Inc.

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.