Mama's Family/Mama's Medicine Show

Mama's Medicine Show
Season 6, Episode 1
Airdate	September 23, 1989
Written by	Jim Evering
Directed by	Dave Powers
Produced by	Dave Powers and Neil Lebowitz
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Mama's Family — Season Six

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Mama's Medicine Show is the first episode of the sixth season of Mama's Family, and the one hundred eleventh episode overall.

Starring: Vicki Lawrence Schultz (Thelma Harper)

Also Starring: Ken Berry (Vinton Harper), Dorothy Lyman (Naomi Harper), Beverly Archer (Iola Boyland), Allan Kayser (Bubba Higgins),

Guest Star: Anne Haney (Alberta Meachum)

Plot Overview

Naomi and Vint read in a magazine how it will cost $168,000 dollars to raise their kid. So they set about coming up with a scheme to make some fast money. Just then Bubba comes home feeling bad, and Thelma gives him some of her "Mother Harper's Tonic" and that gives Vint and Naomi an idea. They could sell the tonic and make a fortune. So Naomi gets some bottles from the recycling bin at Food Circus and they start to bottle it. It sells fast and everyone wants more. So Bubba takes it to his swim meet and Thelma takes it with her to the Church Ladies League meeting. Everyone samples some and it's a huge hit as everyone including Thelma and Iola get up and start dancing. Alberta even tells Thelma that she's gonna nominate her for CCL Woman of the Year. Bubba comes home and tells Vint and Naomi about what happened at the swim meet, his team lost every race and they sent the tonic to be analyzed and it came back that it was 35 percent alcohol, which closes down the family's business.