Mama Malone

Mama Malone
Starring	Lila Kaye Randee Heller Evan Richards Don Amendolia
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Jack Barry-Dan Enright Productions Columbia Pictures Television
Distributor	Sony Pictures Television
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	March 7 – July 21, 1984

Mama Malone is an American sitcom that briefly aired on CBS from March 7, 1984 to July 21, 1984. The star was Lila Kaye, an English actress with credits in everything from Shakespearean stage productions to ethnic TV and film roles.

The series' main character was Renate Malone (surname rhymed with "baloney"), an Italian-American woman married to an Irish-American man (never seen in the series), thus the unusual pronunciation of her married name. She was the hostess of a home cooking show called "Cooking with Mama Malone" that was telecast live from her fourth-floor apartment in a Brooklyn tenement. Each episode began with her instructing her viewers to chop onions no matter what the recipe might be, and the recipes never were completed because a parade of characters kept popping in to interrupt her and eat up the show's time.

Initially, the show was scheduled to premiere in the fall of 1982, but was pushed back a season and a half. The series was reminiscent of another ethnically-based series, "The Goldbergs," the iconic radio and TV show written by and starring Gertrude Goldberg as a New York City resident of European Jewish descent that played on ethno-religious neighborhoods populated by immigrant groups. Among the good-natured stereotypes on "Mama Malaone" was Padre Guradiano, an Italian-American Catholic priest who wound up gasping for breath each time he climbed the steep stairs to her apartment.

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