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The story of the relationship between a man and his mother, the latter having been reincarnated as a 1928 Porter automobile.
Chris Hayward, Allan Burns
Gladys Crabtree
Cindy Crabtree
Dave Crabtree
Barbara Crabtree
September 14, 1965 • 30m
Lawyer Dave Crabtree's troubles begin with the purchase of a decrepit 1928 Porter that claims through the radio to be his mother. Wife, Barbara doesn't want the old wreck but it has an overwhelming appeal for Captain Manzini, a very persistent antique car collector.
September 21, 1965 • 30m
Dave fears for his mother's safety when car strippers are reported in the neighborhood.
September 28, 1965 • 30m
As Dave drives up the mountains, Mother gets higher and higher from the alcohol in her antifreeze.
October 5, 1965 • 30m
When Dave neglects to set the parking break after parking on a hill, Mother rolls into an open van that is bound for Mexico.
October 12, 1965 • 30m
Dave's mother badgers him into patching up the quarrel between the battling newlywed couple who lives next door.
October 19, 1965 • 30m
In a desperate effort to get the car away from Dave, Captain Manzini resorts to: Operation Unscrupulous, replacing the car with an exact replica.
October 26, 1965 • 30m
Dave gets back at his neighbors who are petitioning him to get rid of his antique eyesore by starring the car in a TV commercial.
November 2, 1965 • 30m
Captain Manzini goads Dave into racing the car against England's foremost distance walker with Mother as the stakes.
November 9, 1965 • 30m
Dave's mother is tired of spending night after night in a dark garage so she tries to get Dave to by her a TV set.
November 16, 1965 • 30m
Dave's mother and the rest of his family all want air conditioners. So to handle the expense, Dave must land the account of high living Franklyn Hotchkiss.
November 23, 1965 • 30m
Mother tells Dave how to impress two stiffnecked council members who are interviewing prospects for judgeship in the domestic relations court.
November 30, 1965 • 30m
Dave's mother wants to celebrate her birthday by seeing a surf movie featuring her favorite actor, at a chilly open-air theater.
December 7, 1965 • 30m
Dave hears that Captain Manzini is dying but Mother warns him that Captain Manzini is up to something.
December 14, 1965 • 30m
Dave's mother in-law arrives for a visit and it's soon apparent that there is one mother too many on the scene.
December 21, 1965 • 30m
Mother is furious when she learns that Dave intends to let Barbara choose her own Christmas present.
December 28, 1965 • 30m
After being married for 8 years, Barbara and Dave decide to go on a honeymoon. However, Barbara's mother, an astrology nut, warns them of impending danger.
January 4, 1966 • 30m
A collision with a truck leaves Mother with amnesia and Dave with a problem, how to bring back a car's memory.
January 11, 1966 • 30m
Captain Manzini's uncle Louie, the head of a secret organization called DURC, says his hypnotic drug will make Dave agreeable to any request such as selling Mother.
January 18, 1966 • 30m
Captain Manzini offers Dave one last chance to sell his antique car before using a molecular compressor to shrink it to the size of a small toy.
January 25, 1966 • 30m
When the housework gets Barbara down, Dave surprises her by hiring a maid who's unbearably efficient.
February 1, 1966 • 30m
While driving the kids to camp, Dave is stopped by a sheriff who asks him for his driver's license and discovers that it has expired.
February 8, 1966 • 30m
How can a car prevent a murder? That's what Mother has to figure out after she overhears three thugs plot the assassination of a visiting dignitary.
February 15, 1966 • 30m
Mr. Kroot, the postman, know two thing about Dave. He saw Dave cementing the garage floor and also heard him say something about his mother not complaining anymore. So Kroot concludes that Dave has done his old lady in.
February 22, 1966 • 30m
Captain Manzini transforms a Swedish sailor into a lookalike, talkalike replica of Dave and smuggles him into the Crabtree household.
March 1, 1966 • 30m
The future looks mighty bleak for Dave's mother when Barbara wins a new limousine in a supermarket drawing.
March 8, 1966 • 30m
It's mutual love at first sight for Mother and wealthy Conrad Byron who offers to trade him limousine and chauffeur for Dave's car.
March 15, 1966 • 30m
Prudish building owner, Henry Heckendorn asks Dave to help him try to close the Greek Grotto, a notorious night club but Dave's mother suspects Heckendorn's motives.
March 22, 1966 • 30m
Dave returns from work too exhausted to think straight and he accidentally lets it slip that the car is really his mother.
March 29, 1966 • 30m
Dave's mother allows the children to think that she like, Aladdin's lamp, can grant any wish.
April 5, 1966 • 30m
A gun totting jewel thief and his moll are using the Crabtree house as a hideout.
