I remember watching this with my parents in 1969 when I was 9. My father was a big Eve Arden fan, and my mother, being Italian, loved Kay Ballard's character. I loved the women's fashions back then; they were so bright and colorful! Almost every 1960s-early-1970s TV show concerned the generation gap; (those dirty Hippies! lol) and the new, hip-n-happenin', Mod, far out times! It was so exciting and fun, although I knew, even then, that I would never be cool enough to say "Groovy!" *HOW I MISS THOSE DAYS!*
Ballard and Arden were perfectly matched in their comic abilities. You won't see this kind of acting power again till Arthur, Getty, McClanahan and White take the stage.
Who the hell said vaudeville was dead. I watched these episodes when they originally came out. This is still down right funny. Always laughed when Kay would bite her fist Italian style when she was mad at Roger. To all the haters who think these shows are dumb, they were clean and alot funnier than alot of the junk that passes for entertainment today. That's why I cancelled my cable, thank God for UA-cam where yesterday lives again.
I watched this show when it came out. Loved it when Eve would say, "We've got to think of something else for you to call me," whenever Jerry would address her as Mother Hubbard.
I watched this show in syndication, was about five or six, thought it was funny then. But now I really see the theater influence of the actors. Love these people though, brings back great memories for me.
@dakotahstr When I was growing up in Toronto, we got it on the American networks that were broadcast over the border. It didn't run for long, but it was wonderful -- especially Eve Arden and Kay Ballard working off each other!
An "I Love Lucy" script written by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's writers starring Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard! LMAO. But this was still a great show. It's a shame it never did too well in the ratings. I always liked it.
dotcomguy79, Eve Arden was marvelous. Like Cary Grant, she had a wisecracking character and personae she carried from one performance to the next whether it was radio, movies or television, and she went from success to success. I don't know why she doesn't have the same degree of following as others, perhaps because she played against others so well as opposed to Lucille Ball or Gracie Allen who were better known as personalities unto themselves, though both were tightly tied to their straight man husbands.
It's a really good show. In many ways it is the same show as "I Love Lucy." The secret sauce that helped make both shows a success was Desi Arnaz and the writing team from "I Love Lucy," Madelyn Pugh Davis and Bob Carroll. There was something missing in the subsequent Lucy incarnations, e.g., "Here's Lucy," and I suspect it is their absence from those Desi Arnaz productions that made the difference. If you add the set-up, chemistry and backstage talent of "The Mothers-in-Law" to the comic performance genius of Lucille Ball you get "I Love Lucy" again.
"I Love Lucy" re-tread! Thanx for the post...great middle-of-the-pack sit-com from the sixties...these shows...at their worst, are still better than the garbage that they call sit-coms today...except for "Modern Family"!!!
igluver15, there are incredible shows today and it is practically a second golden age of television, but none of them are sitcoms or on network TV as this was. The classic farcical sitcom, perhaps one of the last and best being "Frasier," has all but vanished. Also, the market has become so splintered that this show was probably seen by more people on its worst rated broadcast than the best rated episodes of shows on today.
Good. I barely remember this from the 60s. Basically, stellar acting, tight scripts.Almost exactly like I love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and the Flintstones. Couple argues, gets back together.
I notice many of the actors had that very theatrical exaggerated delivery for T.V. in the 60's & 70's. Maybe it had something to do with the sound systems back then. I was very little when this first aired but I remember the reruns. This was great T.V. when you're a kid & don't know much. It was nice to look back though.
Another poster remarked how much this show was like "I Love Lucy." Other than that, it was pretty good; the casting was quite inspired and they did try to make the show around the personalities, at least to a degree.
I don't think even one person spelled Kaye's name correctly. She was wonderful, and admitted in a very late interview, although it seemed everyone knew her, she wasn't a star. She was to me.
Bob Carroll, Jr. and Madelyn Davis, who were the "architects" of "I LOVE LUCY" (and wrote for Lucy's radio show, "MY FAVORITE HUSBAND", before that), also created and wrote this series as well. Desi knew the value of great writers, and also knew what great "domestic" comedy scripts Bob and Madelyn could come up with...
My sisters played the twins! Kay used to shout "my babies" each day the girls showed up on the set. For 30 seconds only total filming time per day. Q: I or no one in the whole family knows where any footage is these days, does anyone have access to copies of the Mother's In Law with the babies? If so please message me & upload if possible. I believe it was the first few episodes in season II when they were born, and ran to the season's end, I believe when the show was cancelled. Eve Arden was a doll as was Kay Ballard.
I love old shows like this however, this was one dumb show although I didn't mind it when I was ten years old. But now?...... I think the actors were used to acting on Broadway because they have a very theatrical and loud delivery style. This show was beneath the talents of these fine actors. Thanks for sharing though!
Hmm, don't agree, at age 60 I think it holds up, largely due to the appealing cast. Very silly, yes, and quite broad by today's standards, but still made me laugh
I agree. We're not witnessing great writing here, but we are watching Eve and Kaye act it out of the park. Their performances are what makes this show memorable.
There's always many reasons a show doesn't make it and it's not usually because a show was just no good. This isn't the funniest show ever but pretty good I think compared to other shows from the same era.
The show failed because the actor who played Roger demanded a huge pay increase for the second season and CBS refused to agree to a budget increase for another season. Everyone else on the the show agreed to accept the same salary to keep the production running, including Desi Arnaz, who begged him not to kill the show. He refused to back down and the show was cancelled.
Hmm, while I'm the first to agree Roger C. Carmel was vastly better than Richard Deacon, I don't agree the show depended quite that heavily on the Roger character. Thought there must have been something else...?
I remember watching this with my parents in 1969 when I was 9. My father was a big Eve Arden fan, and my mother, being Italian, loved Kay Ballard's character. I loved the women's fashions back then; they were so bright and colorful! Almost every 1960s-early-1970s TV show concerned the generation gap; (those dirty Hippies! lol) and the new, hip-n-happenin', Mod, far out times! It was so exciting and fun, although I knew, even then, that I would never be cool enough to say "Groovy!" *HOW I MISS THOSE DAYS!*
Me too, lol. I was 11. My father was 100% Italian. I have the complete DVD set. 😂🇮🇹❤📽️
So happy I came across this great show don't see any wonderful ones like this nowadays ❤❤
Ballard and Arden were perfectly matched in their comic abilities. You won't see this kind of acting power again till Arthur, Getty, McClanahan and White take the stage.
The contributions of Roger C. Carmel and Herbert Rudley should not be overlooked.
Who the hell said vaudeville was dead. I watched these episodes when they originally came out. This is still down right funny. Always laughed when Kay would bite her fist Italian style when she was mad at Roger. To all the haters who think these shows are dumb, they were clean and alot funnier than alot of the junk that passes for entertainment today. That's why I cancelled my cable, thank God for UA-cam where yesterday lives again.
+amberola1b Great message !...Never had cable....and I agree...there is nothing worth looking at anyway . These old shows are treasures !
I feel you needed the word whippersnapper some place in there.
Was A Great Show Wish It Would Have Run For Five Or More Year's Loved It
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Like a lot of other folks.. I really liked this show as a kid ;)
Love this show. Thanks for posting don't think Ive seen it in over 35 yrs. Thanks so much. :)
I love the thought of them being best friends in real life, and a life they had!
I watched this show when it came out. Loved it when Eve would say, "We've got to think of something else for you to call me," whenever Jerry would address her as Mother Hubbard.
Such a funny funny show it's a shame of any was on for 2 years even now it's still so funny
I watched this show in syndication, was about five or six, thought it was funny then. But now I really see the theater influence of the actors. Love these people though, brings back great memories for me.
My favourite old series.
@dakotahstr
When I was growing up in Toronto, we got it on the American networks that were broadcast over the border. It didn't run for long, but it was wonderful -- especially Eve Arden and Kay Ballard working off each other!
I was so excited when this aired originally. I had loved Eve Arden in her movies and was extatic to see her working with Kay Ballard.
An "I Love Lucy" script written by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's writers starring Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard! LMAO. But this was still a great show. It's a shame it never did too well in the ratings. I always liked it.
loved this as a kid! my dad loved Eve Arden! wish more episodes were on! thanks!
dotcomguy79, Eve Arden was marvelous. Like Cary Grant, she had a wisecracking character and personae she carried from one performance to the next whether it was radio, movies or television, and she went from success to success. I don't know why she doesn't have the same degree of following as others, perhaps because she played against others so well as opposed to Lucille Ball or Gracie Allen who were better known as personalities unto themselves, though both were tightly tied to their straight man husbands.
Love all the beautiful colors on her 👚n love her slacks..heck I love the ladies clothes
Superior comedic actors without a doubt!
It's a really good show. In many ways it is the same show as "I Love Lucy." The secret sauce that helped make both shows a success was Desi Arnaz and the writing team from "I Love Lucy," Madelyn Pugh Davis and Bob Carroll. There was something missing in the subsequent Lucy incarnations, e.g., "Here's Lucy," and I suspect it is their absence from those Desi Arnaz productions that made the difference. If you add the set-up, chemistry and backstage talent of "The Mothers-in-Law" to the comic performance genius of Lucille Ball you get "I Love Lucy" again.
Give ol’ Jerry a break, Suzie. No guy in his right mind WOULDN'T go out with Ann-Margret !
So many pieces of furniture on this show that ended up in the Brady Bunch house.
J F, a fashion era trés horreur!!
“When your time comes you’ve gotta go!”
RIP Katherine “Kaye” Josephine Buell!
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Great tv. thanks for posting!
What episode has Kaye singing "mee boppy boppy boppy! Toyota-ha!" Lol.
"I Love Lucy" re-tread! Thanx for the post...great middle-of-the-pack sit-com from the sixties...these shows...at their worst, are still better than the garbage that they call sit-coms today...except for "Modern Family"!!!
igluver15, there are incredible shows today and it is practically a second golden age of television, but none of them are sitcoms or on network TV as this was. The classic farcical sitcom, perhaps one of the last and best being "Frasier," has all but vanished. Also, the market has become so splintered that this show was probably seen by more people on its worst rated broadcast than the best rated episodes of shows on today.
Loved this when I was a kid, but damn, doesn't hold up.
+Glenn Brown Doesn't hold up what ?
The T.V. set.
Good. I barely remember this from the 60s. Basically, stellar acting, tight scripts.Almost exactly like I love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and the Flintstones. Couple argues, gets back together.
I notice many of the actors had that very theatrical exaggerated delivery for T.V. in the 60's & 70's. Maybe it had something to do with the sound systems back then. I was very little when this first aired but I remember the reruns. This was great T.V. when you're a kid & don't know much. It was nice to look back though.
Probably to do with their being stage veterans.
It's as if Eve Arden patented a way of talking uniquely hers. She hailed from Mill Valley, CA & they don't speak like her in that area = lol
I've sat through a ton of these Mothers-in-Law videos waiting for Kaye Ballard's hysterical Bette Davis impression. :(
RES T IN PEACE KAYE :(
Haven't seen this since I was a kid. RIP kay Ballard.
This was back when Italian food was so exotic.
Real Italian food is still exotic!😂😂
R.I.P. Kay Ballard
Another poster remarked how much this show was like "I Love Lucy."
Other than that, it was pretty good; the casting was quite inspired and they did try to make the show around the personalities, at least to a degree.
I don't think even one person spelled Kaye's name correctly. She was wonderful, and admitted in a very late interview, although it seemed everyone knew her, she wasn't a star. She was to me.
$2 a piece for a cigar. Wow!!! You can tell it's a few years ago. I can't find a decent cigar for under $8.
Aaaahhh yes back when tv was fun to watch.That is rodger c.carmel Harcord fenten mudd from 2 episodes of star trek
I recently saw Roger in Jerry Lewis' "Hardly Working," and he was still damn funny, and a LOT thinner, too.
Okay , now I realize that they wanted to bring Lucy and Viv up to 70s
Kaye was my favorite
Lol the music like a cartoon
Bob Carroll, Jr. and Madelyn Davis, who were the "architects" of "I LOVE LUCY" (and wrote for Lucy's radio show, "MY FAVORITE HUSBAND", before that), also created and wrote this series as well. Desi knew the value of great writers, and also knew what great "domestic" comedy scripts Bob and Madelyn could come up with...
You're so full of bullSH*T
That's okay. I've heard that before.
Those cigars would cost $13.55 each today in 2012.
ejbonk Good call! I was wondering about that, and your price seems about dead on. Thanks!
Seems so similar to I Love Lucy. Eve reminds me of a Lucy character, planning schemes with Kaye.
It was Lucy’s ex husband that produced it but u probably already knew that, jus sayin
My sisters played the twins! Kay used to shout "my babies" each day the girls showed up on the set. For 30 seconds only total filming time per day. Q: I or no one in the whole family knows where any footage is these days, does anyone have access to copies of the Mother's In Law with the babies? If so please message me & upload if possible. I believe it was the first few episodes in season II when they were born, and ran to the season's end, I believe when the show was cancelled. Eve Arden was a doll as was Kay Ballard.
maicodoug you can buy both seasons on amazon for $20.00
Ultra-hairy Roger - look how far up his chest hairline is: past his collarbone and then he may have shaved the rest.
All episodes on DVD from Amazon
dear roger, you cant eat scripts!
Guy From Disney and Movie with Basil Ratbone
Watch this show before You get married haha
I love old shows like this however, this was one dumb show although I didn't mind it when I was ten years old. But now?...... I think the actors were used to acting on Broadway because they have a very theatrical and loud delivery style. This show was beneath the talents of these fine actors. Thanks for sharing though!
Hmm, don't agree, at age 60 I think it holds up, largely due to the appealing cast. Very silly, yes, and quite broad by today's standards, but still made me laugh
Tubing has all the episodes
Tubi***
So this is what people did before the internet. Interesting. A whole lotta time on their hands.
Trev Maxwell, ummm, they watched TV instead, which, ironically, is hardly ever portrayed on television.
Not ver funny, really. But with Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard, who cares!. They were great
+daniel stanwyck You need your sense of humor tweaked :)
I agree. We're not witnessing great writing here, but we are watching Eve and Kaye act it out of the park. Their performances are what makes this show memorable.
@@scitsalcoryp and obviously what'syourname you need to get one!
I think Deborah Walley was prettier than Ann Margret.
Debbie was sure a cutie.
@@michaelsiegel1896 Debbie said years later Desi was annoying, pestering her for sex. I believe it.
I don't think this show was in Canada.. I sure don't remember watching it
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Oh Really 7:27 😄♥️🏡🇮🇹🌹
There's always many reasons a show doesn't make it and it's not usually because a show was just no good. This isn't the funniest show ever but pretty good I think compared to other shows from the same era.
+swampzoid The only reason it made it as far as it did was because of the extreme likability of the characters...haha....and I don't like sitcoms
The show failed because the actor who played Roger demanded a huge pay increase for the second season and CBS refused to agree to a budget increase for another season. Everyone else on the the show agreed to accept the same salary to keep the production running, including Desi Arnaz, who begged him not to kill the show. He refused to back down and the show was cancelled.
Hmm, while I'm the first to agree Roger C. Carmel was vastly better than Richard Deacon, I don't agree the show depended quite that heavily on the Roger character. Thought there must have been something else...?
@@bkynbiker sponsors pulling out is usually the reason .
I think Desi ran out of money for more producing.
Dinner ?
This is a very sorry excuse for marriage. Happy that I never married. But this is scripted show. 5-30-2022
Kaye Ballard was so annoying. This wasn't a very good show.