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Season 1

  • S01E01 Come Honk Your Horn

    • September 14, 1965
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E02 The De-Fenders

    • September 21, 1965
    • NBC

    Dave fears for his mother's safety when car strippers are reported in the neighborhood.

  • S01E03 What Makes Auntie Freeze

    • September 28, 1965
    • NBC

    As Dave drives up the mountains, Mother gets higher and higher from the alcohol in her antifreeze.

  • S01E04 Lassie, I Mean Mother, Come Home

    • October 5, 1965
    • NBC

    When Dave neglects to set the parking break after parking on a hill, Mother rolls into an open van that is bound for Mexico.

  • S01E05 Burned at the Steak

    • October 12, 1965
    • NBC

    Dave's mother badgers him into patching up the quarrel between the battling newlywed couple who lives next door.

  • S01E06 I'm Through Being a Nice Guy

    • October 19, 1965
    • NBC

    In a desperate effort to get the car away from Dave, Captain Manzini resorts to: Operation Unscrupulous, replacing the car with an exact replica.

  • S01E07 Lights, Camera, Mother

    • October 26, 1965
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E08 The Captain Manzini Grand Prix

    • November 2, 1965
    • NBC

    Captain Manzini goads Dave into racing the car against England's foremost distance walker with Mother as the stakes.

  • S01E09 TV or Not TV

    • November 9, 1965
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E10 My Son, the Ventriloquist

    • November 16, 1965
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E11 My Son, the Judge

    • November 23, 1965
    • NBC

    Mother tells Dave how to impress two stiffnecked council members who are interviewing prospects for judgeship in the domestic relations court.

  • S01E12 And Leave the Drive-in to Us

    • November 30, 1965
    • NBC

    Dave's mother wants to celebrate her birthday by seeing a surf movie featuring her favorite actor, at a chilly open-air theater.

  • S01E13 For Whom the Horn Honks

    • December 7, 1965
    • NBC

    Dave hears that Captain Manzini is dying but Mother warns him that Captain Manzini is up to something.

  • S01E14 Hey Lady, Your Slip Isn't Showing

    • December 14, 1965
    • NBC

    Dave's mother in-law arrives for a visit and it's soon apparent that there is one mother too many on the scene.

  • S01E15 Many Happy No-Returns

    • December 21, 1965
    • NBC

    Mother is furious when she learns that Dave intends to let Barbara choose her own Christmas present.

  • S01E16 Shine on, Shine on, Honeymoon

    • December 28, 1965
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E17 I Remember Mama, Why Can't You Remember Me?

    • January 4, 1966
    • NBC

    A collision with a truck leaves Mother with amnesia and Dave with a problem, how to bring back a car's memory.

  • S01E18 Goldporter

    • January 11, 1966
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E19 The Incredible Shrinking Car

    • January 18, 1966
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E20 I'd Rather Do It Myself, Mother

    • January 25, 1966
    • NBC

    When the housework gets Barbara down, Dave surprises her by hiring a maid who's unbearably efficient.

  • S01E21 You Can't Get There from Here

    • February 1, 1966
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E22 A Riddler on the Roof

    • February 8, 1966
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E23 My Son, the Criminal

    • February 15, 1966
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E24 An Unreasonable Facsimile

    • February 22, 1966
    • NBC

    Captain Manzini transforms a Swedish sailor into a lookalike, talkalike replica of Dave and smuggles him into the Crabtree household.

  • S01E25 Over the Hill to the Junkyard

    • March 1, 1966
    • NBC

    The future looks mighty bleak for Dave's mother when Barbara wins a new limousine in a supermarket drawing.

  • S01E26 It Might as Well Be Spring as Not

    • March 8, 1966
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E27 Absorba the Greek

    • March 15, 1966
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E28 The Blabbermouth

    • March 22, 1966
    • NBC

    Dave returns from work too exhausted to think straight and he accidentally lets it slip that the car is really his mother.

  • S01E29 When You Wish Upon a Car

    • March 29, 1966
    • NBC

    Dave's mother allows the children to think that she like, Aladdin's lamp, can grant any wish.

  • S01E30 Desperate Minutes

    • April 5, 1966
    • NBC

    A gun totting jewel thief and his moll are using the Crabtree house as a hideout.