Okay, Mother
Okay, Mother is an American daytime variety/game show which originally aired on WABD in New York City in 1948. Broadcast history The series, hosted by Dennis James, began on WABD. On December 12, 1949, it went on the DuMont Television Network weekdays from 1pm to 1:30pm ET. The director was Lou Sposa. After receiving good ratings and largely positive reviews the show, originally titled Mothers Inc., aired nationally from 1 pm to 1:30 pm ET on the DuMont from early 1949 to July 6, 1951. Premise The show was a "tribute to mothers" featuring a mix of interviews, game show segments, sketch comedy, and viewer letters. Recurring games included the "Mother-Grams," a series of poems that alluded to a historical or fictional character that the mother had to guess in order to win a small prize, and "Rhyme Games," in which James would canvass the audience, get a mother to start a sentence, and James would have to finish it with a rhyme or else give the mother a prize (in the lone surviving episode, James complains that the same difficult-to-rhyme "trick words" would often come up day after day, which he would often reject if caught). The series was