Vicki Lawrence
This goo was worth a point in December 2023.
publication date: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 (part of December 2023)
category: 
Television
clue: She was in her mid-twenties when she first played the family matriarch that would become a TV icon, lasting from the 1970s to the 2000s.
explanation: Lawrence first played "Mama" Thelma Harper on The Carol Burnett Show in 1974. The one-off sketch was popular enough to become recurring, and led to the TV movie Eunice in 1982, which begat the spin-off series Mama's Family which aired from 1983 to 1990. Lawrence reprised the character in Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular in 2007. more…
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm
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