Who are your favorite Classic TV Moms? Marion Cunningham wins in new poll

[TJ]

Mrs. C handily defeated Shirley Partridge with 56% of the vote in the finals of a recent tournament.

She is our pick for greatest Classic TV Mom. Who are your favorites?

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[Merry24]

I love TV Moms! So many greats!

Jane Clayton Jeff’s Collie Lassie

June Lockhart on Timmy and Lassie

Jane Wyatt Father Knows Best

Donna Reed The Donna Reed Show

Gloria Henry Dennis the Menace

Barbra Billingsley Leave It To Beaver

Madge Blake Leave It To Beaver

Agnes Moorehead Bewitched

Elizabeth Montgomery Bewitched

Florence Henderson The Brady Bunch

Jean Stapleton All In The Family

Karen Grassle Little House On The Praire

Katherine Macgregor Little House On The Praire

Marla Gibbs 227

Bea Author The Golden Girls

Betty White The Golden Girls

Rue McClahanon The Golden Girls

Estelle Getty The Golden Girls

Valerie Harper Valerie’s Family

Deidra Hall Our House

Judith Light Who’s The Boss?

Katherine Helmond Who’s The Boss?

Joanna Kearns Growing Pains

Doris Roberts Full House

Debra Harmon Just The 10 Of Us

Elizabeth Hoffman NBC Sisters

Pattie Lopune Life Goes On

Allie Mills The Wonder Years

Natalie West Roseanne-The Conners

Estelle Parsons Roseanne-The Conners

Patricia Richardson Home Improvement

Patricia Heaton the middle.

Marsha Mason the middle.

Jen Ray the middle.

Julie Bowen Modern Family

Wendy Mcledon The Goldbergs

Andrea Barber Fuller House

Zoe Perry Young Sheldon

Annie Potts Young Sheldon

[RetroGuy2000]

Best: Samantha on Bewitched, Roseanne on Roseanne, June Cleaver on Leave it to Beaver, Mrs. Cunningham on Happy Days, Mrs. Garrett on The Facts of Life.

Worst: Leonard's mother on The Big Bang Theory (cold, calculating), Ann Romano on One Day at a Time (she was always slapping her children), Endora on Bewitched (she was constantly causing chaos).

[Old School]

Linda Lavin (Alice Hyatt)- Alice

Marla Gibbs (Mary Jenkins)- 227

Nancy Walker (Ida Morgenstern)- Rhoda

Meredith Baxter (Elyse Keaton)- Family Ties

Roseanne Barr (Roseanne Conner)- Roseanne

Joanna Kerns (Maggie Seaver)- Growing Pains

Lani O'Grady (Mary Bradford)- Eight Is Enough

Mabel King (Mabel Thomas)- What's Happening

Jean Stapleton (Edith Bunker)- All In The Family

Katey Sagal (Peg Bundy)- Married With Children

Marion Ross (Marion Cunningham)- Happy Days

Phylicia Rashad (Claire Huxtable)- The Cosby Show

Bonnie Franklin (Ann Romano)- One Day At A Time

Jo Marie Payton (Harriette Winslow)- Family Matters

Florence Henderson (Carol Brady)- The Brady Bunch

Katherine Helmond (Mona Robinson)- Who's The Boss

Barbara Billingsley (June Cleaver)- Leave It To Beaver

Shirley Jones (Shirley Partridge)- The Partridge Family

Janet Hubert (Vivian Banks)- The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air

Elizabeth Montgomery (Samantha Stephens)- Bewitched

Isabel Sanford (Louise 'Weezy' Jefferson)- The Jeffersons

[merlinjones]

Without a doubt: Donna Reed as Donna Stone

[1960'sTVfan]

There have been many great TV moms over the years but if asked to choose a favorite I guess I would say Barbara Billingsley as June Cleaver.

[dakert]

Doris Day (Doris Martin) The Doris Day Show

[merlinjones]

...Doris (Day) Martin? Such a good Mom she left her kids behind on the farm and moved to San Francisco to become a career girl, then forgot about them altogether. (That always bothered me back when I was a kid and the show was on network). See also Lucy Carmichael.

[Bonniegirl]

Carol Brady,June Cleaver

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by merlinjones

...Doris (Day) Martin? Such a good Mom she left her kids behind on the farm and moved to San Francisco to become a career girl, then forgot about them altogether. (That always bothered me back when I was a kid and the show was on network). See also Lucy Carmichael.

I couldn't watch The Lucy Show after Chris and Jerry were "disappeared". "Where are your children, woman?!" I yelled at the TV. It was... creepy.

[Fallon97]

Mary Jenkins - 227

Samantha Stephens - Bewitched

Florida Evans - Good Times

Nell Harper - Gimme A Break

Alice Hyatt - Alice

Wilona Woods - Good Times

Claire Huxtable - The Cosby Show

Louise Jefferson - The Jeffersons

Helen Willis - The Jeffersons

Angela Bower - Who's The Boss

Maggie Seaver - Growing Pains

Elyse Keaton - Family Ties

Sophia Petrillo - Golden Girls

[SledgeBarone]

Patricia Heaton played a mom on Everybody Loves Raymond and The Middle, 2 of the 9 sitcoms in American sitcom history with over 200 episodes, so she ought to be the winner.

[Torgo]

Mrs C is definitely one of my favorites, always loved she was the only one who could call the Fonz Arthur

June Cleaver
Carol Brady
Olivia Walton
Morticia Addams
Lily Munster
Samantha Stevens

[merlinjones]

Donna Reed is not getting enough love here.

[Sal]

It's interesting that the top 3 names on the list - Marion Ross, Shirley Jones, and Florence Henderson - representing 3 of my top 10 favorite series and 3 of my top picks for best TV Moms, were all good friends in real life. I believe they all worked for a common charity project long after their TV careers ended but I can't remember what it was for. They also got together for a funny "Got Milk" ad:





My other picks for best TV Moms:

1. June Cleaver
2. Marion Cunningham
3. Shirley Partridge
4. Harriet Nelson
5. Donna Stone
6. Margaret Anderson {"Father Knows Best')
7. Carol Brady
8. Samantha Stevens
9. Clair Huxtable
10. Kate Bradley ("Petticoat Junction")


Here are a few others you might want to add:




Don't they all still look good? From left to right, they are: Shirley Jones from "The Partridge Family", Beverly Garland from "My Three Sons", Barbara Billingsley from "Leave it to Beaver", Marion Ross from "Happy Days", Betty Buckley from "Eight is Enough", and June Lockhart from "Lassie" and "Lost in Space".