This Day in History September 27th: “My Mother, The Car” exported to France
On this day in 1967, a French television network begins to broadcast the first (and only) season of the American sitcom “My Mother, The Car,” the first TV show to star a talking automobile. The show’s premise--a man visits a used-car lot and finds a 1928 Porter convertible that is, somehow, the reincarnation of his dead mother--was fairly ludicrous; perhaps as a result, it only survived for one season (1965–66) in the United States. In 2002, TV Guide named “My Mother, The Car” the second-worst television show of all time. (First on the list was The Jerry Springer Show.)
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