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Directed by Larry Elikann Director Larry Elikann Produced by Robert Chenault | 8.3/10 IMDb Theme music composer Dean Elliott Initial release 1977 Music director Dean Elliott Cinematography Donald M. Morgan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genre AdventureComedyDramaFamily Written by Susan Fichter KennedyElaine Evans Rushnell Starring Lance KerwinSamaria GrahamMara Hobel Production company DePatie-Freleng Enterprises Similar The Bear Who Slept Through, Pontoffel Pock - Where Ar, The Hoober‑Bloob Highway, Bugs Bunny's Easter Sp, The Cat in the Hat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
My mom s having a baby february 16 1977 opening
My Mom's Having a Baby is an American television teen comedy/documentary that aired as an ABC Afterschool Special on February 16, 1977. The program would be historic as it was the first television program of its kind in the United States to showcase the pregnancy process and conception to young people, using a combination of animation and live action. The program was a co-production between Dick Clark Productions and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.
Contents
- My mom s having a baby february 16 1977 opening
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- Premise
- Awards
- Cast
- References
My mom s having a baby february 16 1977 partial closing
Premise
Upon learning that his mother is pregnant with what will be his brother, 10-year-old Petey Evans begins to wonder (through animated fantasies and flashbacks) about how babies are born, only to realize that those theories are not delivered by storks or popping out of a stomach. So, with help from his friends Oskar and Kelly, they go to a real expert who will be performing the delivery, Dr. Lendon Smith, who uses an animated film that explains in detail (via Smith's narration) of how a pregnancy begins and how the child is conceived.
The remaining portion of this program features an actual live birth being performed in front of the cameras, which was taken from a 1974 ABC's Wide World of Entertainment special called David Hartman: Birth & Babies. Actress Candace Farrell, who played the mother in this program, was pregnant at the time of filming the 1974 special, which resulted in the producers hiring her for this program.