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As long as television has existed, there have been TV moms. Some are tough but fair, some are a kid's best friend and some are just a little off center. See how many of these TV moms you can name.
Like the rest of her family, this mom is creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky.
Shirley Partridge
Lorelai Gilmore
Morticia Addams
The Addams Family broke new ground in several ways. Carolyn Jones was truly altogether creepy as Morticia Addams. She might have been pretty witchy, but she took good care of her kids.
Claire Dunphy
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This lovely lady was bringing up three very lovely girls when she met Mr. Right and doubled the size of her family.
Carol Brady
The Brady Bunch was perhaps the first example of a blended family to appear on TV. Carol was doing OK raising Marcia, Jan, and Cindy, but her life got busier and happier when she met and married Mike Brady and took on his three boys.
June Cleaver
Nora Walker
Marie Barone
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This blonde mom has her hands full with not only her children, but also an often-hapless husband and an extended family that just keeps growing.
Lois Wilkerson
Rosanne Conner
Kathy Williams
Claire Dunphy
Modern Family's Claire Dunphy was a bit of a wild child in her youth, and she wants her three children to follow a straighter path. She's uptight, sure, but who wouldn't be with all those characters coming in and out of her house?
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She cooks, she cleans, she drives a colorful school bus and she sings with her five children when she's not bailing them out of their latest scrape.
Shirley Partridge
Shirley Jones played widowed mom Shirley Partridge in the 1970s show The Partridge Family. In addition to being a loving mom, she was the leader of the family band.
Frankie Heck
Marie Barone
Donna Stone
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This mom's husband died in the first episode of the series, leaving her to grieve his loss and help her five children through it as well.
Kathy Williams
Nora Walker
Nora Walker's world turned upside down when her husband died in the first episode of Brothers & Sisters. That turned out to be only the beginning, as she and her family discovered that William had quite a lot of secrets, including more children . . . maybe.
Rosanne Conner
Lucy Ricardo
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This Midwestern mom was busy raising two children in the '50s and '60s when she also became a surrogate mother to the coolest guy in town.
Morticia Addams
Marion Cunningham
Happy Days was even happier when Marion Cunningham was around. She took good care of Howard, Ritchie and Joanie, and eventually became a mother figure to Fonzie as well.
Donna Stone
Rosanne Conner
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This blonde mom was married to a pediatrician and raising two teenagers in the late '50s and early '60s.
Donna Stone
Donna Reed starred in the show that bore her name, playing housewife and mother Donna Stone. Donna was smart and savvy while still maintaining many of the traits expected in a family show of that period.
June Cleaver
Lucy Ricardo
Claire Huxtable
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This Illinois mom definitely did not do the housework in a dress with pearls and high heels. She was working class all the way.
Marie Barone
Sophia Petrillo
Ann Romano
Roseanne Conner
Rosanne Barr created a female television character like none that had been seen before. Rosanne Conner was overweight, crass and controlling, and rather than staying at home with the kids, she helped pay the bills as a factory worker, waitress and a variety of other blue collar jobs.
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This mom is as stubborn as they come, but can you blame her? She's got a houseful of unruly boys, including one genius in the middle.
Nora Walker
Emily Gilmore
Lois Wilkerson
Malcolm in the Middle gave us Lois Wilkerson, a mom just trying to get through the day without her boys destroying the house or each other. She has trouble getting along with, well, just about everyone, but she does love her big brood of boys.
Shirley Partridge
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This divorced mom moves her family to Indianapolis, where she juggles a career, two teenage daughters and a quirky handyman.
Carmela Soprano
Ann Romano
One Day at a Time's Ann Romano decided to take more control over her life by moving from a small town to Indianapolis with daughters Julie and Barbara. As the series progressed and the girls grew up, Ann took in an orphaned boy named Alex and welcomed her first grandchild.
Margaret Anderson
Claire Huxtable
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How did she do all that vacuuming dressed like she was headed to church? At least her husband took care of most of the discipline, which mostly consisted of grounding.
Tami Taylor
Marge Simpson
Debra Barone
June Cleaver
Leave it to Beaver's June Cleaver is one of the most beloved TV moms of all time. We bet you can still hear her saying, "Ward, I think you need to speak to the boys."
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There are definitely financial perks when you're married to the mob.
Carmela Soprano
Carmela Soprano is in a bit of a tough spot. Part of her wants her family to be legitimate, but hey, jewelry and furs are nice too, if you can forget where they came from.
Peg Bundy
Nora Walker
Estelle Costanza
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All she wants is to get into show business like her husband, but she usually ends up in a jam and has some 'splainin' to do.
Caroline Ingalls
Lucy Ricardo
Lucy Ricardo was the beloved title character of I Love Lucy even before she became mom to Little Ricky. Motherhood didn't stop her from getting into frequent but well-meaning trouble with her sidekick, Ethel.
Edith Bunker
Gloria Pritchett
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This mom struggles to sell cars for a living while dealing with her brood of three children who are very different from each other, to say the least.
Lorelai Gilmore
Frankie Heck
Patricia Heaton won hearts as Debra Barone, and now she is again struggling with three children as Frankie Heck on The Middle. Frankie isn't much of a cook, but she's always there when her kids need her.
Elyse Keaton
Kitty Forman
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This widowed mother of a young daughter met and married a Manhattan nightclub entertainer, thus becoming a stepmother to his two children.
Lorelai Gilmore
Carol Brady
Debra Barone
Kathy Williams
During the early years of The Danny Thomas Show, the actress who played the mother left the series, making way for Danny Williams to find a new wife. Enter Kathy, a nurse with a young daughter who became a little sister to Terry and Rusty.
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She was a housewife in the town of Springfield, where she offered gentle guidance to her three children while never losing sight of who really knew best.
Elyse Keaton
Margaret Anderson
Margaret Anderson, portrayed by Jane Wyatt, was the wife and mother in the classic Father Knows Best. She kept house and cared for the couple's three children, typically known as Princess, Bud and Kitten, although they had real names.
Peg Bundy
Carol Brady
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This mom is gentle and kind with an unmistakable laugh. She's also a nurse who's just trying to raise kids in the '70s.
Kitty Forman
That '70s Show's Kitty Forman is a nurturing mom who just wants everyone to get along. She is challenged not just by her kids and their friends, but by her more bombastic husband, Red. No wonder she needs to sneak a smoke now and then.
Marge Simpson
Claire Dunphy
Caroline Ingalls
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She's from Sicily and proud of it. Her children have children and grandchildren, but she is still quick with a piece of advice for her daughter and their two roommates.
Sophia Petrillo
Sophia Petrillo of The Golden Girls has led quite a life, if you believe all her stories. She's happy to be out of Shady Pines nursing home and living with her daughter, Dorothy, but don't cross her or she'll put a Sicilian curse on you before you can say, "Cosa Nostra."
Carmela Soprano
Kathy Williams
Edith Bunker
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Prim, proper, and always in control, this matriarch only wants the best for her daughter. The trouble is, the two women couldn't be more different.
Reba Hart
Carmela Soprano
Emily Gilmore
A denizen of the DAR and patron to dozens of charities, Emily Gilmore has clashed with her daughter, Lorelai, over just about everything. She thinks she knows best and has little patience for anyone who disagrees with her, but Gilmore Girls wouldn't be the same without her.
Tami Taylor
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This mom is a successful career woman and loving mother to the five children she shares with her husband, who runs a pediatrics practice from their Brooklyn home.
Claire Dunphy
Lorelai Gilmore
Peg Bundy
Claire Huxtable
The Cosby Show's Claire Huxtable is set out to prove that women can have both a high-powered career and a happy, healthy home life. She's more serious than her husband, Cliff, but she knows how to lighten up, too.
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Moving across the street from her in-laws seemed like a good idea at the time.
Debra Barone
Poor Debra Barone. Not only does she have a daughter and twin boys to look after, she gets no help from her husband, Ray, and her mother-in-law is a constant, ever-critical presence. Everybody does love Raymond, and Debra, too.
Reba Hart
Rosanne Conner
Peg Bundy
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This mom pays little attention to her two teenage children, but she has plenty of time for television and nagging her husband.
Caroline Ingalls
Frankie Heck
Peg Bundy
Married . . . with Children gave us Peg Bundy, lazy wife to Al and inattentive mother to Kelly and Bud. Her hair is almost as big as her appetite for shopping and berating her husband.
Lynette Scavo
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Before she went back to work in advertising, this mom of four, including hyperactive twin boys, was feeling desperate indeed.
Lynette Scavo
Lynette Scavo of the series Desperate Housewives loves her kids very much, but sometimes they can be a bit much for her to handle. Things get more complicated when it is discovered that her husband, Tom, has an illegitimate child with another woman, but Lynette is never too fazed to manipulate Tom and her kids to set things up the way she prefers.
Tami Taylor
Lucy Ricardo
Marion Cunningham
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One word: dingbat.
Estelle Costanza
Marie Barone
Margaret Anderson
Edith Bunker
All in the Family made Edith Bunker one of the most beloved, if long-suffering- moms on television. With her sunny disposition and nasal voice, she was a perfect foil for the bombastic, bigoted Archie.
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This mom of Italian descent is a meticulous housekeeper, amazing cook and constant thorn in the side of her husband, two grown sons and beleaguered daughter-in-law.
Peg Bundy
Marie Barone
All she wants is what's best for everyone she loves, but the problem is that they don't always see eye to eye on what that is. Marie Barone of Everybody Loves Raymond is the ultimate involved mother, once interrupting her son's wedding to share some thoughts.
Tami Taylor
Roseanne Conner
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This Ohio mom was as liberal as they come, balancing a busy career as an architect with managing her family, including a teenage son who's a conservative Republican.
Ann Romano
Claire Huxtable
Frankie Heck
Elyse Keaton
Alex P. Keaton was a constant source of frustration to his mother, Elyse, on the series Family Ties. Elyse and her husband, Steven, were former hippies with very liberal, feminist views, while Alex was a would-be millionaire and materialistic Mallory couldn't understand her parents' lack of interest in worldly goods.
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This sexy mom grew up in Colombia and now lives in Los Angeles with her much-older husband and two sons.
Gloria Pritchett
Modern Family's Gloria Pritchett has been in the United States for a few years, but still has some problems with English pronunciation, once referring to Omaha Steaks as Obama Steaks. She is very much involved with the lives and well being of her son, Manny, from her first marriage, and her youngest son, Joe, with her current husband, Jay.
Donna Stone
Lois Wilkerson
Kitty Forman
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This family matriarch is instantly recognizable because of her bright yellow skin and rather tall hairstyle.
Marge Simpson
Where would the Simpsons be without Marge? It can't be easy trying to keep Homer, Bart, Lisa and Maggie in line while carrying all that hair around.
Debra Barone
Edith Bunker
Caroline Ingalls
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This mom is a redheaded spitfire from Texas who finds herself living next door to her ex-husband and his new wife.
Shirley Partridge
Rosanne Conner
Reba Hart
The only thing worse than living next door to your ex would be when he impregnates and marries the woman he left you for, and she wants to be your best friend. That's Reba Hart's situation in the series Reba, which also includes her pregnant teenage daughter and her new husband, a sarcastic middle child, and a young son who is the long-suffering little brother.
Estelle Costanza
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Her voice is more of a screech and she doesn't mind using it on her crotchety husband and only son, who just wants his parents to move to Florida.
Peg Bundy
Elyse Keaton
Estelle Costanza
Seinfeld's George Costanza has a love-hate relationship with his mother, Estelle. She's the ultimate overbearing mother who can't understand why George does the things he does, but he blames most of his neuroses on her.
Nora Walker
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We never saw her and didn't learn her first name for several years, but we certainly heard her loud and clear.
Debbie Wolowitz
Mrs. Wolowitz of The Big Bang Theory was the morbidly obese woman who epitomized the stereotypical Jewish mother. She was an open book, sharing every detail of her life including her bathroom habits, but she showered her motherly love on not only Howard, but all his friends also.
Emily Gilmore
Sophia Petrillo
Marie Barone
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She became a mother at 16 and promptly left her parents' luxurious home to make her own way in a small Connecticut town filled with strange and wonderful characters.
Margaret Anderson
Gloria Pritchett
Ann Romano
Lorelai Gilmore
Lorelai Gilmore was being suffocated by her demanding mother, so at 16, she took her newborn daughter and moved to quaint Stars Hollow. She raised Rory in a completely different way and thus mother and daughter became best friends and the Gilmore Girls.
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This Texas mom is known as Mrs. Coach.
Tami Taylor
Tami Taylor of Friday Night Lights technically has only one child, daughter Julie. However, as the high school guidance counselor and wife of the head football coach, she ends up dispensing motherly advice and love to a host of other kids.
Claire Huxtable
Edith Bunker
Shirley Partridge
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This mom lives on a Minnesota prairie with her husband and four daughters.
Lynette Scavo
Reba Hart
Debbie Wolowitz
Caroline Ingalls
Based on Laura Ingalls Wilder's best-selling books, Little House on the Prairie gave us the loving presence of Caroline "Ma" Ingalls. Life on the frontier wasn't easy, but she made sure it was filled with love.
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This mom married a man with money in order to save her family's ranch, but she became a steadying force in a family filled with drama.
Ellie Ewing
Eleanor Ewing is better known to Dallas fans as Miss Ellie. She and Jock raise three boys, but even when they are adults, there is never a moment to catch one's breath before the next crisis arises.
Caroline Ingalls
Kathy Williams
Marie Barone
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