Mama Rosa - Season 1

1. Episode One

Aired: 3/2/1950

Nina's boyfriend Tommy needs to study if he is to become a doctor, but Nina is not having much fun because of that. Mama has a plan: Tommy should bring his books over to the boarding house and study there. But of course, there are too many distractions and he cannot get any studying done. He prefers the company of his friend Molly. Everyone is concerned that Tommy has a new girlfrien—but it turns out that Molly is a skeleton.

2. Episode Two

Aired: 3/21/1950

Nina's boyfriend Tommy needs to study if he is to become a doctor, but Nina is not having much fun because of that. Mama has a plan: Tommy should bring his books over to the boarding house and study there. But of course, there are too many distractions and he cannot get any studying done. He prefers the company of his friend Molly. Everyone is concerned that Tommy has a new girlfriend, but it turns out that ""Molly"" is a skeleton.

3. Episode Three

Aired: 3/9/1950

4. Episode Four

Aired: 3/16/1950

Everyone in the house gets spooked when they start hearing strange noises. Then food begins to mysteriously disappear. It turns out that Nicolai is hiding a young runaway orphan in the basement. It seems that the boy just wants a mother and a father. Mama has a plan: perhaps her friend Mrs. Johnson would take care of the boy....

5. Episode Five

Aired: 3/23/1950

6. Episode Six

Aired: 3/30/1950

Shakespeare has written a 20 second radio commercial that is due to air tonight. Meanwhile, Tommy is upset that he cannot be alone with Nina except in the kitchen.

7. Episode Seven

Aired: 4/6/1950

Nina is excited about going on a vacation to Catalina Island with Tommy. Meanwhile, Shakespere is depressed; he is getting too many rejection notices for his writing efforts. Tommy comes over to tell Nina that Mrs. Clark, who was to chaperone Nina, cannot go to Catalina. Mama arranges it so that everyone in the boarding house except her and Crisino go to Catalina. She will stay home and get a real vacation.

8. Episode Eight

Aired: 4/20/1950

9. Episode Eight

Aired: 4/20/1950

Dreamers Nikolai and Roberto decide to look for work and plan to go into the restaurant business, while Nikolai will also get married.

10. Episode Ten

Aired: 4/27/1950

11. Episode Eleven

Aired: 5/4/1950

12. Episode Thirteen

Aired: 5/18/1950

Nina and her friend Estelle decide to quit their stenography jobs in order to try to break into the movies. Meanwhile, Roberto gets his big break: he is to appear in a film version of the life of the explorer Cortez. When the female lead has to drop out, Estelle gets her hopes up for the part. But it seems that she just is not an actress. Nina decides to return to her job when her boss says he cannot do without her; and Estelle decides to return to work as well, possibly at ABC, where the brother of Nina's boss works.