Madame's Place aired during the 1982-1983 season in first run syndication.
Puppeteer Wayland Flowers had created the character of Madame, a craggy, crackling, slightly off-color old hussy, and toured with her for several years on the cabaret and guest circuit. She was supposed to be an old show-business trouper who had started in vaudeville and then made more than 30 movies, and who still acted very much the glamorous star despite her appearance. In 1982 the aging queen showed up surrounded by human supporting actors, in this five-night-a-week syndicated comedy, playing the host of a talk show originating from her palatial mansion in Hollywood. There was constant bickering with her neighbors, her network, and her staff, as well as an abundance of lecherous jokes and put-downs of anyone who wandered by.
The human regulars included Judy Landers as her niece Sara Joy; Susan Tolsky as Bernadette; Johnny Haymer as Madeline's butler Walter Pinkerton; and Corey Feldman as Buzzy.
Despite a large number of bizarre characters passing through ( many of them parodies on show business types), some guest celebrities such as William Shatner and Debbie Reynolds, and very clever puppet work by Flowers ( who manipulated his creation with rods rather than strings), Madame's Place folded after a short time.
Here is Wayland Flowers' Obituary from The New York Times
Wayland Flowers Dies; Ventriloquist Was 48
AP
Published: October 12, 1988
Wayland Flowers, a ventriloquist who brought life to a cackling, off-color puppet named Madame, died on Tuesday, five weeks after collapsing on stage. He was 48 years old.
Mr. Flowers had been suffering from cancer for some time, said his press agent, JoAnne Geffen.
The puppeteer created a number of characters, but it was the craggy old hussy Madame, manipulated with rods rather than strings, that won him popularity on television and in night clubs.
Mr. Flowers's first big break on television came on the ''Andy Williams'' show and led to guest appearances on ''Hollywood Squares'' and a four-year stint on ''Solid Gold.'' His syndicated situation comedy, ''Madame's Place,'' was shown in 1982.
''This was an underground act that took root and shot up out of nowhere,'' Mr. Flowers once said in an interview, adding: ''I'm an illusionist. I'm right out there on stage beside Madame, but within two or three minutes it seems that I disappear.''
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