Okay, Mother is an American daytime variety/game show which originally aired on WABD in New York City in 1948.
Recurring games included the "Mother-Grams," a series of poems that alluded to a historical or fictional character that the mother had to guess in order to win a small prize, and "Rhyme Games," in which James would canvass the audience, get a mother to start a sentence, and James would have to finish it with a rhyme or else give the mother a prize (in the lone surviving episode, James complains that the same difficult-to-rhyme "trick words" would often come up day after day, which he would often reject if caught).
James often addressed the TV audience as "Mother", a practice he had begun when discussing the finer points of wrestling during his sports broadcasts.
[5] One DuMont episode, recorded on kinescope and with a slightly damaged audio track, survives: the July 18, 1950 episode (dated based on contemporary mentions in The New York Times) with "honor mother" Judith Doniger Lipsey (1912–2007) mentioning her upcoming New York City recital on October 12.
The episode in question likely came from Dennis James's personal collection, which held samples of several of the shows he hosted.