Does anyone recall "Jennifer Slept Here"

[Conundrummm]

I do remember this show from when I was a kid and remember I liked it. But, the only image I can remember is seeing Jennifer in a long, flowing dress disappearing. So much for my memory - LOL. But, I do seem to remember something about it being canceled because Ann Jillian was diagnosed with cancer. Okay, I was like 10 or 11 and could be mixing up memories. But, I do remember the newsbit about Jillian having cancer back then.

[TeeVeeCloset]

I have all 13 episodes produced in different degrees of quality, one of my favorites from the 80's, yes Ann looked beautiful, lots of fancy dresses, the premise she was an actress from the 1930's died in a car accident and remained in her mansion as a ghost. Glenn Scarpelli from One Day at a time was a semi-regular cast member.

[Jude The Obscure]

I remember some fuss being made over the ghost of a very lovely movie star being there in front of an impressionable young teen boy!

WEHT John P. Navin Jr. anyway?

[TMC]

https://the-avocado.org/2022/03/18/t...er-slept-here/

Unlike most of the shows I’ve covered, Jennifer Slept Here isn’t terrible. In fact, I’m willing to call it perfectly cromulent television. If you can get beyond the layers of 80s cheese and ignore the implications of a teenage boy hanging out with a hot female ghost only he can see, there is a fun program here. It even boasts one of the best TV theme songs, performed by Joey Scarbury, the mind behind The Greatest American Hero intro. What more could you ask for?

Most of the episodes center on Joey getting up to typical teenage shenanigans while Jennifer attempts to teach him about life, usually with the help of her ghostly powers. Sometimes the rest of the family is also involved, but that is rare. Like the shows I mentioned up top, Jennifer Slept Here knows what people came here for. Ann Jillian is the star, and she does a great job playing Jennifer as someone desperately clinging to her life. Also like those 60s programs, the show will go as wacky as possible if they think it will land a laugh. There’s an entire episode involving an exorcist (played by Zelda Rubinstein, naturally) who traps Jennifer in a bottle, which will supposedly remove her from our plane of existence. It doesn’t, of course, but the show does revel in a shot of Joey laughing at Jennifer’s bottled existence that borders on horror.

While the wackiness might have turned off some viewers, it’s more likely that airing opposite The Dukes of Hazzard hurt the show’s chances. Jennifer Slept Here was all but officially canned when NBC aired repeats during the summer only for the program to find its audience. With reruns frequently landing in the Top 30, the network was ready to give Jennifer another shot at life, only to be thwarted by another revival.