Co-Ed Fever (TV series)

Infobox Television
show_name = Co-Ed Fever


caption =
genre = Sitcom
director = Marc Daniels
starring = Heather Thomas
Alexa Kenin
Cathryn O'Neil
Tacey Phillips
Jillian Kesner
composer = Henry Mancini
country = USA
language = English
num_seasons = 1
num_episodes = 6 (5 unaired)
executive_producer = Martin Ransohoff
producer = Frank Shaw
runtime = 30 mins.
channel = CBS
first_aired = February 4, 1979
last_aired = February 4, 1979
related = "Delta House"
"Brothers and Sisters"

"Co-Ed Fever" is a short lived 1979 CBS sitcom that attempted to capitalize on the success of the motion picture "National Lampoon's Animal House". It was the third of three "frat house" comedy series to air in early 1979 (the others were ABC's "Delta House" and NBC's "Brothers and Sisters"). All three series were canceled by April 1979.

ynopsis

The series was set in Brewster House, a dorm on the campus of Baxter College, a formerly all-female college that had just started to admit male students. "Co-Ed Fever" starred Heather Thomas (as Sandi), Alexa Kenin (Maria "a.k.a." "Mousie"), Cathryn O'Neil (Elizabeth), Tacey Phillips (as Hope), and Jillian Kesner (Melba) as residents of Brewster House, who are joined by David Keith (Tucker Davis), Christopher S. Nelson (Doug), and Michael Pasternak (Gobo). Jane Rose played the "spaced-out" housemother Mrs. Selby; Hamilton Camp was Mr. Peabody.

The pilot of "Co-Ed Fever" was aired as a "special preview" of the coming midseason on February 4 (in a time slot immediately after the airing of the motion picture "Rocky"); however, the series was canceled in the interim between this airing and the actual premiere date (February 19). Six episodes were completed, but only the pilot was broadcast in the United States with the entire series shown on BCTV in Canada in a late afternoon weekend timeslot. Another new sitcom, "Billy", was scheduled in "Co-Ed Fever's" regular timeslot instead. By airing once, "Co-Ed Fever" at least fared better than "Mr. Dugan", another sitcom that CBS planned to air during the 1978-79 season. However, the Norman Lear-produced comedy about a black congressman never aired at all, due to complaints from real black congressmen.

Episode list

ee also

*List of television series cancelled after one episode

External links

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* [http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/41287 Sitcoms online listing for "Co-Ed Fever"] , including pictures and cast list