Co-Ed Fever


Co-Ed Fever is an American sitcom that aired on CBS in 1979. The series 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. CBS cancelled Co-Ed Fever after only one episode, and all three series were off the air by the end of April 1979. The series was so low rated, it never made it to its regular time slot, Monday night, instead having aired as a "special preview" the night before.
In 2002, Co-Ed Fever ranked number 32 on TV Guides 50 Worst Shows of All Time list.

Synopsis

The series was set in Brewster House, a dormitory 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, Alexa Kenin, Cathryn O'Neil, Tacey Phillips, and Jillian Kesner as residents of Brewster House, who are joined by David Keith, Christopher S. Nelson, and Michael Pasternak. Jane Rose played the "spaced-out" housemother Mrs. Selby; Hamilton Camp was Mr. Peabody.
The episode "Pepperoni Passion" was aired as a "special preview" at 10:30 pm on February 4, immediately after the airing of the movie Rocky; however, the series was cancelled in the interim between this airing and the scheduled premiere date, the result of low ratings aside from viewer complaints and censorship issues because of content. Six episodes were completed, but only "Pepperoni Passion" was broadcast in the United States; however, all six were aired in Canada in a late-afternoon weekend timeslot. The Brewster House "set" was later reused as the girls' dormitory during the first season of The Facts of Life, which premiered during the summer of 1979.
Another new sitcom, Billy, was scheduled on CBS 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 spring of 1979; the Norman Lear-produced comedy about a black congressman never aired at all, due to complaints from real black congressmen.

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