Co-Ed Fever (TV series)

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Co-Ed Fever was a 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 of them were off the air by April of that year.

The short-lived 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. Another new sitcom, Billy, got 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.

CBS promoted the show with the slogan "Putting the high in higher education."[1]