I have a friend who is asking (on Facebook) for help in figuring out a show. Here’s his initial post:
I asked him the approximate era (he said 1970s or 80s) and the genre (he thinks it was a comedy, but is not sure). He’s ruled out My Mother The Car, and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
Any idea what it could be?
Outside the timeframe but…
There’s a couple of episodes of Benson where only he can see Jessica Tate.
In “Due South” the main character, Benton Fraser, could see and hear his late father, who would provide advice from time to time.
Before The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, there was a The Smothers Brothers Show, a sitcom in black and white where Tommy was an angel who came to advise his brother Dick and hilarity ensued. And there was Topper, where Leo G Carroll (before he started working for U.N.C.L.E.) was advised by the ghosts of a married couple.
It sounds like the movie Truly Madly Deeply.
Could be the movie Ghost, with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore.
And yes, I know it’s a movie and not a TV show, but memory is incredibly unreliable about stuff like this.
Wasn’t the TV series *Jennifer Slept Here *such a tale, with Loni Anderson as the ‘ghost’?
ETA: Searched; yes. She was a dead Golden Age Hollywood star who still haunted the mansion the family moved into. Only the kid could see her.
And WOW is this obscure. Google does not turn it up. IMDb does not turn it up until you search “slept here” by itself. Zoinks!
PS - maybe I remember because I think I wrote a porn novel based on this idea/show…
I never pass up an opportunity to guess an old Matthew Perry show:
A short-lived '80’s classic: Jennifer Slept Here
Ninja’d – I found it easily by searching on Ann Jillian (I was a huge fan in the '80’s).
(Missed the edit) Ann Jillian, not Loni Anderson. Allee samee.
And the ninja’ing is reversed… 
Early on in Six Feet Under, the dad would appear and give advice.
Not the show the OP is looking for, but Providence is another example of a series where a dead relative (in this case the protagonist’s mother) kept showing up to give advice.
Well, there’s also the late, great John Larroquette Show, in which David Crosby’s character died but came back for one very memorable ghost turn.
It was Jennifer Slept Here. Thanks!
Although the OP seems to be answered, Yet Another “ghost in the house” TV series was Nearly Departed with Eric Idle from 1989. Lasted all of 6 episodes. It was that good.
My GOD, that woman was hot!
Matthew Perry show! OoooOo must have been good show!
I went to a taping.
Another one is * Randall and Hopkirk (deceased )*