Someone identify this obscure sitcom and finally let me die in peace

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I ask this question on several message boards once a year and nobody has any idea what I’m talking about. Someone asked about it on JumptheShark, and it stumped them.

Here’s the question:

“There was a sitcom (it possibly was only a pilot) in maybe the early to mid 80’s in which the husband had been killed and his brain had been hooked up to a computer which took up a whole wall inside the front door of his wife’s house. The only thing I remember is the doorbell rang, and he showed a picture of a rhinocerous on his screen and announced “your mother’s here.” What the heck was this show?”

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Sorry. Can’t help.
But if you can’t die in peace, after you go I’ve got an old Commodore 64 computer and some wall space…you’re more than welcome to hang out…

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Could it be Reggie? With Richard Mulligan from Soap? This was a US remake of the BBC’s The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, and in the BBC version they used to flash up a picture of a hippopotamus when Reggie thought about his mother-in-law.

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I remember that. I think it was only a pilot.

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Lemme know when you find out, that sounds like one strange show.

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I saw that pilot too. For some reason I remember the wife being played by Susan St. James.

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I found it!

It was called After George.

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0249335

And it did have Susan Saint James as the widow.

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Gad, what a repulsive idea for a TV show. Worse than MY MOTHER THE CAR.