# Someone identify this obscure sitcom and finally let me die in peace **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-identify-this-obscure-sitcom-and-finally-let-me-die-in-peace/156401 "2003-02-20T21:27:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kang\_and\_Kodos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8baadc/32.png) [@Kang\_and\_Kodos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kang_and_Kodos)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-identify-this-obscure-sitcom-and-finally-let-me-die-in-peace/156401/1 "2003-02-20T21:27:53Z")
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?” ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-identify-this-obscure-sitcom-and-finally-let-me-die-in-peace/156401/2 "2003-02-20T21:40:25Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-identify-this-obscure-sitcom-and-finally-let-me-die-in-peace/156401/3 "2003-02-20T23:09:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-identify-this-obscure-sitcom-and-finally-let-me-die-in-peace/156401/4 "2003-02-20T23:14:26Z")
I remember that. I think it was only a pilot. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-identify-this-obscure-sitcom-and-finally-let-me-die-in-peace/156401/5 "2003-02-20T23:16:49Z")
Lemme know when you find out, that sounds like one strange show. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-identify-this-obscure-sitcom-and-finally-let-me-die-in-peace/156401/6 "2003-02-20T23:18:14Z")
I saw that pilot too. For some reason I remember the wife being played by Susan St. James. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-identify-this-obscure-sitcom-and-finally-let-me-die-in-peace/156401/7 "2003-02-20T23:21:45Z")
I found it! It was called **After George**. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0249335](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0249335) And it did have Susan Saint James as the widow. ---
**Author:** ![SnugTheJoiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@SnugTheJoiner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnugTheJoiner)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-identify-this-obscure-sitcom-and-finally-let-me-die-in-peace/156401/8 "2003-02-21T01:22:06Z")
Gad, what a repulsive idea for a TV show. Worse than MY MOTHER THE CAR.