Despite her late 1970s decline on the music charts, Reddy still had sufficient star power in 1979 to host "The Helen Reddy Special", broadcast that May on ABC-TV, of which Jeff Wald was the producer. In September 1981, Reddy announced she would be shooting the pilot for her own TV sitcom, in which she would play a single mother working as a lounge singer in Lake Tahoe, but this project was abandoned. Reddy was an occasional television guest star as an actress, appearing on the television programs "The Love Boat", "Fantasy Island", "The Jeffersons" (as herself), "", and "BeastMaster".