On February 7, 1981 the actress hosted "Saturday Night Live", appearing in four sketches ("Monologue", "The Audition", "Was I Ever Red" and "Lean Acres") and closing the show with Donna Summer's "Starting Over Again". Kellerman's next performances were in made-for-television films. She played the title character's first wife, Maxine Cates, in "Dempsey" and a honky-tonk dance-hall proprietress in "September Gun". That year she also appeared in a stage production, Tom Eyen's R-rated spoof of 1940s women's prison films "Women Behind Bars". Kellerman played Gloria, a tough inmate who controls the other prisoners.