Nearly Departed

Nearly Departed
Created by	Roger Shulman John Baskin
Starring	Eric Idle Caroline McWilliams Stuart Pankin Wendy Schaal Jay Lambert Henderson Forsythe
Composer(s)	Kevin Quinn Randy Petersen Robert Irving
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6 (2 unaired)
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Baskin-Shulman Productions Lorimar Television
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	April 10 – May 1, 1989

Nearly Departed is an American sitcom that aired on NBC on Monday nights from April 10, 1989 to May 1, 1989. It was an updated version of Topper.

The series focused on English professor Grant Pritchard, and his wife Claire, who are killed in a rockslide, then return to their home as ghosts to find plumbing contractor Mike Dooley and his family, wife Liz, son Derek, and his father, Jack, living there. Grandpa Jack was the only one who could see and hear the Pritchards but not the Dooleys. In exchange for continuing to live in the house as ghosts, the Pritchards would mediate through Grandpa Jack and try to help the Dooleys with their problems, such as when Derek was doing poorly in school because he was intimidated by bullies, Grant and Claire use their abilities to scare off the bullies.

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