Television
During the 1950s and 1960s Powell appeared regularly on television. These credits included guest spots on nearly all the major variety shows of the period such as The Perry Como Show, The Andy Williams Show, The Kraft Music Hall, Frank Sinatra, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Hollywood Palace, The Red Skelton Show, Eddie Fisher, The Dinah Shore Show, The Dean Martin Show, The Smothers Brothers, Jonathan Winters, This is Tom Jones, The Garry Moore Show, The Jerry Lewis Show and The Judy Garland Show. She twice appeared as one of the What's My Line? Mystery Guests on the popular Sunday night CBS-TV program. She also appeared as a guest panelist on What's My Line? and on the ABC musical quiz program, Jukebox Jury. Her television specials included "Meet Me in St. Louis", "Young at Heart", "Feathertop", "The Danny Thomas Show 1967", "The Victor Borge Show", "Ruggles of Red Gap" on Producers' Showcase and "Hooray for Love". Dramatic guest spots included both The Dick Powell Show and The June Allyson Show. She also had a failed pilot for a television sitcom called The Jane Powell Show. Powell was a regular guest on a TV variety shows in Australia when she visited there to perform her nightclub act. She also had a one-off TV special there in 1964.
In the 1970s, she appeared in three TV movies Wheeler and Murdoch, The Letters and Mayday at 40,000 Feet!.
In the 1980s she again guested on "The Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island". Another guest spot was on "Murder She Wrote". In 1985 she started a 9 month run in the daytime soap Loving playing a tough mother and business woman.
At the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s she also had a regular guest spot on Growing Pains (playing Alan Thicke's mother).
She was a temporary replacement on As The World Turns for Eileen Fulton as Lisa Grimaldi in 1991, 1993, and 1994.
In 2000 she appeared in two TV movies in supporting roles in The Sandy Bottom Orchestra and Perfect Murder, Perfect Town.
Her last major TV appearance was a guest spot on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2002.
She has also appeared on numerous TV Talk shows and co-hosted The Mike Douglas Show in 1970.
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