Editing Jane Curtin (section)

=== Later television work ===
Unlike many of her fellow ''SNL'' cast members who ventured successfully into film, Curtin chose to stay mainly in television, with a few sporadic film appearances. To date, she has starred in two long-running television sitcoms. First, in ''[[Kate & Allie]]'' (1984–89), with [[Susan Saint James]], she played a single mother named "Allie Lowell" and twice won the Emmy Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

Following ''Kate & Allie'', Curtin co-starred on the 1990 sitcom ''[[Working It Out]]'' with [[Stephen Collins]]. The series was created by [[Bill Persky]], a writer, director, and producer of ''Kate & Allie'', but it was not successful and was cancelled after 13 episodes. Later, she was part of the cast of ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'' (1996–2001) playing a human, [[Mary Albright|Dr. Mary Albright]], opposite the alien family composed of [[John Lithgow]], [[Kristen Johnston]], [[French Stewart]], and [[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]]. As with ''SNL'', her mostly strait-laced character was often confounded by the zany and whimsical antics of the Solomon family.

In 1997, Curtin narrated two episodes of the documentary television series ''[[Understanding (TV series)|Understanding]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1041883/ |title= Understanding (1994–2004) |publisher=[[IMDb]] |access-date=April 14, 2013}}</ref> and she has done voice work for ''[[Recess (TV series)|Recess]]'' and ''[[Cyberchase]]''. She guest starred on ''[[Sesame Street]]'' in 1985.

Curtin also starred with [[Fred Savage]] in the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] sitcom ''[[Crumbs (TV series)|Crumbs]]'', which debuted in January 2006 and was cancelled in May of that year. She also guest-starred on ''[[Gary Unmarried]]'' as Connie, Allison's mother.<ref>{{cite journal| url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings/20081110cbs08/| title=Listings: Gary Unmarried| journal=[[The Futon Critic]] |date=November 10, 2008| access-date=July 29, 2020}}</ref> In 2012, she joined ''[[Unforgettable (American TV series)|Unforgettable]]'' as Dr. Joanne Webster, a gifted but crusty [[medical examiner]]; in 2014, she occasionally reprised her role as the first Guardian on ''[[The Librarians (2014 TV series)|The Librarians]]''. In 2020, she had a co-starring role as a quirky mother-in-law on the ABC sitcom [[United We Fall (TV series)|''United We Fall'']].