 Following her departure from "Lassie", Clayton in 1959 starred in a TV pilot called "The Jan Clayton Show", a sitcom in which she portrayed a college English teacher.She produced and starred the next year in "The Brown Horse", another proposed series about a woman trying to pay for her daughter's college tuition by working in a San Francisco restaurant.Then, in 1961, she again starred in a comedy pilot based on Bess Streeter Aldrich's book "Cheers for Miss Bishop".