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AL AND JILLIAN MARRIED
FOUR YEARS AGO ON THE
STAGE OF A THEATER. “
I THOUGHT,” JILLIAN SAYS,
“THAT IF I PLANNED IT LIKE A
THEATRICAL PRODUCTION, I
WOULDN’T BE AS NERVOUS”

Above, Alfred R. Khan and
his wife, the actress, writer,
and producer Jillian Crane,
welcomed us into their New
York home. Next to them, a
drawing of Pikachu, the
most famous Pokémon.
So he did a syndication—in other Opposite page, top: The liv-
words, he went around selling Pokémon ing room. On the terrace is
a 19th century stone foun-
to about 200 local TV stations that, just tain from a Long Island, NY,
to be safe, scheduled the show for 6 a.m. church. Below, Jillian’s of-
“And suddenly they realized that, ac- fice (the table belonged to
her grandmother).
cording to the ratings, children were wak-
ing up early in the morning to see and it
had a larger audience than a program at
4 in the afternoon. They rearranged their
scheduled programming and from that
point on, it was unstoppable.”
It was so popular that, in 1999, Pikachu