[2] Variety critic Bob Knight (aka Bok)[3] commends the cast as a whole, while viewing Gilliam's performance in the title role—not to mention the ubiquitous "trick" camerawork—as both overdone and underwhelming.
Melinda Dillon as a late-arriving ghost-finder had the choicest material in her brief appearance and made the most of it [... T]he standard now-you-see-him, now-you-don't camera tricks were worked overtime, with no indication that that threadbare gimmick could keep "Freeman" going very long as a series.
Stu Gilliam scored mightily in his television film role of 'Freeman,' the ghost who became a permanent guest in the home of a white family.
A lot of laughs when Gilliam cracked that oldtimer on the show, 'Don't let the doorknob hitcha where the bulldog bitcha.'
[5]Sadly for all those connected with the show, it was Variety's view that evidently prevailed at ABC; no additional episodes—nor even news—of this prospective series ever surfaced.