Janis Stewart is a war widow and struggling nightclub singer who lives in an apartment in New York City on the East Side of Manhattan with her 10-year-old daughter Josie.

[citation needed] It′s Always Jan′s premise bore similarities to the plots of two hit movies, 1953′s How to Marry a Millionaire[1][4] and 1954′s Three Coins in the Fountain,[4] both of which also featured three man-chasing women.

The earliest known mention of the program is from a week prior to the show's premiere, stating: "The term "situation comedy" has fallen into such disrepute even the networks now shun it.

The stories are funny enough to draw some laughs (although not as many as you’ll hear on the sound-track), and they occasionally generate genuine sympathy and affection for the characters portrayed.

But the show usually catches fire only when Miss Paige, as a night club singer struggling to become a Broadway star, sings—and she does only one song a week.

[1][2] After It′s Always Jan′s CBS run ended, NBC aired reruns of the show on weekday afternoons as episodes of the network's Comedy Time series from August 12 to September 21, 1956.

[7] Despite its CBS and NBC reruns and the Desilu policy of recording programs for distribution to syndication, It's Always Jan never received an official home release or later run on nostalgia-based television networks such as TV Land or MeTV.