Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage closed the second part of its Season 2 finale on Thursday, May 21 with a brief on-screen tribute to Phyllis Gilliam that read, "In loving memory, Phyllis Gilliam, January 26, 1956 – March 23, 2026."
Gilliam, 70, served as the CBS sitcom's costume supervisor and is credited on the series throughout Season 1 and early in Season 2, with her last production credit listed as Season 2, Episode 5. According to the show's closing card, the tribute was a direct acknowledgment of her contribution to the series.
The numbers underline why the moment mattered to the production: Gilliam’s work on Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage ended four months before her death, and that series now stands as her final production credit. She had been costume supervisor on that show through Season 2, Episode 5, marking the endpoint of a career that stretched back to the early 2000s.
Beyond Georgie & Mandy, Gilliam’s credits run across a wide swath of television. Her first costume supervisor credit was on Don't Shoot Me! from 2001 to 2003. She served as costume supervisor on Numb3rs for Seasons 4 through 6 and worked throughout the three-season run of Home Economics as a wardrobe or costume supervisor. Her résumé also includes credits on Splitting Up Together, Great News, 68 Whiskey, Agent Carter, Mulaney, The Upshaws, Miracle Workers, Wicked City, Gang Related and Mob City, and her work appears in the 2008 film Role Models.
The tribute during the Season 2 finale brought that career back onto viewers’ screens at a moment when the series itself was completing a split-season run. Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage wrapped Season 2 in two back-to-back parts on Thursday, May 21, and CBS announced in January that the show will return for Season 3 in the fall — meaning the program that closed its latest run with a memorial will be back on air later this year.
There is a small but notable friction in the timeline. Gilliam’s last production credit on Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage is recorded as Season 2, Episode 5, yet the show carried her memorial card at the end of the season’s final episode. Her recorded work on the series ended months before her death, and the public detail of her passing in the program is limited to that single on-screen message and the production credits that document her career.
For viewers and colleagues who knew Gilliam’s work, the Season 2 finale’s card was the clearest public acknowledgment the series offered. The tribute text — "In loving memory, Phyllis Gilliam, January 26, 1956 – March 23, 2026" — is, in the record available, the sole personal detail presented alongside the production credits that span her decades-long career.
Her credits across network and streaming series make clear the scope of what the industry will remember. With Georgie & Mandy set to return for Season 3 in the fall, the CBS sitcom that closed its recent run by naming her will also be the last televised project to carry Gilliam’s production credit — a quiet but durable professional legacy.
