I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

At the beginning of the third season of Charlie's Angels Jackson was offered the Meryl Streep role in the feature film Kramer vs Kramer (1979) but was forced to turn it down because Spelling told her that they were unable to rearrange the hit show's shooting schedule to give her time off to do the film. In 1995 on the heels of a night filming schedule on location Kate Jackson checked herself into an Alabama hospital for tests due to a feeling of malaise and an inability to sleep. She married David Greenwald of New York in 1982 but they divorced two years later.

She co-produced that series through her production company Shoot the Moon Enterprises Ltd. Jackson has starred in a number of theatrical and TV films and played the lead role on the short-lived television adaptation of the film Baby Boom.