Trivia

Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6324 Hollywood Blvd. on February 8, 1960 (one week before her 18th birthday).

Best known for her roles as Terry Williams on The Danny Thomas Show (1953) and as the android Andrea in What Are Little Girls Made Of? (1966).

Worked with Chuck Connors on three different occasions: in Trouble Along the Way (1953); in a 1958 episode of The Rifleman (1958); and in a 1966 episode of Branded (1965).

In 1967 she began a five-year relationship with business executive and racehorse breeder Fletcher Jones, which ended on November 7, 1972, when Jones was killed in a plane crash eight miles east of Santa Ynez Airport in Santa Barbara County, CA.

Five months after boyfriend Fletcher Jones' death, she filed suit against his estate, asking for more than $1 million, with her attorneys stating that Jones promised to provide her with at least $25,000 a year for the rest of her life. The litigation proved to be unsuccessful.

Her mother provided drama, singing and dancing lessons for Sherry and her two brothers, Curtis L. Jackson and Gary L. Jackson, "from the time they were very little".

In 1961, Jackson and actress Diane McBain shared an apartment together. At the time, McBain's character on the ABC television series Surfside 6 (1960) was romantically involved with co-star Troy Donahue, who, in real life, was then romantically involved with Jackson.

In an interesting connection, she was a guest star on the Maverick (1957) episode, Red Dog (1961), which formerly starred James Garner, and, in 1975, guest starred on Garner's The Rockford Files (1974) series, in the episode The Real Easy Red Dog (1975).

Profiled in the 2016 book, "X Child Stars: Where Are They Now?", by Kathy Garver and Fred Ascher.

Shared a birthday with her television brother, Rusty Hamer, five years apart. Later on Rusty ran into all sorts of personal and financial problems where his sad and sorry life spiraled down into deep depression where eventually alcohol abuse caused him to be increasingly violent and delusional, and suffering from chronic back pain, he shot himself to death in his trailer on January 18, 1990. He was only 42.

Beautiful, experienced actress who had the notoriety of enhancing season one of each of the two competing 1966 network space entries. On Star Trek she played a conflicted, scantily-dressed android. On Lost in Space she appeared as a wacky if enchanting traveling space hayseed.

In The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968), she is slapped eight times by Diane McBain.