Throughout the 1970s, Taylor was a frequent celebrity guest panelist on television game shows such as "Hollywood Squares", "To Tell the Truth", and "The Gong Show", and substituted for Charles Nelson Reilly on "Match Game." He became a regular on Sid and Marty Krofft's "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters", playing Sheldon, a sea-genie who lived in a conch shell. In addition, Taylor was also a regular on "The Brady Bunch Hour", playing the role of neighbor/performer Jack Merrill. He also hosted a short-lived send-up of beauty pageants titled "The $1.98 Beauty Show", created by Chuck Barris in 1978, producer/host of "The Gong Show". Taylor appeared as a celebrity on the 1990 version of "Match Game". In 1979, he was the voice of C.J. from the Hanna-Barbera television movie "Scooby Goes Hollywood". Taylor's other appearances also include "The Kids in the Hall;" referred to as Uncle Rip by Buddy Cole, the show's most flamboyantly gay character. He also appeared as himself in the movie "Wayne's World 2", one of the special guests invited to "WayneStock" after being visited in a dream by Jim Morrison. Taylor made "dozens of mayhem-filled appearances" on both "The Tonight Show" and "The Mike Douglas Show."