During the 1960s, Dee appeared in "Gone Are the Days!" and "The Incident". In 1969, Dee appeared in 20 episodes of "Peyton Place". She appeared as Cora Sanders, a Marxist college professor, in the Season 1/Episode 14 of "Police Woman", entitled "Target Black" which aired on Friday night, January 3, 1975. The character of Cora Sanders was obviously, but loosely, influenced by the real-life Angela Y. Davis. She appeared in one episode of "The Golden Girls sixth season. She played Queen Haley in ', a 1979 miniseries.