He appeared in the television movie "The Night Strangler" as the villain, Dr. Richard Malcolm. Anderson was just as busy in the 1980s on "Charlie's Angels", "Matt Houston", "Knight Rider", "Remington Steele", "Cover Up", "The A-Team", "The Fall Guy", "Simon & Simon", and "Murder, She Wrote". He played murderer Ken Braddock in the first two-hour episode of the revived "Perry Mason", starring Raymond Burr, titled "Perry Mason Returns" (1985), Anderson had a recurring role as Senator Buck Fallmont on "Dynasty" from 1986 to 1987. He portrayed President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1987 miniseries "Hoover vs. The Kennedys".