During the McCarthy era the Robisons were charged and questioned by a committee in a televised hearing. With both parents on the Hollywood blacklist and out of work, the family was suddenly without financial resources and was compelled to move to New York State to live with her grandmother on her farm. After about five years, David Robison was able to start writing again under a pen name and found success in television, writing for "Lassie", "Bewitched", and "The Andy Griffith Show". When the blacklist came to an end, he resumed writing under his own name again. His play, "Promenade, All", with a star cast which included Hume Cronyn, Eli Wallach and Ann Jackson, played on Broadway in 1972. His daughter's love of theater has never left her over the years.