After a short guest appearance in an episode of "Murphy Brown" in 1990, Hatcher's next TV series role, in 1991, was in the Norman Lear creation "Sunday Dinner", a comedy. She co-starred as 30-year-old lawyer in a mostly physical relationship with a widowed businessman twice her age, played by Robert Loggia. The series had a brief run on CBS that summer but was not renewed. She also acted in the television crime movie "Dead in the Water" (1991) in which she plays Bryan Brown's lawyer's young, attractive temptress secretary, and in the low-budget erotic thriller "The Cool Surface" (not released until 1994), wherein she plays a young actress who has an ill-fated romance with an enigmatic, unsettled screenwriter. In 1992, Hatcher tried out for the role of Jamie Buchman on "Mad About You" and made it to the final two choices, but lost the part to Helen Hunt.