She also appeared in many telefilms between 1967 and 1998, including: "Damn Yankees!", "Sadbird", "The Morning After", "Jerry", "Like Mom, Like Me", "The $5.20 an Hour Dream", "Another Woman's Child", "Maricela", "Lena: My 100 Children", "Whitewash", "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story", "Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden", "For the Future: The Irvine Fertility Scandal", "The Ring", and "Best Friends for Life". Lavin produced and starred in "A Matter of Life and Death", the 1981 telefilm based on the work of nurse thanatologist Joy Ufema. She directed the 1990 telefilm "Flour Babies".