Later in the decade, Hershey starred with Charlton Heston in "The Last Hard Men" (1976). She hoped the film would revive her career after the damage she felt it had suffered while she was with Carradine, believing that the hippie label she had been given was a career impediment. By this time, she had shed Carradine and her "Seagull" pseudonym. Throughout the rest of the 1970s, however, she was appearing in made-for-TV movies that were described as "forgettable", like "Flood!" (1976), "Sunshine Christmas" (1977), and "The Glitter Palace" (1977), in which she played a lesbian.