After "Remington Steele" ended, she starred in the TV movie remake of "If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium" (1987) and the National Lampoon's "Christmas Vacation" (1989). She appeared on "Alice", playing the mother of the title character (played by her former Broadway co-star Linda Lavin); on "Barney Miller" in two different roles, as the wife of a man who secretly visits a sex surrogate, and (in three episodes) as the harried wife of a middle-aged man who occasionally makes erratic decisions to give his life meaning; and on "Full House" as Danny Tanner's mother, Claire. She played the unhinged Flo Flotsky on four episodes of "Soap"; Dorelda Doremus, a faith healer, on "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"; and lonely Aunt Edna on "Step by Step".