In 1965, Phillips was a story editor for "Days of Our Lives" and was a story consultant on "Peyton Place" before co-creating "Our Private World", the first primetime series to be spun off from a daytime serial. The series featured the "As the World Turns" character Lisa Miller; the series ran during the spring, summer and early fall of 1965, before being cancelled. She left "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" when CBS censors refused to fully tell a love story involving an Amerasian woman (born out of the love affair in the original film) and a white man. CBS and Twentieth Century-Fox Television were co- producers of the show. All 1,430 episodes of "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" were recorded on videotape at CBS Broadcast Center Studio 41 in New York.