In 1956, with the HUAC's influence subsiding, she co-starred in Rod Serling's Peabody Award-winning teleplay on "Playhouse 90", "Requiem for a Heavyweight". The telecast won multiple Emmy Awards, including Best Single Program of the Year. She appeared opposite Mickey Rooney in the 1957 live CBS-TV broadcast of "The Comedian," another drama written by Rod Serling and directed by John Frankenheimer. In 1959, she appeared in "Rawhide" in "Incident of the Misplaced Indians" as Amelia Spaulding. In 1962, she appeared in the NBC medical drama "The Eleventh Hour" in the role of Virginia Hunter in the episode "Of Roses and Nightingales and Other Lovely Things". In 1963, Hunter appeared as Anita Anson on the ABC medical drama "Breaking Point" in the episode "Crack in an Image". In 1964 Hunter appeared in the 'Alfred Hitchcock Hour' episode "The Evil of Adelaide Winters" in the title role. In 1965, she appeared twice as Emily Field in the NBC TV medical series "Dr. Kildare." In 1967, she appeared in the pilot episode of "Mannix". On February 4, 1968, she appeared as Ada Halle in the NBC TV Western series "Bonanza" in the episode "The Price of Salt".