Deborah Lynn Watson is a retired American movie and television actress.

[2] Watson got her start on television as a hopeful on Ted Mack and the Original Amateur Hour in 1963.

[3] She went on to star as the boy-struck teenage girl Karen Scott in the 1964 situation comedy television series Karen,[4][5] the only portion of the largely unsuccessful 90 Bristol Court (which also included Harris Against the World and Tom, Dick and Mary) to last the entirety of the 1964-1965 season.

[4][7] The actress was a Universal Pictures starlet at the time, and the studio used Watson to replace Pat Priest, who had played Marilyn through most of The Munsters TV sitcom series.

In 1973 she married Ronald L Taylor (now a retired Superior Court Judge), and they had a son, Dylan.