She became more interested in working in television than acting, preferring a three-week assignment in the medium over a ten-week touring production in Ireland.
[1] She was the first female floor manager to work for the BBC, her non-gendered credit being a means of avoiding problems with prospective technical crews.
[1] Although she appeared in the first two episodes of The Quatermass Experiment (1953), her main role was a production assistant for television director Rudolph Cartier.
[3][4] In the Studio 4 series, she appeared on screen in the Cartier directed Holocaust drama Doctor Korczak and the Children (1962) instructing the actors on the roles they were to perform.
[6] She directed three further Doctor Who serials: Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974), Pyramids of Mars (1975), and Horror of Fang Rock (1977).