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In the 1970s, she played Bob Newhart's mother on The Bob Newhart Show.

She also played Patricia Shepard, Sue Ellen and Kristin's controlling mother on Dallas and Lee Majors ' mother on The Six Million Dollar Man.

She was also a surrogate mother of sorts to Lindsay Wagner on The Bionic Woman.

In 1975, she portrayed Gena Rowlands ' wealthy mother, who is murdered by her son-in-law ( played by Oskar Werner ) in Playback, an episode of Columbo.

In 1983, she appeared in an episode of Magnum, P. I., and in the television movie Adam.

In the late 1980s, she and Jeffrey Lynn acted in an episode of Murder, She Wrote, which was a direct sequel to their 1949 feature film Strange Bargain.