Linda didn’t get the part — Mariette Hartley did — and the show didn’t survive beyond the pilot stage, but she did land a role as a doctor on the 1977 ABC series Westside Medical.
In 1978-79, she played the reporter girlfriend of Ron Leibman‘s convict turned criminal defence attorney on CBS’ short-lived Kaz.
She later appeared on episodes of WKRP in Cincinnati, Lou Grant, Remington Steele, St. Elsewhere, Cagney & Lacey, Clueless, Days of Our Lives, NYPD Blue and Passions.
Carlson funded scholarships at the Village for Children & Families in Hartford, Connecticut, and at the Virginia Avenue Project in Los Angeles, where she also served as a board member and president, her family said.
source: express.co.uk