The Big Valley
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she did guest roles on television. Olson guest-starred on the Television series "The Big Valley" playing the mother of Ron Howard in the December 1, 1965, episode entitled "Night of the Wolf". Olson is the only female guest starring on "The Big Valley" to ever marry the character Nick Barkley. Olson has been retired since the mid-1980s, although she made a brief, uncredited appearance in "Flubber", the 1997 remake of "The Absent-Minded Professor".