Back in Hollywood shortly before her eighteenth birthday, Hugueny was photographed attending Bob Ender's twist party with TV's Dr. Kildare, Richard Chamberlain, but found that leaving for New York and putting her contract with Warner Bros. on hold, had damaged her career prospects.
The first of her 1962 shows was a third appearance on 77 Sunset Strip, in the March 2 Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. episode, "Twice Dead", which cast her as the daughter of Margaret Hayes and did not provide her character with a love interest.