Television
In 1954, NBC-TV borrowed the studios of WPIX every weekday morning. Parrish was employed by NBC as its 'human test pattern' in regard to color tones. She sat for hours on a stool in front of color cameras, while engineers adjusted the tints and the lighting, and worked with costumes in different tints. Parrish was seldom seen on WNBC, Channel 4, since most of her color work was performed on closed-circuit television.
Parrish appeared in three episodes of Perry Mason, playing three different characters, in 1960 and 1961. She was in an episode of the Kraft Suspense Theatre, "The Kamchatka Incident" (1964). She performed with John Forsythe in a drama which concerned a U.S.-bound airplane's encounter with Russian fighter planes above Siberia. She had earlier worked with Forsythe in a 1962 episode of Bachelor Father, playing petulant actress Kim Fontaine. She has made numerous television appearances, including a role in the Star Trek episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?" (1967), in which Parrish plays Lieutenant Carolyn Palamas, who becomes the lust object of the Greek god Apollo. In the 1971 series Bearcats!, she played Liz Blake, an ex-love of lead character Hack Brackett, who is helped by him when her oil business is threatened by a series of mysterious fires.
In the TV series Logan's Run (1977), Parrish played the commander of an alien space ship on a Noah's Ark-type mission to gather and study specimens of beings from planets in different solar systems.
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