Spelling said that when he told Jackson the title of the series had to be changed and asked her what she would like to call it, she replied, Charlie's Angels, pointing to a picture of three female angels on the wall behind Spelling. Goldberg told her of a series that was available-because "every network has passed on it", The Alley Cats. In 1975, Jackson met with Rookies producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg to discuss her contractual obligation to star in another television series for Spelling/Goldberg Productions upon that show's cancellation. During her monologue, she referred to being an NBC page ten years earlier where she led tours of the studio. Jackson hosted the thirteenth episode of season four of Saturday Night Live which aired in February 1979. She also appeared in an all-star ensemble cast in Death Scream, a 1975 television dramatization of the circumstances surrounding a real-life 1964 murder as reported in a sensational article in The New York Times. Jackson's performance was well received in the 1972 independent film Limbo, one of the first theatrical films to address the Vietnam War and the wives of soldiers who were POWs, MIA or killed in action (KIA). She also appeared in several TV films during this period. A supporting cast member, Jackson filled her free time by studying directing and editing.
She then appeared as nurse Jill Danko, wife of Mike Danko, played by Sam Melville, for four seasons on the 1970s crime drama The Rookies. The same year, she worked with James Stewart in two episodes of the short-lived sitcom, The Jimmy Stewart Show. This movie was more loosely based on the series than House of Dark Shadows was, and it did not fare as well at the box office as the first film. She was joined by her Dark Shadows castmates Lara Parker, David Selby, Grayson Hall, Nancy Barrett, John Karlen, and Thayer David.
In 1971, Jackson had a starring role as Tracy Collins in Night of Dark Shadows, the second feature film based on the daytime serial. Jackson worked as an NBC page at the network's Rockefeller Center studios and did summer stock at the Stowe Playhouse in Stowe, Vermont before landing a role as the mysterious, silent ghost Daphne Harridge on the 1960s supernatural daytime quasi- soap opera Dark Shadows. She attended The Brooke Hill School for Girls while residing in Mountain Brook and then went on to the University of Mississippi, where she was a member of the Delta Rho chapter of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, but during her sophomore year at the University of Mississippi, she moved to New York City to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Jackson was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the daughter of Ruth (née Shepherd) and Hogan Jackson, a business executive.
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