Fields previously appeared in the television series Telephone Time (1957), The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1957), Mister Ed (1958), Lassie (1958), The Donna Reed Show (1959), and The Rifleman (1960, with Paul Fix and Arnold Moss), and had a recurring role as Richy Gordon in The Ann Sothern Story (1960, along Arch Whiting in one episode). Fields also appeared in the 1969 musical drama Sweet Charity along Ricardo Montalban and Ben Vereen.