During the 1950s and 1960s she made dozens of guest appearances on such television programs as The Twilight Zone 1959 Dr Kildare 1961 The Felony Squad 1966 Gunsmoke 1955 Daniel Boone 1964 and Mannix 1967 She had a short role as Doris Schuster on Peyton Place 1964 She also appeared on daytimes Bright Promise 1969 as Ann Boyd Jones 19701972 Kobe began to work behind the camera as supervising producer and associate producer on such daytime programs as The Edge of Night 1956 and Return to Peyton Place 1972 In 1982 she became executive producer of Texas 1980 during its final few months She then became executive producer of Guiding Light 1952 where she stayed from 1982 to 1987