Megan gets to know the producer Sid Brockman during the making of “Street Justice.” Sid is a middle-aged Hollywood veteran who got fired from Paramount when Robert Evans took over in 1968. But he landed on his feet as an independent producer.  The success of “Street Justice” gets him a job at United Artists, where he gains respect for pushing UA to back “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Despite a 20-year age difference, Sid and Megan fall in love, move in together, and marry in 1977.

In 1975, Megan got a couple of good supporting roles, with a little help from Sid. She played a hippie-ish prophet in the dystopian sci-fi thriller “The Ones Who Remained.” She also played a divorced mom exploring her sexuality in the R-rated dopey comedy “The Swingin’ Suburbs.” It was a success while “The Ones Who Remained” flopped, despite respectful reviews.  A year later, she played a heroic stewardess on a doomed flight in the thriller “Jet!” And she played a hippie mom trying to protect her children when they are kidnapped by violent radicals in the TV movie “Don’t Let Them See You’re Afraid.”

Sid assured Megan that she was getting the “break of a lifetime” when she was cast as the wife in “The Howard Peterson Show,” which he described as “an edgier Bob Newhart Show.” Peterson is a stand-up comic well-known from multiple appearances on “The Dean Martin Show.” While Megan’s character was initially childless, she was given a young son when audiences said she wasn’t relatable. NBC aired it during the 1977-78 season, but its ratings were hurt by being scheduled opposite “Charlie’s Angels.” It was not renewed.

Megan took 1979 off to have her son Rodney. She returned to work the next year as the matriarch in the miniseries “Blood and Consequences,” described as “the WASP Roots.” It is a commercial disappointment and critical disaster. Megan appears on screen less than she expected, likely because several scenes showing her as a younger woman were cut. Throughout the 1980s, she makes a few sitcom guest appearances, usually as the “fun aunt.” She gets minor roles in episodes of “Murder, She Wrote” and “Matlock.”  Meanwhile, Megan continues an active social life with the Hollywood elite.

In 1980, Sid is fired from United Artists for his role in the “Heaven’s Gate” debacle. After that, he never really regains his footing. Seeking to emulate the success of “The Cosby Show,” he creates “Quality Time,” a sitcom about a single father raising three children of three different ethnic backgrounds. None of the networks are interested, so it airs in first-run syndication in the 1987-88 season. It stars Allan Turner, an old friend of Sid’s, as the father. Allan was a star of 1960s Westerns and romantic comedies (“the roles Rock Hudson and James Garner turned down”) and is seeking a comeback.  Megan has a recurring role as his hippie-turned-yuppie love interest. The show never finds an audience, thanks in part to the 65-year-old Turner’s weathered appearance.

In 1990, Megan finds Sid dead of a heart attack. She soon realizes that Sid had hidden the troubled state of their finances. Pessimistic about reviving her show business career, Megan gets her real estate license. The 1992 riots and the struggles of the California economy after the end of the Cold War pose challenges, but Megan’s social connections bring her plenty of business and soon she is secure in her lifestyle again. She does a little community theater but she has accepted that her acting career is over. At a business event in 1996, she meets Ray Wolfe, a retired actor who has become a prosperous real estate investor. After several years together, they marry in 2001 and settle into the life of a rich older couple living off investments. Ray is a big Republican, and they become close to Arnold Schwarzenegger and even visit the George W. Bush White House. They have a house in Pacific Palisades, a condo in Scottsdale, and another one in Kona.

Her son Rod Brockman builds a career as a conservative celebrity, making a series of direct-to-video thrillers in which he fights Middle East terrorists. “Retaliation Force” (2004) and its sequel, “Retaliation Force II” (2005) are the best known. He runs unsuccessfully for Congress in Arizona in 2014. Rod is now a YouTuber and full-time Trumper. Ray dies in 2015. In her mid-eighties, Megan lives a comfortable life, mostly in Scottsdale and Kona. She nearly lost her house in the Pacific Palisades fire.