After beginning her acting career in off-Broadway theatre, Saylor relocated to Los Angeles in 1973 and worked primarily as a B movie actress prior to landing the female lead in the short-lived (10 episodes) NBC-TVscience fiction series The Fantastic Journey. The show premiered on February 3, 1977, with Saylor playing Liana, "daughter of an Atlantean father and an extraterrestrial mother", who was introduced in the second episode. Saylor appeared in seven episodes, then was absent from the last two episodes of the series. She retired from acting due to illness at that time.
Personal life
Saylor married attorney Harvey Strassman in November 1976. Strassman represented Noah Dietrich in Dietrich's lawsuit against his long-time employer Howard Hughes.[2][3] As of 2012[update], Katie and Harvey Strassman resided in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles.[4]
