- In 1987, after Dickson left The Young and the Restless (1973), she hosted a vanity video production titled "Welcome to My home," for which she is also credited as writer, director, and executive producer. It resurfaced in several video-based websites twenty years later and has gained unintentional camp status for not only Dickson's outdated fashion show, but also for her makeup, fitness, and nutritional advice.
- In 1988, Dickson was being considered for the role of Sally Spectra on 'The Bold and the Beautiful'. However, was turned down in favor of Darlene Conley.
- In 1988, a year after she was fired from The Young and the Restless (1973), she won the Most Outstanding Villainess Award at the Soap Opera Digest Awards. Her bitterness over her dismissal from the top-rated daytime soap opera was not evident in her acceptance speech as she was gracious and fun.
- Won the title of Miss California World at a beauty pageant when she was seventeen years old.
- She left The Young and the Restless (1973) in 1980 to marry a prominent dentist named Robert Rifkin. However, her real-life role as a housewife did not work out, and they divorced. In 1983, she returned to playing Jill again.
- Her performance as Jill during the 1980s is said to have helped The Young and the Restless (1973) reach the top of the ratings.
- In 1973, she originated the role of Jill Foster Abbott on the daytime serial The Young and the Restless (1973). In the film Taxi Driver (1976), Robert De Niro's character kicks down his television set when he watches Dickson play Jill.
- In May 2013, Blue Boulevard Productions released her memoir: "My True Hidden Hollywood Story: My Memoir of Sexual Harassment, Blacklisting, and Love Affairs with the Most Powerful Men in Hollywood".
- Changed her hair color over the years from a brunette to a redhead to currently a blonde.
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