 Edwards later hired Gist to helm episodes of the TV series "Peter Gunn".Gist also directed episodes of TV shows "Naked City", "The Twilight Zone", "Route 66" and many others.Gist directed the world premiere of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Conversation at Midnight", produced by Worley Thorne and Susan Davis, in November 1961, on stage, at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles.