 During the early 1960s San Francisco Bay Area television station KPIX-TV ran a show named "The KPIX Dance Party" and offered Gutscher the opportunity to become a member of the show's dance group.These were teenage dancers who danced live to the hit songs of the day and became locally known in their own right by being on television six days per week.She was on the show from 1959 until 1962, then moved to Hollywood to get into the film industry, changing her Germanic sounding surname to the French sounding Barbara Bouchet.