In 1962, Vivyan appeared twice on the syndicated western anthology Death Valley Days. That same year he appeared as Shelly Hanson in NBC's modern-day western, Empire, starring Richard Egan as rancher Jim Redigo, in the episode "Down There, the World". He appeared on two CBS sitcoms: Lucille Ball's The Lucy Show (1963 episode, "Lucy Becomes a Reporter") and Petticoat Junction as Lane Haggard ("Visit from a Big Star", 1964).