[3] Pflug attended Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida[citation needed] and then transferred to the University of Miami, where she received her BA in broadcasting and her minor in American history.

Her background in interviewing led her to be the first woman to have a live weekly TV talk show in the late 1960s in Los Angeles on KHJ-TV, channel 9.

Pflug's first major role was as U.S. Army nurse Lt. Maria "Dish" Schneider in the 1970 film M*A*S*H.[7] Also in 1970, she starred in the "To Carry the Sun in a Golden Cup" episode of Marcus Welby, M.D.

[8] Later roles include Boss Jack's wife in Traveller (1997) and Cynthia Vaughn in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997).

[6] Pflug married American game and talk show host Chuck Woolery in 1972 at the Knowles Memorial Chapel at Rollins College in Orlando, Florida.