She also worked on Garner's series Nichols, as well as The Greatest American Hero, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and several others.
Although she was born in San Francisco, Bartlett spent her early years in Honolulu, Hawaii, after her family moved there.
[2] Bartlett worked for Roy Huggins, Stephen J. Cannell, and Meta Rosenberg, and also became a producer as well as a writer.
After the last In the Heat of the Night movie aired after Hugh O'Connor died, Juanita Bartlett Productions ceased to exist.
In 1979 and 1980, Bartlett was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for her work on The Rockford Files.