Career
Bartlett also worked on Garner"s series Nichols, as well as The Greatest American Hero, Scarecrow and Mistress King, and several others Bartlett worked for Roy Huggins, Stephen J. Cannell, and Meta Rosenberg, and also became a producer as well as a writer
Huggins noted in a videotaped interview for the Archive of American Television that Bartlett was the only writer with whom he ever worked who changed the structure of some of Huggins" stories and actually improved them.
In 1986, Juanita Bartlett went on to create her own production company originally known as Jadda Productions. Jadda Productions" first production was the second season of Spenser: Foreign Hire, and would later go on to produce the show In the Heat of the Night when it premiered on March 6, 1988.
When the second season of In the Heat of the Night premiered, the production company was renamed Juanita Bartlett Productions. After the last In the Heat of the Night movie aired after Hugh O"Connor died, Juanita Bartlett Productions ceased to exist.
Bartlett died on February 25, 2014, three days shy of her 87th birthday.