Juanita Bartlett obit

Juanita Laulee Bartlett Has Died

 

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Juanita Bartlett (28 February 1927 – 25 February 2014) was a television writer best known for The Rockford Files and The New Maverick, both starring James Garner. Bartlett also worked on Garner's series Nichols, as well as The Greatest American Hero, Scarecrow and Mrs. 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: For 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.

Producer

The Rockford Files: If It Bleeds... It Leads (1999)

The Rockford Files: If It Bleeds... It Leads

7.1

TV Movie

producer

1999

 

The Rockford Files: Shoot-Out at the Golden Pagoda (1997)

The Rockford Files: Shoot-Out at the Golden Pagoda

7.3

TV Movie

executive producer

1997

 

The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime (1996)

The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime

7.1

TV Movie

executive producer

1996

 

James Luisi in The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play (1996)

The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play

7.5

TV Movie

executive producer

1996

 

The Rockford Files: Godfather Knows Best (1996)

The Rockford Files: Godfather Knows Best

7.1

TV Movie

executive producer

1996

 

The Rockford Files: If the Frame Fits... (1996)

The Rockford Files: If the Frame Fits...

7.6

TV Movie

executive producer

1996

 

The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise (1995)

The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise

7.3

TV Movie

executive producer

1995

 

The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A. (1994)

The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.

7.5

TV Movie

executive producer

1994

 

Charlie

6.0

TV Movie

executive producer

1990

 

In the Heat of the Night (1988)

In the Heat of the Night

7.6

TV Series

executive producer

1988

8 episodes

 

Avery Brooks and Robert Urich in Spenser: For Hire (1985)

Spenser: For Hire

7.3

TV Series

executive producer

1986–1987

22 episodes

 

Bruce Boxleitner and Kate Jackson in Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983)

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

7.0

TV Series

executive producer

1984–1985

27 episodes

 

No Man's Land (1984)

No Man's Land

6.4

TV Movie

executive producer

1984

 

The Greatest American Hero (1981)

The Greatest American Hero

7.3

TV Series

co-executive producer

1981–1983

30 episodes

 

Noah Beery Jr., Karen Austin, Perry King, and Ray Vitte in The Quest (1982)

The Quest

7.4

TV Series

executive producer

1982

1 episode

 

Melissa Sue Anderson in Midnight Offerings (1981)

Midnight Offerings

5.8

TV Movie

co-executive producer

1981

 

Jeff Goldblum and Ben Vereen in Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (1980)

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

7.5

TV Series

co-executive producer

1980

10 episodes

 

Noah Beery Jr. and James Garner in The Rockford Files (1974)

The Rockford Files

8.2

TV Series

producer

supervising producer

1979–1980

12 episodes

 

Stone (1979)

Stone

6.8

TV Series

co-producer

1979–1980

 

Additional Crew

Noah Beery Jr. and James Garner in The Rockford Files (1974)

The Rockford Files

8.2

TV Series

executive story consultant

story editor

creative consultant

1974–1979

107 episodes

 

Writer

The Rockford Files: If It Bleeds... It Leads (1999)

The Rockford Files: If It Bleeds... It Leads

7.1

TV Movie

story

1999

 

The Rockford Files: Shoot-Out at the Golden Pagoda (1997)

The Rockford Files: Shoot-Out at the Golden Pagoda

7.3

TV Movie

written by

1997

 

The Rockford Files: If the Frame Fits... (1996)

The Rockford Files: If the Frame Fits...

7.6

TV Movie

written by

1996

 

The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A. (1994)

The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.

7.5

TV Movie

written by

1994

 

Charlie

6.0

TV Movie

Writer

1990

 

Avery Brooks and Robert Urich in Spenser: For Hire (1985)

Spenser: For Hire

7.3

TV Series

teleplay

1986

1 episode

 

Bruce Boxleitner and Kate Jackson in Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983)

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

7.0

TV Series

written by

teleplay

1984–1985

5 episodes

 

No Man's Land (1984)

No Man's Land

6.4

TV Movie

Writer

1984

 

Noah Beery Jr., Karen Austin, Perry King, and Ray Vitte in The Quest (1982)

The Quest

7.4

TV Series

created by

written by (creator)

1982

9 episodes

 

The Greatest American Hero (1981)

The Greatest American Hero

7.3

TV Series

written by

1981

5 episodes

 

Melissa Sue Anderson in Midnight Offerings (1981)

Midnight Offerings

5.8

TV Movie

written by

1981

 

Jeff Goldblum and Ben Vereen in Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (1980)

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

7.5

TV Series

written by

1980

3 episodes

 

Stone (1979)

Stone

6.8

TV Series

writer

1980

1 episode

 

Noah Beery Jr. and James Garner in The Rockford Files (1974)

The Rockford Files

8.2

TV Series

written by

story by

teleplay by

1974–1979

33 episodes

 

The New Maverick (1978)

The New Maverick

6.3

TV Movie

Writer

1978

 

Jodie Foster and Christopher Connelly in Paper Moon (1974)

Paper Moon

7.0

TV Series

written by

1974

1 episode

 

Melissa Sue Anderson, Melissa Gilbert, Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Richard Bull, Sidney Greenbush, Jonathan Gilbert, Rachel Lindsay Greenbush, and Katherine MacGregor in Little House on the Prairie (1974)

Little House on the Prairie

7.5

TV Series

written by

1974

2 episodes

 

Susan Strasberg, Tony Musante, and Simon Oakland in Toma (1973)

Toma

7.5

TV Series

teleplay

1974

2 episodes

 

Planet Earth (1974)

Planet Earth

5.7

TV Movie

teleplay

1974

 

Robert Carradine, Mitch Brown, Jim Davis, Diana Douglas, Moses Gunn, Clint Howard, Sean Kelly, Kerry MacLane, A Martinez, and Clay O'Brien in The Cowboys (1974)

The Cowboys

6.6

TV Series

writer

1974

1 episode

 

Bill Bixby in The Magician (1973)

The Magician

7.5

TV Series

teleplay

1973

1 episode

 

Cool Million (1972)

Cool Million

7.1

TV Series

teleplay by

1972

2 episodes

 

Bonanza (1959)

Bonanza

7.3

TV Series

story

1972

1 episode

 

Pete Duel and Ben Murphy in Alias Smith and Jones (1971)

Alias Smith and Jones

7.6

TV Series

writer

1972

1 episode

 

Nichols (1971)

Nichols

7.6

TV Series

written by

teleplay

writer

1971–1972

5 episodes