Joan Prather

Joan Prather, an American actress from Dallas, is perhaps best known for playing Janet McArthur Bradford on Eight Is Enough. Her earliest stage credit came in a Dallas mounting of Under Milk Wood, and she went on to appear in advertisements for Adidas, Coca-Cola, Folgers, and Ivory Soap. Her films include Smile (1975), The Devil's Rain (1975), Big Bad Mama (1974), and The Single Girls (1974). She also appeared in Take This Job and Shove It (1981) and Rabbit Test (1978). For television, she worked on Executive Suite, CHiPs, and Fantasy Island, and took part in the 1980 Battle of the Network Stars. As a teenager, she danced on Sump'n Else, a Dallas teen program that aired from 1965 to 1968. She turned down the title character's wife in Welcome Back, Kotter as too dull, and passed on Allison MacKenzie in Return to Peyton Place.