Pringle also appeared in many TV shows, including The Waltons, Sanford and Son (1974), That's My Mama (1974), The Bionic Woman (1977), and Kojak. In That's My Mama, Pringle replaced Lynne Moody as Tracy Curtis Taylor for Season 2 in 1975. Pringle also appeared in a Barnaby Jones episode titled, “The Deadly Valentine” (03/31/1977). Pringle starred as Ruth Marshall in the daytime drama Generations from 1989 to 1991 for NBC. Recent guest roles from film and television include Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls and on Girlfriends as Carol Hart, the mother of Tracee Ellis Ross's character Joan Clayton. Pringle also guest-appeared in a Season 1 episode of Friends as Dr
Oberman in The One with the Sonogram at the End. She also was a star in the movie J.D.'s Revenge (1976) along with Glynn Turman and Louis Gossett, Jr. Pringle also had a recurring role as Flex's mother on the sitcom One on One.