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My favorite part was during the opening credits when she is undercover as a hooker. A White guy approaches her and asks how much. Sh quotes him a ridiculous price and he calls her a nagger (or something similar that JTS won't allow). So she calls him a nagger lover. Ha. Priceless.

this was my all time favorite show as a child

Having read the opinion of the last poster directly above, I respectfully disagree. Get Christie Love was, in my opinion, given ample time to succeed. Just because a show is yanked after one season does not mean the network was ‘prejudiced.’ I think that’s utter nonsense. It seems so easy nowadays to throw words like ‘prejudice’ and ‘discrimination’ around that they’ve become knee-jerk buzzwords. Words that are intended to make others cower in a corner and be too afraid to respond. Well, I am responding. This show sucked on ice from the get-go. It was intended as a spoof and not as a realistic cop show. Any third grader can figure that out, so I am not claiming that GCL jumped the shark from day one because it was too fantastic. So was Get Smart, and it was a spy spoof that WORKED. Get Christie Love did NOT. Many shows are cancelled after the first season and it has nothing to do with discrimination but everything to do with crappy acting, silly plotlines and bad casting. This show was simply one of those. If the network execs were so prejudiced, they would never have agreed to air this crummy show in the first place. Why would they promote it and run with it if they were only going to yank it later because of prejudice? I don’t understand that logic. Get Christie Love did, indeed, JTS from day one. It was just a bad, bad show. Peace.

GET CHRISTIE LOVE jumped from day one. This ludicrous ABC series about a black female police detective, played by LAUGH-IN'S Theresa Graves, jus produced a lot of unintentional giggles. Did you just want to smack the woman every time she said, "You're under arrest, Sugah" Please. When they realized the show was dying, they made a last ditch attempt to raise the sagging ratings by importing several LAUGH-IN cast members to guest star, but this didn't help either.

JTS from the get-go! The story of brassy, sassy undercover detective with the Special Investigations Unit of the LAPD, “Get Christie Love” and was a crime in itself. A lady who not only gets her man, but also gets to sass him as she slips on the handcuffs. “You’re under arrest, sugar,” Christie repeats in every raunchy embarrassingly bad episode. Teresa Graves, rest her soul, did the best she could given the material but everything about this show is completely trite, and quite unbelievable. Ms. Graves must share some of the blame as well, as her contract with the producers was unique. Because of her devotion to the Jehovah Witnesses faith, Teresa was staunch ‘anti-violence’ advocate and had it stipulated that Christie would never kill anyone on the show, never tell a direct lie, and that no profanity was to be uttered. What’s a cop show without killing, lying, and swearing? If Christie is up against four or five ex-football player types turned bad boys – no problem: she gives them a few trusty arm thrusts and few swift kicks to the head and whammo! – they are arrested and convicted just like that! This was a low budget show by all of TV’s standards that depended totally on the drawing power of Teresa Graves, hot off of “Laugh-In,” but sank in the Nielsen ratings pool. To help ensure its quick demise the geniuses at ABC stupidly pitted the show opposite the vastly superior “Police Woman” which in the end was probably a godsend to all of us.

The first time I heard of it, I was thinking along the lines of Agatha Christie. That didn't seem to be too far off the premise of this show, if you threw in a little Cleopatra Jones and Foxy Brown for good measure. If this isn't ahead of your time, nothing is.

Yes , I was just a little budding feminist when I thought That Christie was the coolest thing on tv. The tv movie didn't do her justice. I wish she had been given more time.... But I would guess that she planted the seed for Cagney & Lacey,Florence on the Jeffersons, Jackee & others...

Let's see, I was around 12 when this show was on, and I thought it was great! I remember thinking how cool it was to have a black chick be the star, and a totally cool gun carrying detective at that! I also loved Mannix, and never thought Peggy got the play she deserved, so this show kind of made up for that in my book.