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police woman was awesome,70's tv was the best.i was 16 when it came on.angie dickinson was the most beautiful woman on tv or movies.earl was handsome in a rugged way.i always wanted bill and pepper to get together on the show.i am sure that they had a little something going on,i hoped so anyway.i bought the dvd,when it came out.hope to see the other seasons soon.#1 fan...kelli crosland
I never liked this show.
Angie Dickinson’s character was the classic Hollywood approach to the “new woman” – give her a guy’s job, but make sure she didn’t do any guy things. When the bad guy had to be brought in, it was usually her male detectives that did the physical stuff. There was the occasional exception to the rule, but that’s what it was.
An exception.
Angie Dickinson’s character was the classic Hollywood approach to the “new woman” – give her a guy’s job, but make sure she didn’t do any guy things. When the bad guy had to be brought in, it was usually her male detectives that did the physical stuff. There was the occasional exception to the rule, but that’s what it was.
An exception.
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The show NEVER jumped the shark. The whole crew was great! It was a super cool production. Angie Dickinson was absoulutely magic on that screen. Earl Holliman was a cool azz dude. Charlie and Ed were the best!! I loved this show. I was 4 when it aired and 8 when it went off the air. Everything about that show was the greatest. And for all of ya'll saying that Angie Dickinson was too old to play a cop, please, she looked beautiful. And nobody could wear slacks like she did. You work it girl!!
Police woman "jumped the shark" when the producers bowed to public opinion. The feminists [who were themselves, no doubt, as sexy as a wet blanket] complained that the first series was too "overtly sexual". Whilst that may be true, at first the producers seemed to think, if you have got it flaunt it! My god! did Angie Dickinson ever have it! She was 43 when the series started in 1974, but she had the body of a woman half her age, & a face men drool over. She usually went undercover playing nurses, go-go dancers & prostitutes etc.,but she could get away with it because she was so darn sexy! Angie, in my opinion, was one of the three sexiest ladies on seventies TV. The others were Farrah Fawcett on Charlies Angels & Pamela Hensley on Buck Rogers, but if i had to pick a favourite, i would plump for Angie Dickinson.
I have a lot of mixed feelings about NBC's POLICE WOMAN starring Angie Dickinson as Sgt. Pepper Anderson. Pepper just didn't seem to be very good at her job. The only thing she really knew how to do was work undercover as a hooker. She didn't have any detective skills and she didn't have any self-defense skills either. I don't remember ever seeing Pepper execute a karate chop or a judo flip on anyone. Earl Holliman always had to come to her rescue. As silly as I thought the character was, I must confess to watching this show faithfully every Friday night. I guess, in truth, POLICE WOMAN jumped from day one, but I still watched it.
Very hard to believe the concept of this show, having a still hot (I'd still do her!) Angie Dickinson playing a very feminine police gal, who can get tough as nails when needed. I just never bought into this plot. I did however, enjoy the opening credits when they would show the prototype 70's police chase scene with Earl Holloman chasing a bad guy, doing a barrel roll over a car to catch him, all the while keeping his gun drawn. It was all shark after that ended.
Its kind of hard to pinpoint exactly when “Police Woman” JTS, but nonetheless its always worth a watch whenever a station chooses to rerun it. Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman, Ed Bernard, and Charles Dierkop (all terrific actors), helped keep this show going despite producer David Gerber’s continued bad habit of saddling them with subpar material. Remember, this is the same man who gave the TV world such unforgettable wonders as “David Cassidy - Man Undercover,” “Walking Tall,” “Riker,” & “Lady Blue.” Because this was the first successful police drama starring a woman, Gerber unwisely thought he could coast on gimmick-factor alone regardless of the weak ‘undercover hooker/waitress/stewardess’ stories week after week. That essentially seem to be the core of Gerber’s TV producing philosophy and it’s an unfortunate one. To the above comment regarding “Amy Prentiss” – That series premiered on the same network (NBC) less than three months after “Police Woman” but had a much shorter life span lasting a mere 3-episodes of 90 minutes each. The premise was also intriguing and something never before seen on television. In a nutshell… Amy Prentiss (Jessica Walter), a single mother and a cop, was suddenly named chief of detectives of the San Francisco Police Department (her immediate superior died). NOTE: A preteen Helen Hunt played Amy’s daughter
I have LOVED Angie Dickinson for years--long before this show: Captain Newman, M.D., Big Bad Mama, etc. I agree that the hard edge the show had (was going for) was smoothed over to the show's detriment. The network apparently DID get spooked by some of the feminist protest (yet another network didn't tinker with Charlie's Angels). Also, I LOVE Earl Holliman--solid, salt of the earth. As for 'age' I agree that Angie's so-called 'aging' had nothing to do with it, but as someone accurately pointed out, they changed the character and the way she was photographed. Sure the undercover stuff was a bit of a stretch--but I also loved her parody of it on SNL. And, as for the feminists who helped KILL this show, (yeah, I said it--and I hate most of the images of women on TV), where were they when the (concurrent) short-lived 'Amy Prentiss' bit the dust? That was a more 'serious' show with a female cop lead (I think she was a higher up) that starred another leggy lady, Jessica Walter. Jessica won the best actress emmy (as did Angie) but that show died.
Say what you will, it was cool to see that sassy Angie "gettin down & funky" in her minis and her famous, breathy "FREEZE! POLICE!" It was the times and the luster wearing off of the novelty that did the show in, that's all - same with "Rockford" & "Baretta" - cool in their own element- just for a while! What was funny to see was Angie herself a few years later on "SNL" still looking great doing that parody..."..on this assignment, you pose as a prostitute, you almost sleep with the drug kingpin...then you BUST HIM!" "...on this next assignment, you pose as a prostitute...etc."! Way to go, girl!
Actually, the episode itself ("Trick Book", opening the third season) was a good one by most accounts. It was just that the show had set itself up as a hard-boiled, ultra-violent series (just watch the opening credits!) and starting with that season, it couldn't be that any more. There must have been behind-the-scenes problems too, because the last regular episode ("Good Old Uncle Ben") was the worst-written and worst-directed episode, seemingly, in dramatic television history. Lines like "If you do [go for that gun], you'll be deader than the meat that's in the truck [rustled cattle]", and a bit where the protagonists stand in front of an elevator for five minutes without a single cutaway from the master shot, make for a show which had WAY outworn its welcome. BTW, at the end of this episode, Pepper and Crowley walk into a restaurant and aim their guns right at the chief villain, who's sitting at a table with a piece of steak halfway to his mouth. Said villain manages to drop the fork, reach under the table to his waistband, pull out a gun and start blasting away (mortally wounding "Uncle Ben" in the process) before Crowley fires his first shot! (Pepper doesn't fire at all. Crowley's first shot MISSES and he waits five seconds before firing again! Again, there are only three or four camera takes in a full five minutes.) Didn't they have ANY respect for themselves? Jeez ...
It jumped the shark long before the last year and it had nothing to do with Angie's aging... The SECOND year of the show, after the feminists complained that it was overly sexual, the network began making sure than even Angie's voice and inflection were not possibly construed as erotic.. to the point that Angie's demeanor became nervous and apologetic, rendering the show lame and unfocused from that point on. The reason she began to look bad was not that she was aging so much, but because they DELIBERATELY stopped using those flattering camera tricks (filters, lighting,etc..) when photographing her so as not too concentrate too much on the sex thing anymore.. The result was stupid-- Angie now looked bad, "Pep" was now a wimp, and the plots & direction followed suit...
On the contrary--after this show died, Angie got Johnny Carson to produce a series where she was a private detective and the opening credits showed a long pair of legs in a short skirt wearing high heel pumps or boots walking around, then finally closing in on a long languid foot-to-head shot of Angie sitting with her feet propped up on a desk. It was just ridiculous and the credits just screamed 'Crass'. Of course, it did die cause Angie was too damned long in the tooth. As for Police Woman, how many times did they trot out the Angie has to dress up as a hooker/model/nurse/airline hostess crap???!!!
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