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Police Woman is an American television police drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran from September 13 , 1974 to March 29 , 1978 on NBC.

Synopsis

The show revolved around Sgt. Leann "Pepper" Anderson (Angie Dickinson), an undercover agent working for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the LAPD. Sergeant William "Bill" Crowley (Earl Holliman) was her immediate superior, and Pete Royster (Charles Dierkop) and Joe Styles (Ed Bernard) were the other half of the undercover team that investigated everything from murders to rape and drug crimes. In many episodes, Pepper went undercover (as a prostitute, teacher, nurse, dancer, waitress, etc.) in order to get close enough to the suspects to gain valuable information that would lead to their arrest.

It is not only considered to be the first 'successful' series to focus on a female police officer, but also the first 'successful' primetime drama series to feature a woman in the title role.

As the first spin-off of the Police Story (1973-1978) anthology series, Police Woman was so successful in its first season in particular, that during that first Spring and Summer rerun season, the show hit Number One on the ratings charts. Its success paved the way for the more fanciful late-'70s tough-girl programs that followed in its wake, such as Charlie's Angels , Wonder Woman , and The Bionic Woman , as well as the more serious Cagney & Lacey in the 1980s.

"Police Woman" also caused an avalanche of applications for employment from women to police departments around the United States. Sociologists who have in recent years examined the inspiration for long-term female law enforcement officials to adopt this vocation as their own have been surprised by how often "Police Woman" has been referenced, thus seeming to neutralize more strident feminist arguments from the 1970s that the initial portrait of "Pepper" was too sexualized to be constructive, suggesting that many women viewers found the character's balance of toughness in a male-oriented career with that of "traditional" femininity to be appealing.

In February 1976, President Gerald Ford re-scheduled a Tuesday press conference so as not to delay an episode of Police Woman , reportedly his favorite show.

Several episodes from the first season are available to view for free in Minisode format on Crackle.

References

1. ^ Angie Keeps on Going , People Magazine, Nov. 27, 1978, p. 120

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