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Police Woman: Season 1

Police Woman

Police Woman: Season 1

Columbia/Tri-Star (1974)
DVD
NR (Not Rated)
043396135147
TV Series | Drama
USA | English | Color | 17:43

Sergeant Pepper Anderson was an undercover agent for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Working with her on the Vice Squad were Detectives Joe Styles and Pete Royster. Pepper posed undercover from mob girl to prostitute, and the team reported directly to Lieutenant Bill Crowley. The pilot episode for 'Police Woman' appeared on 'Police Story' as "The Gamble".


Episodes View details

1 The End Game 49 min | Sep 13, 1974

The police are after a gang of bank robbers made up of 3 men and 2 women. The gang has been very successful and done very little to identify themselves. They have very few leads until Pepper uncovers a clue which leads them to Las Vegas where they believe the gang is from. Soon Pepper, Crowley and other officers are undercover staking out various banks in the hopes of being inside when they strike next.

2 The Beautiful Die Young 49 min | Sep 20, 1974

A complaint from a distressed mother leads the police to investigate the Classic Modeling Agency. It's run by Ted Adrian and is actually a front for his business of supplying young girls to the porn business and overseas white slave trade. Pepper and Crowley use a young trainee to go undercover and pose as a young model to get close to Adrian's business.

3 Warning: All Wives 49 min | Sep 27, 1974

A rapist/killer terrorizes a hospital. His targets are the wives of patients staying at the hospital. Pepper and Bill go undercover to try to flush him out and immediately they think that a very amorous parking attendant is the prime suspect. However, they soon find out that it is someone who is the least likely to commit the crimes.

4 Seven Eleven 49 min | Oct 04, 1974

To find out who's running a complex heroin smuggling chain, Pepper goes undercover and works an airline stewardess.

5 Anatomy of Two Rapes 49 min | Oct 11, 1974

Pepper and the squad investigate a pair of alleged rapes. The first involves a wealthy woman who claims that she was attacked on the eve of her daughter's wedding. The second involves a the rape and murder of a married woman, who was known for being very wild. The squad then arrest a black man for the first rape, but serious questions arise about his guilt and whether a rape took place in the first place.

6 It's Only a Game 49 min | Oct 25, 1974

Pepper plays a dumb blonde to penetrate the inner circle of a drug ring. A rookie - the son of a retired detective is put with the team, but the intense pressure from his demanding father doesn't help anyone.

7 Fish 49 min | Nov 01, 1974

Pepper goes under cover as a new prison inmate in hopes of convincing a crime boss's girl to turn on him.

8 Flowers of Evil 48 min | Nov 08, 1974

Pepper goes undercover as a nurse-on-the-run to gain employment at an old folks' home where the female patients are being knocked off for their checks by a trio of homicidal lesbians. Eventually obtaining a confession from one of the culprits, Pepper confesses that her female college roommate had a crush on her, and, therefore, "I know what a love like yours can do to a person" - Pepper's relationship left intentionally ambiguous.

9 The Stalking of Joey Marr 50 min | Nov 22, 1974

Pepper escorts a syndicate member to testify, but they are followed by hit men.

10 Requiem for Bored Wives 50 min | Nov 29, 1974

A disk jockey's wife is found fatally shot with his gun, and the DJ himself is the prime suspect, since he knew of her affair with another man. The audience saw the dead woman and her lover wrestling over the gun and a shot being fired, but the film editor took a few extra frames off the film immediately after the shot being fired -- a crucial plot point later on when the cornered lover claims the bullet went wild and didn't hit anybody. So if the struggle didn't result in the wife's killing ... what did?

11 Smack 50 min | Dec 06, 1974

Pepper goes undercover at a local high school where heroin use is on the rise. When two students die of overdoses the officers increase the pressure with focus turning to rich kid Eric Miller whose father is influential.

12 The Cradle Robbers 50 min | Dec 13, 1974

Abe Faulkner asks his friend, Sergeant Bill Crowley, for help. Julie, his daughter-in-law, was deep into drugs and after leading her husband to downfall and death, she has just died herself. And now, her five-year-old little girl has disappeared. Bill decides that the best thing to do is to pass the buck to Sergeant Anderson. She soon discovers an adoption racket in which children are bought and sold.

13 Shoefly 50 min | Dec 20, 1974

A mob enforcer is caught red handed after shooting a crime boss but somehow the ballistics evidence in court proves him innocent. Pepper and the gang are given 72 hours to find the police officer that switched the gun barrel.

14 Target Black 50 min | Jan 03, 1975

Pepper is assigned to protect a prominent political activist who is being targeted.

15 Sidewinder 50 min | Jan 17, 1975

Four Korean War vets armed with M-16s and a bazooka prepare to pull off Operation: Sidewinder, a heist of an armored car carrying a multi-million dollar payload. One of the men's penchant for prostitutes puts Pepper in the action undercover.

16 Blast 50 min | Jan 25, 1975

When politician Edward Littel's car is found bombed and dumped in a lake, a single fingerprint on the dashboard proves he was accompanied by an exotic dancer named Paris Palmer when the explosion occurred. Pepper dons a thong and the unlikely moniker of "Flaxy Dupree" and hits the go-go joint where the dead girl worked. Charming the establishment's owner, Andrew Simms, with her aloof, hard-to-get charms and hip-grinding employment audition, Pepper initiates an immediate rapport with him. Crowley questions Littel's wife, Christina, and Littel's in-laws, the powerful Van Dyke dynasty of California, and eventually learns from the Special Prosecutor's Office that the Van Dykes despised the son-in-law for his political desires to clean up corruption. Suspicious that widow Christina's grief may be disingenuous at best, Crowley leaks that Pepper is an agent with the police department. Startled at this revelation, Littel's wife shoots Simms to keep him quiet, with Simms confessing to Pepper in his last breath that Christina, having learned of her husband's affair with the dancer, hired Simms to kill them both, using Simms' criminal record from Tennessee and the possibility of extradition as blackmail. Pepper makes a poetic (though looped) comment about the weather, and she and Crowley get a great freeze frame in the sunset as it filters through the sidewalk foliage.

17 No Place to Hide 50 min | Jan 31, 1975

A clue is found linking a series of seemingly random murders: Each victim had testified against the mob and was now enjoying a new life in the Witness Protection Program. Pepper goes undercover as a secretary to uncover the leaker.

18 Nothing Left to Lose 50 min | Feb 14, 1975

Pepper's informant is LaRue Collins, a mentally unstable masseuse whose work allows her to overhear mobsters plotting crimes. But now her cover is blown and she's running for her life. Can Pepper find her before the mobsters do?

19 The Company 50 min | Feb 21, 1975

Following the gangland killing of a mafia thug during which an imprisoned don's name is uttered, Pepper makes an undercover trip to a clandestine, high-class gambling casino and witnesses first-hand the game "taken" by the henchman from this new circle of crooks. After the man who ran the illegal casino is blown up in his car in front of Pepper and Crowley, the unit tries to flush out this gang once again by setting themselves up for "protectionism". Eventually, the kingpin falsely blamed for the series of takeovers sends his assistant out on the streets, learning that a local, corrupt mafia lawyer has brainstormed the scam, using the kingpin's name for purposes of leverage. Warned that the police were about to bust him, the lawyer moves to dispose of his incriminating records - but not before Crowley and Pepper can stop him. Tossing his box of important paperwork into the wind, the gusts from the nearby docks scatter the records in a thousand different directions, leaving Pepper and Bill to scramble to recover them.

20 Ice 50 min | Feb 28, 1975

Pepper and Crowley travel to Masiaca, Mexico posing as the Ordways, a married couple who operate as fences for stolen jewels. They plan to lure out of hiding another married couple who pulled a jewelery store heist in Los Angeles.

21 Bloody Nose 50 min | Mar 07, 1975

While working undercover as a waitress in a seedy roadside diner connected to a series of truckload heists, Pepper finds herself entangled in the ugly spousal abuse dispute between a young married couple in her apartment complex.

22 The Loner 50 min | Mar 14, 1975

Pepper and Crowley become reluctant partners with Turk Allison, a former cop from Texas whose cowboy demeanor and vigilante tactics promise to help them bust mobster Briscoe.

Cast View all

Angie Dickinson Sgt. Suzanne 'Pepper' Anderson
Charles Dierkop Royster
Earl Holliman Sgt. Bill Crowley
Ed Bernard Styles
Norman Stevans Bank Customer
John Crawford Chief Parks
Clark Ross Pedestrian
Bob Folkerson Bartender
Val Bisoglio Lt. Marsh
George Washburn Police Officer
Joe Pine Funeral Guest
Brent Dunsford Club Patron
Bob Harks Casino Patron
John Finnegan Sgt. Bingham
Victor Sen Yung Ah Choy
Walt Davis Polygraph Technician
Michelle Stacy Girl
Mwako Cumbuka Willy
Philip Michael Thomas Sonny
Pepper Martin Peltz
C. Lindsay Workman Hodgkins
Helene Winston Sylvia
Sheldon Allman Homicide Detective
Laraine Stephens Christina Littel
David Carlile Bartender

Edition details

Packaging Custom Case
Nr Discs 5
Distributor Sony Pictures
Layers Single side, Single layer
Regions Region 1

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Index 1294
Added Date Jul 03, 2018 04:01:29
Modified Date Jul 03, 2018 04:01:29