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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 119747" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p><strong>'Sweet Kathleen'</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>An ex con woman (Jacqueline Scott) happens to work as an executive secretary for the investment company of Mr. Saunders (Craig Stevens) and she one day calls Sergeant Crowley's unit and anonymously advises them that her office is about to be robbed. Despite being middle-aged and wee bit paunchy, Kathleen manages to seduce every man in sight -- even making a play for Crowley -- although he begins to figure out the she's somehow right in the middle of this baffling case. Meanwhile, Pepper is in and out of court and carrying around a homicidal candlestick Ed de Blasio is planning to use on Roger Grimes.</p><p></p><p>_____________</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>'Flip of a Coin'</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>When the department decides to cut one of the investigator positions from the Criminal Conspiracy Unit, Joe Styles ends up being transferred to another section where he is assigned night shift duty. But when wealthy Joslyn Westmore is being kidnapped and held for ransom, Pepper and Crowley discover her husband (Gary Collins), a board chairman of a large company, has a chauffeur who is a dead ringer for Styles. (Is that racism??) So Joe returns to the unit to pose as the rich man's driver in order to deliver the ransom and hopefully save the young woman. But the case is complicated for Joe when his wife, Harriet, learns she might have breast cancer, which gives the usually politically-incorrect Pepper the opportunity to recite one of those TV speeches so common from the '70s onward that a man <em>can't possibly</em> understand the fear and devastation that comes from a breast cancer diagnosis because it's the one cancer men aren't likely to get.</p><p></p><p>By episode's end, after a black officer snarks that you don't kill a black man by hitting him over the head (ahhh, back in the day when we thought we were post-racial and could make jokes like this) Pete Royster also makes a joke that Styles' beard makes him "look like Benji" and Pepper erupts in hysterical laughter and gets the freeze frame with Crowley.</p><p></p><p>Errrrmm...</p><p></p><p>______________</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>'Good Old Uncle Ben'</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>Investigating a murder connected to stolen beef and cattle rustling, Pepper enlists the expertise of her beloved uncle (Keenan Wynn, who got an Emmy nomination for this episode) now an elderly cattle rancher who faces mounting financial hardship due to the dialysis treatments his wife (Bettye Ackerman) desperately needs. Unbeknownst to Sergeant Anderson, Ben is already part of the criminal enterprise, but once he's forced to gun down a low-level assistant rustler who's begun robbing the robbers and intent on going into business on his own, Pepper's uncle, in self-disgust, calls Crowley and helps set up a sting operation to bring down his homicidal partners.</p><p></p><p>Flawed but not a bad episode on which to close the entire four season POLICE WOMAN series, the producers still can't miss one final opportunity to de-ovary the slinky title character when a shoot-out at a steak house restaurant in which three people fire five shots at one another nevertheless at no point results in Pepper, her weapon drawn, pulling the trigger of her .38 police special at all.</p><p></p><p>At least Uncle Ben's death scene is minimalistically well-played by Angie, Keenan and Earl, set to a plaintive Jerrold Immel musical cue from the stock drawer (although Morty Stevens gets the screen credit).</p><p></p><p>And the show ends, the shadow cast by its first season over the three subsequent years and their largely, if-not-entirely, wasted potential dark and deep. The series was a huge hit initially, became the first <em>successful</em> American drama series to feature a woman in the title role, ushered in the sexy TV crimefighter genre of the late-'70s and, more importantly, influenced a generation of women to join their local police departments. But the feminists disliked the program -- sometimes rightly and sometimes wrongly -- and the dwindling viewers were left frustrated by an ambivalent taste the show left in their mouths regarding the near-constant constraints placed on the star -- at least after Season 1.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/earl-holliman-and-angie-dickinson-during-jim-baileys-benefit-gay-picture-id105902611?s=2048x2048" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://theredlist.com/media/database/muses/icon/cinematic_women/1960/angie_dickinson/46-angie-dickinson.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 119747, member: 57984"] [B]'Sweet Kathleen' [/B] An ex con woman (Jacqueline Scott) happens to work as an executive secretary for the investment company of Mr. Saunders (Craig Stevens) and she one day calls Sergeant Crowley's unit and anonymously advises them that her office is about to be robbed. Despite being middle-aged and wee bit paunchy, Kathleen manages to seduce every man in sight -- even making a play for Crowley -- although he begins to figure out the she's somehow right in the middle of this baffling case. Meanwhile, Pepper is in and out of court and carrying around a homicidal candlestick Ed de Blasio is planning to use on Roger Grimes. _____________ [B]'Flip of a Coin' [/B] When the department decides to cut one of the investigator positions from the Criminal Conspiracy Unit, Joe Styles ends up being transferred to another section where he is assigned night shift duty. But when wealthy Joslyn Westmore is being kidnapped and held for ransom, Pepper and Crowley discover her husband (Gary Collins), a board chairman of a large company, has a chauffeur who is a dead ringer for Styles. (Is that racism??) So Joe returns to the unit to pose as the rich man's driver in order to deliver the ransom and hopefully save the young woman. But the case is complicated for Joe when his wife, Harriet, learns she might have breast cancer, which gives the usually politically-incorrect Pepper the opportunity to recite one of those TV speeches so common from the '70s onward that a man [I]can't possibly[/I] understand the fear and devastation that comes from a breast cancer diagnosis because it's the one cancer men aren't likely to get. By episode's end, after a black officer snarks that you don't kill a black man by hitting him over the head (ahhh, back in the day when we thought we were post-racial and could make jokes like this) Pete Royster also makes a joke that Styles' beard makes him "look like Benji" and Pepper erupts in hysterical laughter and gets the freeze frame with Crowley. Errrrmm... ______________ [B]'Good Old Uncle Ben' [/B] Investigating a murder connected to stolen beef and cattle rustling, Pepper enlists the expertise of her beloved uncle (Keenan Wynn, who got an Emmy nomination for this episode) now an elderly cattle rancher who faces mounting financial hardship due to the dialysis treatments his wife (Bettye Ackerman) desperately needs. Unbeknownst to Sergeant Anderson, Ben is already part of the criminal enterprise, but once he's forced to gun down a low-level assistant rustler who's begun robbing the robbers and intent on going into business on his own, Pepper's uncle, in self-disgust, calls Crowley and helps set up a sting operation to bring down his homicidal partners. Flawed but not a bad episode on which to close the entire four season POLICE WOMAN series, the producers still can't miss one final opportunity to de-ovary the slinky title character when a shoot-out at a steak house restaurant in which three people fire five shots at one another nevertheless at no point results in Pepper, her weapon drawn, pulling the trigger of her .38 police special at all. At least Uncle Ben's death scene is minimalistically well-played by Angie, Keenan and Earl, set to a plaintive Jerrold Immel musical cue from the stock drawer (although Morty Stevens gets the screen credit). And the show ends, the shadow cast by its first season over the three subsequent years and their largely, if-not-entirely, wasted potential dark and deep. The series was a huge hit initially, became the first [I]successful[/I] American drama series to feature a woman in the title role, ushered in the sexy TV crimefighter genre of the late-'70s and, more importantly, influenced a generation of women to join their local police departments. But the feminists disliked the program -- sometimes rightly and sometimes wrongly -- and the dwindling viewers were left frustrated by an ambivalent taste the show left in their mouths regarding the near-constant constraints placed on the star -- at least after Season 1. [IMG]https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/earl-holliman-and-angie-dickinson-during-jim-baileys-benefit-gay-picture-id105902611?s=2048x2048[/IMG] [IMG]https://theredlist.com/media/database/muses/icon/cinematic_women/1960/angie_dickinson/46-angie-dickinson.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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