LEGENDARY DAME!: CELEBRATING 70 YEARS! : POLICE WOMAN .. COLUMBIA PICTURES TELEVISION .. USA 1976 ..

Sunday, May 30, 2021

CELEBRATING 70 YEARS! : POLICE WOMAN .. COLUMBIA PICTURES TELEVISION .. USA 1976 ..

COLUMBIA PICTURES TELEVISION

Presents

POLICE WOMAN

Starring

ANGIE DICKINSON as Sgt Suzanne PEPPER Anderson

EARL HOLLIMAN as Lt Bill Crowley
ED BERNARD as Det Joe Styles
CHARLES DIERKOP as Det Pete Royster
VAL BISOGLIO as Lt Paul Marsh

'' THE PAWN SHOP ''

( Season 2 - Episode 17 )

Guest Stars..

JOAN COLLINS as Prudence Clark

DIANE BAKER as Cynthia Lambert

HAL ENGLAND as Ellis
ALEX COLON as Rafe Pecora
CHRIS HUBBELL as Bobby Erdman
TOMMY CASTRONOVA as Tommy Court

PHILIP PINE as George Crossland

JOHN DENNIS JOHNSTON as Bishof

FRANK BONNER as Donny's Father

Directed by Richard Benedict

Joan with Diane Baker

With sixteen burglaries in Lambert Hills in one year, it's time to call on the services of Pepper and Bill, causing Pepper to postpone her much looked forwarded to trip to South America! A professional gang of thieves, infiltrating rich houses by offering their services as caterers, are ripping off the houses and passing on the stolen items through various pawnshops... The department decides to set up their own shop and install closed circuit TV, so that they can watch for the gang if they try to pass on any of the
hot goods! Prudence Clark (Joan) an over the hill actress is the latest victim, who just happens to be at home when the burglars call, ends up with a black eye.. But she takes a shine to Bill Crowley and offers to help trap the gang led by hard nosed Cynthia Lambert (Diane).. So if you fancy a spot of fencing, make sure you don't visit this Pawnshop!!

Joan with Earl Holliman

In "The Pawn Shop", Joan plays a glamorous actress, who has reached the stage where the phone has stopped ringing, but she tries to keep up the appearance that she still is in the game! Joan is in sparkling form in this episode and is good fun, with the always reliable Diane Baker as a bitch of the head of a burglary ring.. Another excellent episode of a an always watchable series...

'' THE TRICK BOOK ''

( Season 3 - Episode 1 )

Guest Stars

JOAN COLLINS as Lorelei Frank

DOROTHY MALONE as Madame Hilary La Salle
JERRY DOUGLAS as Leo Patri
BROOKE BUNDY as Renee Andrews
JACK GILFORD as Michael English
MAIDIE NORMAN as Celia Jackson
CAROLE WELLES as Danni Summers

NED WILSON as Channing Andrews

DAVID WHITE as Brinker

HAYDEN RORKE as Cromwell

IAN WOLFE as Mr Meservey

MICHAEL SWAN as Chaucer

Directed by Barry Shear

Joan is disctacted by Dorothy Malone

An influential banker informs the police that he is being blackmailed by a high class Madame, who has been keeping a book of all her clients...The Trick Book... But when Hilary is found murdered in her bath and the book goes missing, there are many hands who want to find the book and will resort to even more murder! Never slip between the covers with The Trick Book!

This was Joan's second episode of the series and she plays Lorelei Frank, a cold hearted, alcoholic hooker with a penchant for s&m! Joan has some great scenes with Angie near the end of the story, when Pepper calls Lorelei a "lush hooker", while Lorelei annoys her by pulling on the zipper of her jumpsuit..they both end up in a struggle and end up flying through a glass door! Joan is excellent as Lorelei and ends the episode by been carted off screaming for booze!

The legendary Angie Dickinson stars in this classic 70's groundbreaking series as the glamorous but tough Suzanne Anderson, or Pepper as she is known to her friends and associates! Not only was Angie the first actress to play a starring role in a cop show , her character was also a Sargent, usually a men only role.. Sgt Anderson worked as an undercover agent for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the LAPD.. Her sidekick and boss was the handsome and charismatic Lt Bill Crowley (Holliman).. The series began as a spin-off from the popular "Police Story" series of gritty tv-movies..it quickly became a ratings hit and ran for four seasons from 1974 to 1978.. Joan appeared in two episodes, although her second episode was a two parter.. Both were screened the same year.. "The Pawn Shop" shown in January 1976 as part of the second season, while "The Trick Book" was shown in September 76 as the third season opener. Although it was a two part episode, Joan was not in many scenes, probably the equivalent of a single episode.