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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 83946" data-attributes="member: 57984">"Ice" is a tongue-in-cheek entry which opens on the robbery of an L.A. jewelry store run by an older couple (Ned Glass, Florence Halop) which leads Pepper and Crowley to Mexico to sniff out a pair of thieves (James Keach, Jane Elliot) and then back to California where our heroes are held captive in an airport warehouse by thugs in security guard uniforms (William Campbell, and Angie's beloved Michael Parks) in search of the baubles they believe the cops brought back from south of the border. The elderly couple who were originally robbed show up, confess they were behind their own theft for the insurance Pepper assures the goons will never be coming, invite the creeps to kill these two officers, and Crowley wrestles with Parks when the latter demands Sergeant Anderson disrobe to reveal the diamonds not hidden in her brassiere.<img src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/MsTexas73/Pepper%20Pics/PWICEDoMe3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 783px" />Fun stuff, and Angie shows she can still do comedy when she doesn't forget to actually act it.<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWICETango2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 776px" /><img src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYjkzMGI1ZmUtYTI3Mi00YjRjLWE5YzgtY2Q4ZTdkMjliMThkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTQwNTU3NTk0._V1_.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 778px" />---------"Bloody Nose" begins with Pepper in the shower breathily warbling her husband's songs, when the landlady comes banging at the door because a couple in an upstairs unit are having a knock-down-drag-out verbal fight the manager is afraid will get physical. Reluctantly, Pepper wanders out in her robe and asks the screaming couple to cool it.Repeated incidents like that cause the artist husband (David Birney) to become increasingly paranoid about the "feminine solidarity" going on between Pepper and his frazzled wife (Joan Goodfellow) who eventually files a police report, assuring Sergeants Anderson and Crowley that her husband, jealous that she's having affairs she denies, is quite dangerous and has already struck her.The husband finally packs up and moves out, most of his art work mysteriously missing or destroyed (which the wife blames on one of his tantrums), but he eventually turns up at a greasy truck stop where Pepper is undercover in an effort to smoke out a band of truck heisters. He maliciously blows Peppers cover, reveals she's a cop, and she barely escapes when a shoot-out ensues.<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWbloodynose2_zpsjuhkjf4l.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 776px" />The only problem with how this happened is that Pepper only gave the wife her location and phone number at the truck stop in case of an emergency.  Pepper figures out that the wife, who is indeed an unfaithful spouse, gave the number to her reactive husband knowing he'd likely get himself killed by the police -- which indeed almost happens at his ping pong parlor hang-out (where he'd illegally purchased a gun) when Pepper and Crowley go there to arrest him.A rather brave episode (which could never have been done in the more politically-correct '80s and '90s) because it reveals the baiting wife to be as bad or worse as the screwed up husband -- a message which might work a little better if the writer hadn't contrived to make her "a psychology expert" and if she was played by a better actress, and if more recent revelations about David Birney's personal life weren't so unattractive.Pepper tells hubby (who has a pistol stuck in her face) what's really been going on and to not to give his wife the satisfaction of getting himself shot to death. And then Crowley chivalrously tells the wife to go to hell on the sidewalk.<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWBloody3-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 775px" />---------"The Loner"  is a private eye (played by football icon Don Meredith) who meet Pepper & Crowley during an airport shoot-out. Meredith is trying to keep his client (Pat Harrington) from being dusted, somewhat unsuccessfully, by a goon boss (Neville Brand) -- and then goes gunning for the goon boss as the goon boss goes gunning for him.<img src="http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m127/tubesteak69/PWLoner4.jpg~original" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 780px" />Pepper is charmed and intrigued by the private dick she's assigned to cover, Crowley gets a little jealous, and the show begins its annual tradition of ending each season with her at the hospital bedside of her latest wounded dude pal.<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWloner_zpsgrfgppdl.jpg~original" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 787px" />Thus concludes easily the first and best (and most consistent) and highest rated season of POLICE WOMAN, when they still allowed Angie to be Angie and when everything still worked.<img src="https://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/0043396135147_p0_v2_s550x406.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 508px" />A pretty decent S1 review from Schlockmania:<a href="http://schlockmania.com/police-woman-season-one/" target="_blank">http://schlockmania.com/police-woman-season-one/</a>POLICE WOMAN – SEASON ONE: Beauty And The BadgeThe 1970’s was an important time for cop shows.  As television pushed towards greater freedom in its portrayal of adult content, the police drama achieved greater latitude in how it portrayed the extremes of the law enforcement profession.  Police Woman was a noteworthy landmark in this area: though some might dismiss it as a t.v.-friendly version of the cops-and-robbers movies that were so popular during this area, it’s important to remember that this was the first successful prime-time drama to have a woman in its central role – and thus paved the way for femme-centric adventure shows like Wonder Woman, Charlie’s Angels, etc.Police Woman had its roots in “The Gamble,” an episode from the first season of the popular anthology drama Police Story.  It starred Angie Dickinson as a cop who goes undercover to infiltrate a gambling operation and was popular enough that the producers quickly considered doing a regular cop series built around Dickinson.The next season, Police Woman premiered on the prime-time scene: Dickinson stars as Suzanne “Pepper” Anderson, a police sergeant who works as part of an investigation squad led up by Lieutenant Bill Crowley (Earl Holliman).  Each episode presents Pepper working with Crowley and Detectives Royster (Charles Dierkop) and Styles (Ed Bernard) on a different investigations that require her to go undercover to gather information.  Along the way, she copes with the life-threatening elements of the job as well as the more personal ones, like getting personally involved with victims and, occasionally, the suspects.Episodes of Police Woman break down into a couple of types.  The first are what you might call “Pepper on a mission” stories.  These focus on the mechanics of the undercover operation, with Pepper front and center.  These are not as serious as the show’s Police Story roots and often have a b-movie flavor to them that enhances the entertainment value: a great example is “Smack,” an episode with Pepper going undercover at a high school to find pushers.  It plays kind of like High School Confidential updated for the mid-1970’s.The other type of episode is “social commentary” style that mixes the expected investigation but allows an important social issue of the day to take center stage.  A good example of this style is “Bloody Nose,” a memorable episode that finds Pepper getting involved in the troubles of a bickering couple only to find out things aren’t entirely what they seem to be.<img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.schlockmania.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/PWS1-02.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Police Woman was an instant success during its first season.  Its critics often dismissed it as the beginning of the “jiggle” show trend.  That’s not a fair criticism but there is an element of truth buried in it because the show isn’t shy about capitalizing on Dickinson’s camera-friendly charms: different undercover operations have her playing a prostitute, an exotic dancer, a prison inmate and any number of morally ambiguous female types that linger on the edges of the crime world.  That said, season one does this with a knowing sense of humor: for example, “Smack” has Pepper posing as a high-school coach and her introductory scene has her leading a group of young coeds through smirk-inducingly eroticized stretching exercises.It’s also worth noting that the first season episodes never use the sexy-female-cop angle of the show to make a joke out of Dickinson.  Indeed, she manages to radiate strength in these situations because she is an independent and self-possessed person.  She’s always portrayed as being smart, resourceful, brave and an equal partner to her fellow officers in the investigation team.  This blend of attributes works because of the show’s star.  Dickinson is a stunner and can easily pull off being sexy without effort but it’s her acting skills that really sell the role of Pepper Anderson.  She has a natural ability to stay cool under pressure but is able to balance that with a warmth that gives the character humanity.<img src="https://i0.wp.com/www.schlockmania.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/PWS1-04.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The show also gives her a strong backup cast to work with: veteran t.v. actor Holliman is a lot of fun as the cheap but charming Crowley, who is as much friend as colleague (the show teases the audience with – but never clarifies – the issue of whether Pepper and Crowley are more than friends).  Dierkop and Bernard – who both costarred with Dickinson in “The Gamble” – offer consistently professional backup, adding a sly sense of humor without lapsing into the kind of burlesque inherent in portraying vice cops.The final part of the appeal of Police Woman: Season One is the guest stars.  To the b-list stars who made the guest star circuit on prime time t.v., a show like was a good “get” because it would allow for a nice showy role.  For example, William Shatner turns up in “Smack” with a memorable hambone-Shatner turn as a troubled chemistry teacher while “Blast” gives Robert Vaughn a swell role as a strip-bar owner with dreams of legit-society success and a tragic past.These shows also allowed said b-listers a welcome opportunity to play against type: highlights in this vein include Bob Crane playing a smarmy talk-show host with a cheating wife in “Requiem For Bored Wives” and Patty Duke as a hustler who’s itching to get out of town in “Nothing Left To Lose.”  The latter episode even allows her to have a scene with then-husband John Astin as an ex-boyfriend/crippled former drug pusher!In short, Police Woman: Season One is classic 1970’s t.v. fun that will have a special appeal to fans of exploitation movies from this era.  It’s like a gritty little crime flick each week, complete with all the fly fashion, funky music and a stunner of a star to hold it all together.</blockquote>

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