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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 83700" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p><strong>'Target Black' </strong>opens at the station where Crowley has corralled several black activists out of concern that they might disrupt the campus visit of speaker Cora Sanders (Ruby Dee) an Angela Davis-style Communist Marxist. Meeting her at the airport, Pepper and the unit ask Cora, for purposes of security, not to reveal the location of her lodgings, but Cora immediately tells the press on the sidewalk which hotel she's staying in.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWtarget1_zpsiynhxxzr.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 776px" /></p><p></p><p>Suspicious of the police and already establishing bad blood with Sergeant Anderson, Cora is resistant to Pepper acting as her bodyguard, but after Cora slips away to meet an old lover, doomingly nicknamed "Boomer" (Pervis Atkins), on the roof of the hotel and he's shot from another building by a gunman in a ski mask, she reluctantly agrees to stay at Pepper's condo but still refuses to call off her speech at the university despite a wave of threats which are turning violent.</p><p></p><p>Miss Sanders attends her lover's wake, but his angry wife (Mary Alice) sasses her big time and throws her out of the dour festivities, but not before Pepper defends Cora. It's all so very '70s.</p><p></p><p>At one point, the psycho sniper out to nail the activist can be seen preparing himself for battle around his apartment, and when the episode first aired, he has a huge JFK poster on his door. Angie Dickinson must have had a duck fit when she saw that, because the shot was soon removed from the episode and is nowhere to be found in reruns nor on the DVD.</p><p></p><p>The animosity between the two women cools, and by the morning of Cora's speech, they're almost friendly. Just in time for Pepper to get shot while she crosses the stage as gunfire rings out -- the killer is an apolitical nut job in a security officer's uniform who's simply looking for fame by knocking off a controversial figure in the news.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWtarget2_zps3ulrx1yg.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 776px" /></p><p></p><p>Real life feminists' complaints were so weird, they demanded that Pepper never again get shot on the show unless it was by a female assailant.</p><p></p><p>The elegiacal original musical score was by Richard Shores and was heavily tracked thru the remainder of Season One.</p><p></p><p>This episode of POLICE WOMAN hit <strong>#2 </strong>in the Nielsen ratings that week, behind only the Orange Bowl (an annual sports event). Angie's being on the cover of the TV Guide probably didn't hurt.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/3d/4f/ee/3d4fee9ca156de3515d93dae35081b9f--angie-dickinson-tv-guide.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 83700, member: 57984"] [B]'Target Black' [/B]opens at the station where Crowley has corralled several black activists out of concern that they might disrupt the campus visit of speaker Cora Sanders (Ruby Dee) an Angela Davis-style Communist Marxist. Meeting her at the airport, Pepper and the unit ask Cora, for purposes of security, not to reveal the location of her lodgings, but Cora immediately tells the press on the sidewalk which hotel she's staying in. [IMG width="776px"]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWtarget1_zpsiynhxxzr.jpg[/IMG] Suspicious of the police and already establishing bad blood with Sergeant Anderson, Cora is resistant to Pepper acting as her bodyguard, but after Cora slips away to meet an old lover, doomingly nicknamed "Boomer" (Pervis Atkins), on the roof of the hotel and he's shot from another building by a gunman in a ski mask, she reluctantly agrees to stay at Pepper's condo but still refuses to call off her speech at the university despite a wave of threats which are turning violent. Miss Sanders attends her lover's wake, but his angry wife (Mary Alice) sasses her big time and throws her out of the dour festivities, but not before Pepper defends Cora. It's all so very '70s. At one point, the psycho sniper out to nail the activist can be seen preparing himself for battle around his apartment, and when the episode first aired, he has a huge JFK poster on his door. Angie Dickinson must have had a duck fit when she saw that, because the shot was soon removed from the episode and is nowhere to be found in reruns nor on the DVD. The animosity between the two women cools, and by the morning of Cora's speech, they're almost friendly. Just in time for Pepper to get shot while she crosses the stage as gunfire rings out -- the killer is an apolitical nut job in a security officer's uniform who's simply looking for fame by knocking off a controversial figure in the news. [IMG width="776px"]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWtarget2_zps3ulrx1yg.jpg[/IMG] Real life feminists' complaints were so weird, they demanded that Pepper never again get shot on the show unless it was by a female assailant. The elegiacal original musical score was by Richard Shores and was heavily tracked thru the remainder of Season One. This episode of POLICE WOMAN hit [B]#2 [/B]in the Nielsen ratings that week, behind only the Orange Bowl (an annual sports event). Angie's being on the cover of the TV Guide probably didn't hurt. [IMG]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/3d/4f/ee/3d4fee9ca156de3515d93dae35081b9f--angie-dickinson-tv-guide.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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