The BEST episodes of Police Woman season 1
Every episode of Police Woman season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Police Woman season 1!
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.
#1 - Bloody Nose
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/7/1975
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.
#2 - The Company
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/21/1975
Three gangland killings signal that someone is taking over established vice activities. A gambling operator is feeling the heat, and Pepper is there to help.
#3 - Smack
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1974
Pepper goes undercover as a high school teacher to hunt down a group of drug pushers.
#4 - Nothing Left to Lose
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/14/1975
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 is running for her life. Can Pepper find her before the mobsters do?
#5 - The Loner
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/14/1975
Pepper is strangely fascinated by a ruggedly individualistic ex-cop who works as a bodyguard and is antagonizing both the police and the gangster who is after his client.
#6 - Seven Eleven
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1974
Pepper goes undercover and impersonates an airline stewardess who is a link in a complex heroin smuggling chain.
#7 - The End Game
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1974
Pepper (Angie Dickinson) and Crowley (Earl Holliman) pose as bank employees to nail a particularly vicious gang of bank robbers.
#8 - Blast
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/24/1975
The deaths of a prominent politician and a nightclub dancer in a car explosion send Pepper to work as a go-go dancer for the club's owner, a one-time poor boy with a powerful yen for the finer things in life.
#9 - Flowers of Evil
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1974
Pepper goes undercover as a nurse-on-the-run to gain employment at an old folks' home where the female patients are being murdered for their checks by a trio of homicidal lesbians.
#10 - The Stalking of Joey Marr
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1974
Pepper must transfer the son of a murdered gang chief from Mexico to testify against a killer.
#11 - Ice
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/28/1975
Posing as a couple of jewel fences, Pepper and Crowley travel to Masiaca, Mexico as part of a complex plan to nab a gang of diamond thieves.
#12 - Sidewinder
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/17/1975
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.
#13 - Requiem for Bored Wives
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1974
A freewheeling disc jockey finds his wife murdered in her bed.
#14 - The Cradle Robbers
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1974
A search for a missing granddaughter of Sergeant Crowley's old friend leads Pepper to an adoption racket in which children are bought and sold.
#15 - Shoefly
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/20/1974
Internal Affairs gives Pepper and Crowley 72 hours to find the cop who switched barrels on a murder weapon before the accused killer got to court.
#16 - It's Only a Game
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1974
Squad veterans question whether their newest member really wants the job or is being pushed into it by his father, a retired detective.
#17 - Anatomy of Two Rapes
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1974
Pepper and the squad investigate a pair of alleged rapes. The first involves a wealthy woman who claims that she was attacked a week before her daughter's wedding. The second involves the rape and murder of a married woman, who was known for being very promiscuous.
#18 - Fish
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1974
Pepper goes undercover in a woman's prison to gain the confidence of a fellow prisoner who has information that could put away a mobster.
#19 - No Place to Hide
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1975
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.
#20 - The Beautiful Die Young
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1974
Pepper investigates a modeling school which is actually a front for supplying young girls to the porn business and overseas white slavery trade.
#21 - Warning: All Wives
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1974
Pepper and Bill go undercover to catch a rapist/killer who is targeting the wives of patients at a hospital.
#22 - Target Black
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1975
Pepper serves as bodyguard for a visiting campus speaker who, being black and Marxist, is a magnet for threats from hate groups.