Police Woman

Follows Sergeant "Pepper" Anderson, LAPD's top undercover cop. A member of the Criminal Conspiracy Unit, Pepper works the wild side of the street, where she poses as everything from a gangster's moll to a streetwalker to a prison inmate.

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Cast:Angie Dickinson , Earl Holliman , Charles Dierkop , Ed Bernard , John Crawford , Don 'Red' Barry , C. Lindsay Workman , Pepper Martin , Billy Jackson , Walt Davis , Dane Clark , Frank Arno , Laraine Stephens , Ned Romero , Daniel Benton , Don Stroud , Bill Williams , Deirdre Lenihan

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ The End Game

Fri, Sep 13, 1974

The police are after a gang of bank robbers made up of 3 men and 2 women. The gang has been very successful and done very little to identify themselves. They have very few leads until Pepper uncovers a clue which leads them to Las Vegas where they believe the gang is from. Soon Pepper, Crowley and other officers are undercover staking out various banks in the hopes of being inside when they strike next.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ The Beautiful Die Young

Fri, Sep 20, 1974

A complaint from a distressed mother leads the police to investigate the Classic Modeling Agency. It's run by Ted Adrian and is actually a front for his business of supplying young girls to the porn business and overseas white slave trade. Pepper and Crowley use a young trainee to go undercover and pose as a young model to get close to Adrian's business.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Warning: All Wives

Fri, Sep 27, 1974

A rapist/killer terrorizes a hospital. His targets are the wives of patients staying at the hospital. Pepper and Bill go undercover to try to flush him out and immediately they think that a very amorous parking attendant is the prime suspect. However, they soon find out that it is someone who is the least likely to commit the crimes.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Seven Eleven

Fri, Oct 4, 1974

Pepper goes undercover and impersonates an airline stewardess who is a link in a complex heroin smuggling chain.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Anatomy of Two Rapes

Fri, Oct 11, 1974

Pepper and the squad investigate a pair of alleged rapes. The first involves a wealthy woman who claims that she was attacked on the eve of her daughter's wedding. The second involves a the rape and murder of a married woman, who was known for being very wild. The squad then arrest a black man for the first rape, but serious questions arise about his guilt and whether a rape took place in the first place.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ It's Only a Game

Fri, Oct 25, 1974

Pepper plays a dumb blonde in order to penetrate the inner circle of a major drug ring. Joining Crowley's team is a rookie detective, son of a retired department veteran, who must endure intense pressure to excel from his demanding father.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Fish

Fri, Nov 1, 1974

Pepper goes under cover as a new prison inmate in hopes of convincing a crime boss's girl to turn on him.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Flowers of Evil

Fri, Nov 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 knocked off for their checks by a trio of homicidal lesbians. Eventually obtaining a confession from one of the culprits, Pepper confesses that her female college roommate had a crush on her, and, therefore, "I know what a love like yours can do to a person" - Pepper's relationship left intentionally ambiguous.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ The Stalking of Joey Marr

Fri, Nov 22, 1974

Pepper escorts syndicate member Joey Marr to testify against his peers, but the two are tailed by hit men intent on killing Marr. Pepper and Crowley are angry to learn that the assignment is not what it appears to be.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Requiem for Bored Wives

Fri, Nov 29, 1974

Bob Crane plays a freewheeling disk jockey with a chat-show atmosphere in his studio (which he had in real life). The disk jockey's wife is found fatally shot with his gun, and the DJ himself is the prime suspect, since he knew of her affair with another man. The audience saw the dead woman and her lover wrestling over the gun and a shot being fired, but the film editor took a few extra frames off the film immediately after the shot being fired -- a crucial plot point later on when the cornered lover claims the bullet went wild and didn't hit anybody. So if the struggle didn't result in the wife's killing ... what did? An eerie precursor to the scandal that arose over Bob Crane's sex-crazed life which most people believe led to his murder (depicted in the movie "Auto Focus," with Greg Kinnear as Crane). Features a high-octane powerboat chase in Los Angeles Harbor ending in a spectacular crash.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Smack

Fri, Dec 6, 1974

Pepper goes undercover at a local high school where heroin use is on the rise. When two students die of overdoses the officers increase the pressure with focus turning to rich kid Eric Miller whose father is influential.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ The Cradle Robbers

Fri, Dec 13, 1974

Abe Faulkner asks his friend, Sergeant Bill Crowley, for help. Julie, his daughter-in-law, was deep into drugs and after leading her husband to downfall and death, she has just died herself. And now, her five-year-old little girl has disappeared. Bill decides that the best thing to do is to pass the buck to Sergeant Anderson. She soon discovers an adoption racket in which children are bought and sold.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Shoefly

Fri, Dec 20, 1974

A mob enforcer is caught red handed after shooting a crime boss but somehow the ballistics evidence in court proves him innocent. Pepper and the gang are given 72 hours to find the police officer that switched the gun barrel.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Target Black

Fri, Jan 3, 1975

Pepper is assigned to protect a prominent political activist who is being targeted.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ Sidewinder

Fri, Jan 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.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ Blast

Sat, Jan 25, 1975

When politician Edward Littel's car is found bombed and dumped in a lake, a single fingerprint on the dashboard proves he was accompanied by an exotic dancer named Paris Palmer when the explosion occurred. Pepper dons a thong and the unlikely moniker of "Flaxy Dupree" and hits the go-go joint where the dead girl worked. Charming the establishment's owner, Andrew Simms, with her aloof, hard-to-get charms and hip-grinding employment audition, Pepper initiates an immediate rapport with him. Crowley questions Littel's wife, Christina, and Littel's in-laws, the powerful Van Dyke dynasty of California, and eventually learns from the Special Prosecutor's Office that the Van Dykes despised the son-in-law for his political desires to clean up corruption. Suspicious that widow Christina's grief may be disingenuous at best, Crowley leaks that Pepper is an agent with the police department. Startled at this revelation, Littel's wife shoots Simms to keep him quiet, with Simms confessing to Pepper in his last breath that Christina, having learned of her husband's affair with the dancer, hired Simms to kill them both, using Simms' criminal record from Tennessee and the possibility of extradition as blackmail. Pepper makes a poetic (though looped) comment about the weather, and she and Crowley get a great freeze frame in the sunset as it filters through the sidewalk foliage.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ No Place to Hide

Fri, Jan 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.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ Nothing Left to Lose

Fri, Feb 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's running for her life. Can Pepper find her before the mobsters do?

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ The Company

Fri, Feb 21, 1975

Following the gangland killing of a mafia thug during which an imprisoned don's name is uttered, Pepper makes an undercover trip to a clandestine, high-class gambling casino and witnesses first-hand the game "taken" by the henchman from this new circle of crooks. After the man who ran the illegal casino is blown up in his car in front of Pepper and Crowley, the unit tries to flush out this gang once again by setting themselves up for "protectionism". Eventually, the kingpin falsely blamed for the series of takeovers sends his assistant out on the streets, learning that a local, corrupt mafia lawyer has brainstormed the scam, using the kingpin's name for purposes of leverage. Warned that the police were about to bust him, the lawyer moves to dispose of his incriminating records - but not before Crowley and Pepper can stop him. Tossing his box of important paperwork into the wind, the gusts from the nearby docks scatter the records in a thousand different directions, leaving Pepper and Bill to scramble to recover them.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ Ice

Fri, Feb 28, 1975

Pepper and Crowley travel to Masiaca, Mexico posing as the Ordways, a married couple who operate as fences for stolen jewels. They plan to lure out of hiding another married couple who pulled a jewelery store heist in Los Angeles.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ Bloody Nose

Fri, Mar 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.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ The Loner

Fri, Mar 14, 1975

Pepper and Crowley become reluctant partners with Turk Allison, a former cop from Texas whose cowboy demeanor and vigilante tactics promise to help them bust mobster Briscoe.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Pawns of Power

Fri, Sep 12, 1975

Pepper goes undercover to expose a club that is operating as an illegal gambling operation. Lives are put at risk by an interfering and overzealous Police Chief, played by Roddy McDowall

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ The Score

Fri, Sep 19, 1975

A small time druggie commits suicide and Pepper poses as her sister to nab the dealers, until it turns out they've seen her photo - and they've realized it isn't Angie. So the squad moves in on the bad guys who have Pepper in the meth-shack, and she jumps through a glass window before a shell hits the building and the whole place blows up.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Paradise Mall

Fri, Sep 26, 1975

A serial murderer is killing young blonde women and leaving each of his victims clad in a bridal veil. Pepper teams up with former partner , Detective Tom Foley, to try and catch the killer.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Pattern for Evil

Fri, Oct 3, 1975

A fashion designer's business is being threatened by the Mob wanting a piece of the industry. Pepper goes undercover as a fashion consultant to investigate and expose the criminals.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ The Chasers

Fri, Oct 10, 1975

Ian McShane plays an insurance scammer and Ida Lupino is his partner. They fake and contrive accidents to collect the dough. Pepper "foils" a purse-snatching by getting knocked-down in a parking lot, falling in a pool and getting hit by a truck within a matter of a few seconds. In the hospital with a rag on her head, Pepper overhears the ambulance chasers pressuring the other patients on the ward. Pepper intuits a plot and once Bill finds her, they scheme to scam the scammers. Pepper charms McShane instantly into telling her all their secrets and, just as fast, a security guard quite unconvincingly blows her cover by insisting he hadn't seen her since he retired from the police force - all within earshot of Lupino. Exposed but unawares, Pepper still thinks she's undercover despite being told by an aging and suicidal lawyer in this "firm" that they're onto her. And, the revelation that she's got a badge doesn't guide them to get out of town but instead to kill her with a vat of gasoline in the trunk of a car. So when she tells the driver they're being set up for death, he just pushes her out the door onto the street and then angrily drives into oblivion. Conflagrations ensue on the highway. Pepper then goes to the apartment of the wife of the now-dead driver (one of the firm's partner/victims) and promptly gets shoved in a closet and the room is set on fire. Crowley arrives just in time, shooting the arsonist, and breaking Pepper out of the closet in the back of the smoke filled room. They meet Lupino in a darkened mall who starts shooting at them. Pepper being Pepper, she has no gun. An unconscious person on the floor literally trips Lupino and she falls, and is promptly arrested - By Crowley. Pepper and Crowley show up at a "fancy" restaurant and arrest McShane.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Cold Wind

Fri, Oct 17, 1975

Pepper & Crowley get involved after two men are shot dead outside the factory they worked at. A number of suspects are identified and the final solution creates a devastating emotional moment that makes both officers question their careers.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Above and Beyond

Fri, Oct 31, 1975

Pepper needs to go undercover when she and Crowley get brought into a case that has seen a parole officer gunned down in cold blood. Suspicion falls on the officer's case load. While investigating the murder things take a strange and all the threads converge in a surprising climax

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Farewell, Mary Jane

Tue, Nov 4, 1975

Pilot Bill Klein is working as a police informant, but Sergeant Larry Byron has discovered that Klein is in fact smuggling drugs in with his plane. Pepper and her colleagues try to bust him.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Blaze of Glory

Tue, Nov 11, 1975

When Pepper stop at bank for change she walk in during a bank hold-up and is kidnapped; She remained undercover as a hooker while Pepper charms one of the robbers and his brother to survive , while the police force chases them into the desert.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Glitter with a Bullet

Tue, Nov 18, 1975

Pepper investigates the death of a musician, but has to tangle with a drug dependent rock star and his manipulative Manager.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ The Purge

Tue, Nov 25, 1975

Crowley comes under intense scrutiny after a sting operation at a trucking firm goes horribly wrong leading to the death of an underage youth. He becomes disgruntled when he realizes the department is putting the rights of criminals ahead of his 18 years with the force.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Don't Feed the Pigeons

Tue, Dec 2, 1975

Pepper must infiltrate a trio of ruthless con artists who are duping old ladies out of their money.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ The Hit

Tue, Dec 9, 1975

A hired killer wants to retire, but his powerful Mob boss, forces him to do one last dangerous hit job.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Silence

Tue, Dec 16, 1975

An angular blonde gets off the plane at LAX and takes a cab to her brother in law, Julian's house. She's looking for her sister, Beth, missing six weeks. In his study, there's the woman's portrait, looking suspiciously like a brunette version of Pettet - they are sisters after all. Mute from a childhood growth and resulting surgery, the sister can only communicate through sign-language. Her brother-in-law's secretary, his lover, makes their relationship obvious by her unsuspecting, "Darling!", as she enters the study, and Beth's sister leaves in a huff. While in the middle of another fur-heist case Pepper gets drawn into the case of the missing Beth as she can understand sign language. When the blonde sister winds up stabbed in the shoulder in her hotel room and found by a maid, she claims her brother-in-law is responsible. In interrogation by Pepper and Crowley, the brother-in-law irks the pair by calling the sister "pathetic" and questions Crowley's authority and competence. The brother-in-law denies responsibility for the stabbing. The sister reveals letters that Beth wrote to her which seem to implicate the brother-in-law in something unwholesome. These lead the squad to find a decomposed, decapitated body buried in Northern California they think may be the sister, Beth. During an inquest, the DA verifies that Robert Webber sometimes has the opportunity to use lye in his business, the substance used to speed up the body's decomposition. Webber looks pretty guilty, until Pepper, at home with Pettet downstairs on the couch, gets a call from Crowley: the forensic lab has determined the body is that of an elderly woman. That, and a phone bill revealing a call to the Pettet's native Nova Scotia, prompts Pepper to dial it. The fussy Nova Scotian housekeeper is irritated by the late-night call and when Pepper asks for the sister, she's informed she died six months ago but that her sister, Beth, is out in California. Pepper smells a rat, and goes downstairs to find the sister off the couch doing midnight dish duty. Pepper realizes that the sister is, indeed, Beth herself, and has dyed her hair and adorned contact-lenses in order to pull the ruse. Unable to coax her to put down the loaded gun she's had stuck in Pepper's face for several minutes, Pep jumps her, they fall behind the couch; the gun goes off, and Pepper gets up - and promptly collapses. The guys get there and receive an improbable call from the airport revealing that the sister's flight out will be delayed by a few minutes. Everyone recognizes this as the unlikely plot device it is and they rush for LAX, leaving Pepper behind. There, they spot Joanna Pettet and chase her down, Crowley pulling the fake scar from her throat, thus permitting her to scream.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Incident Near a Black & White

Tue, Dec 23, 1975

Pepper and Crowley lead the search when a fellow officer is killed during a gang fight. Their investigation is impeded when Lt. Buckles sees an arrest in the case as a chance for his advancement.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ The Melting Point of Ice

Tue, Jan 6, 1976

A robbery goes wrong and the situation becomes more complicated when the stolen diamonds go missing. Suspicion centers on a construction site and Pepper goes undercover as a caterer to try and discover who at the site has the diamonds.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ The Pawn Shop

Tue, Jan 20, 1976

Due to a string of high end burglaries, Anderson and Crowley try an undercover sting operation by opening a pawn shop on the West side. Pepper posses as a buyer of quality antiques based out of Paris to try and lure the gang into making a mistakes.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ Angela

Tue, Jan 27, 1976

The father of a policeman's girlfriend tries to frame the officer for selling narcotics.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Wednesday's Child

Tue, Feb 3, 1976

Pepper and Crowley enlist the help of a cat burglar and a nightclub singer to take down a burglary ring preying on wealthy single women.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ Generation of Evil

Tue, Feb 10, 1976

Pepper poses as a Vegas showgirl in an attempt to get to the mobster responsible for the kidnapping of a rival gangster's grandson.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ Double Image

Tue, Feb 17, 1976

Pete Royster falls in love with an extortion suspect he is assigned to guard, a troubled woman who may be the target of a killers.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ Mother Love

Tue, Feb 24, 1976

Pepper gets involved in a child kidnapping case when a close personal friend has his child taken. There are further questions raised over the origins of the child in the first place. People want to know - who exactly is the mother of the child to begin with

23Season 2

S2.E23 ∙ Task Force: Part I

Tue, Mar 2, 1976

Pepper falls for a charming, opera-singing colleague while training with a motorcycle task force.

24Season 2

S2.E24 ∙ Task Force: Part II

Tue, Mar 9, 1976

While her new love hovers near death, Pepper sets out to discover who brutally ran him down.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ The Trick Book

Tue, Sep 28, 1976

The series' only two-hour one-part episode centers on the theft of a madam's client list, which will be worth a fortune in the hands of someone unscrupulous enough to blackmail the various Johns on the list. A seedy, elderly private eye (Jack Gilford) is the first to get his hands on the book. The English reviewers of this episode (which was shown in two parts in the United Kingdom) loved the first hour but thought the second one only a little above average.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Tender Soldier

Tue, Oct 5, 1976

When a patrol cop is shot to death just before dawn in a Los Angeles neighborhood which turns out to be a hot-bed for cult activity, and Monica Dunlap - the daughter of a powerful California businessman - is arrested in a nearby safe-house for the P.C.U. (the Peoples' Combat Unit) Pepper poses as a mysterious '60s activist/terrorist on the lam for years who surfaces in order to infiltrate the group.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Trial by Prejudice

Tue, Oct 12, 1976

When the team investigate a reported burglary and arrest the lookout, a girl, she alleges that Pepper sexually assaulted her.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Sara Who?

Tue, Oct 26, 1976

An all-out effort is made to find the killer of Bill Crowley's police officer girlfriend.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Broken Angels

Tue, Nov 9, 1976

Pepper's alcoholic academy classmate Loretta Muldare working juvenile welfare is placed in peril by a corrupt lawyer and a narcotics ring when pursuing a child abusing addict.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Brainwash

Tue, Nov 16, 1976

Pepper poses as an investigative news reporter to probe the private school where several teenagers have mysteriously died.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ The Lifeline Agency

Tue, Nov 23, 1976

Pepper and Crowley pose as a wealthy couple trying to adopt a child in order to anxious to crack a black market baby ring.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Tennis Bum

Tue, Nov 30, 1976

While working under cover, Pepper becomes romantically involved with a tennis pro and doesn't realize he's also an undercover cop.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Bait

Tue, Dec 7, 1976

Pepper and Bill investigate the rape of a college student.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ The Death of a Dream

Tue, Dec 14, 1976

Pepper disobeys orders and invades a motel room where militants are holding hostages.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Father to the Man

Tue, Dec 21, 1976

Pepper and Bill investigate the kidnapping of a 12-year-old girl whose father is in hock to the mob.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Once a Snitch

Tue, Jan 4, 1977

Pepper poses as a prostitute to learn why an attempt was made on the life of the new chief of police.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Night of the Full Moon

Tue, Jan 11, 1977

Pepper acts as a decoy to capture a schizophrenic young man who strangles middle-aged women.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Banker's Hours

Tue, Jan 18, 1977

Pepper is on the trail of a gang of female bank robbers.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ The Disco Killer

Tue, Jan 25, 1977

Pepper assumes the identity of a woman who was shot during a record-company executive's murder.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Shadow of Doubt

Tue, Feb 1, 1977

Styles is suspected of complicity in the killing of his former girlfriend.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ The Killer Cowboys

Tue, Feb 8, 1977

Frank Converse plays an airline pilot from Pepper's past who comes back to get her just a year or two after his wife's death.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Shark

Tue, Feb 15, 1977

A loan-shark operation terrorizes borrowers to collect bad debts.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ Solitaire

Tue, Feb 22, 1977

A liquor-store stakeout for two robbers goes bad when one of the two cops is blown away by a shotgun before his partner can take down the two robbers. The crooks escape and wind up in Los Angeles, where the surviving cop joins Pepper's team. The cop goes right up the leader's shotgun barrel to knock him unconscious. While Pepper and Crowley wonder about the visiting cop's stability, they get word that a terrorist is planting bombs. This becomes an issue when they take the crooks to the airport and the crooks escape. Pepper and Crowley learn that one of the bombs is in the airport and might take out innocent people, so they have three people to catch. The visiting officer knows it too, and for undisclosed reasons he seems hell-bent reckless on taking down the bad guys if it's the last thing he does. Diana Muldaur literally phones in her part as the visiting officer's wife in New York City.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ Bondage

Tue, Mar 1, 1977

Pepper poses as a movie star to investigate the slaying of a porno actress.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ Silky Chamberlain

Tue, Mar 8, 1977

Con men relieve Crowley's gullible uncle of his life's savings.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ Deadline: Death

Tue, Mar 22, 1977

When a reporter is killed by a car bomb, the man's son starts search for his father's killer.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Do You Still Beat Your Wife?

Tue, Oct 25, 1977

Pepper and Bill help a battered wife who refuses to press charges against her husband.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Guns

Tue, Nov 1, 1977

Pepper acts as a target by offering Congressional testimony against an international gun-running operation.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Means to an End

Tue, Nov 8, 1977

Pepper infiltrates a college drug ring to learn who is supplying cheap but lethal drugs to students.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ The Inside Connection

Tue, Nov 22, 1977

A rookie policewoman is killed while investigating prison drug traffic, so Pepper goes undercover and discovers the prison counselor is more than she seems.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Screams

Tue, Dec 6, 1977

A serial rapist preys on hitchhikers and records their screams.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ The Buttercup Killer

Tue, Dec 13, 1977

When a Greek shop owner's murdered, Crowley's surprised to learn robbery wasn't the motive. The victim was petrified with terror even before he was killed . The killer donnun's habit and walks with a limp. The only clue; a buttercup flower dropped next to the victim.The team realisesthe clues are designed to remind them off someone wronged terribly, and are now to pay the price.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Merry Christmas Waldo

Wed, Dec 14, 1977

In this remake of a "Police Story" episode from that show's first season (but with a different outcome), an old pensioner celebrates the Christmas season by robbing banks through trickery, usually donning a Santa suit and passing a note claiming he has an armed partner (or, in one case, getting a sidewalk Santa to stand by while he robs the bank in civilian clothes). The old man lives very quietly, except that he's a forceful advocate for the elderly. Pepper and Crowley begin to suspect that he's not pulling the robberies for himself, but to benefit other old people.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ Death Game

Wed, Dec 21, 1977

It's hot and the air keeps going out in the police station. A street kid threatens Pepper while she drags him into a prison cell, making her wonder why the guys seem to take their rage out on women, if there's one around. Then, frustrated that their latest drug bust (Nehemiah Persoff) has already made bail before they can finish their drinks at Vinnie's, Pepper leaves the bar and almost gets run over on purpose in the parking lot, but, being a good cop, she just goes home and doesn't tell anybody about it until later. When she finally does, Bill is pissed, and they suspect Persoff, who just grins in interrogation. She then wakes up in the middle of the night with a cloaked figure hovering over her with a knife (later shown to be a toy) to her throat who swears he could kill her whenever he wants. She "wrestles" it out of his hands and he escapes through an open sliding glass door in her disco bedroom and into the night. She's placed in protection, and when she goes to meet her snitch and someone in a sluggish, 15 year old hearse car (which can't be caught) takes a shot at her, Crowley literally picks up a screeching Danny DeVito and hauls him off to jail under Pepper's gasping protestations. Later still, someone blows up a talcum powder bomb in the garage of the building she's being protected in. Pepper goes and vacations in a cabin with no phone in the mountains. She gets chased by an "old" man with a rifle until Angie trips and he catches her. Turns out his son died in prison after Pepper sent him up for rape, and Mr. Valerie Harper gives an 18th century speech about how women "ask for it" with their wily ways and plunging necklines. As usual, a ranger out of nowhere appears to save Angie, so when Mr. Valerie turns in response to the approaching uniform, she slips a Freudian log into his belly. Pep and the guys have a beer back at the cabin and Pepper swoons over the hot ranger and makes a funny accent.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ Ambition

Wed, Dec 28, 1977

An icy lawyer and his lackey, a music producer, both of whom are shaking down criminal suspects for money to buy off the charges against them, see the chance to pin their crimes on a young cop who's too eager to bust suspects and rise in the ranks.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Blind Terror

Wed, Jan 4, 1978

Sandra Dee is a blind mom in the desert whom Pepper is protecting. But, being the desert, Angie's also got big dark sunglasses, so when the mob shows up to grab Sandy while she's inside, they mistake one for the other, chasing Pepper into the yucca, baby in tow.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ Tigress

Wed, Jan 11, 1978

Pepper resents her assignment to protect an unscrupulous former classmate who is now a political candidate.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ Sunset

Wed, Jan 18, 1978

While investigating into the death of a race car driver, Crowley seeks a reconciliation with his dying ex-wife.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ The Young and the Fair

Wed, Jan 25, 1978

Pepper goes undercover as a college student to investigate a professor who may be involved with a white slavery ring.

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ The Human Rights of Tiki Kim

Wed, Feb 1, 1978

The Korean mob (led by Philip Ahn in his last role) tries to put muscle on Koreatown by extortion and murder. An immigrant organizes a neighborhood association to fight them, so the gang targets the honest man's cute 8-year-old niece for kidnapping, with the price for her safe return being that he remain silent. They then arrange for her to be "adopted" and sent back to Korea by a native family they've hired, using their Washington connections to threaten the man with arrest for violating immigration laws if he, Pepper or a friendly journalist interfere. The title comes from a Jimmy Carter speech denouncing the South Korean regime (at the time) for violating the rights of its citizens. Plays very much like a "Lou Grant" episode until the final 10 minutes. This was the only major role for young actress Shang-Hur.

15Season 4

S4.E15 ∙ Sixth Sense

Wed, Feb 8, 1978

Stopped at a traffic light while driving to work, Crowley notices the driver of the next car is unusually nervous and sweaty, and apparently has "made" Crowley as a cop. Crowley shows his badge and orders the driver to pull over, which he does. After questioning the man, Crowley forces his car trunk -- and finds a woman inside, unconscious from multiple stab wounds. The driver flees on foot, but Crowley tackles him. But Crowley had no legal justification to search the car, as a furious police captain reminds him, and the man -- who was the assailant -- is released from custody. The woman dies without regaining consciousness. Pepper and Crowley soon find evidence that the man is a totally psychotic woman-hater and that the woman in the trunk (played by a pre-"Vegas" Phyllis Davis in one very short scene) was his third victim after insulting him. With the boss still breathing down their necks, Pepper and Crowley dog the man, his wife and his "real" mistress, hoping to get one or the other to break down and force the killer's hand again. Contains an incredibly stupid final chase scene.

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S4.E16 ∙ Sons

Wed, Feb 15, 1978

Rookie cop Lance Johnson is new on the beat in one of the most dangerous areas in town. He makes it a rule to become acquainted with folks there, being real friendly and helpful. One night he is lured into a trap by a local motorbike gang and severely beaten. While he is fighting for his life in hospital, Sergeants Crowley and Anderson are trying to investigate but end up facing a wall of silence. When the owner of a local café finally breaks his silence, his son is stabbed to death. Still, the wealthy parents of the neighborhood protect their sons and treat the owner of the café like a traitor. Slowly, the CC unit is closing the net around the killing gang, but soon the situation is about to get out of control. It's up to Crowley and Anderson to stop the leader of the kill-crazy gang before more innocent blood is spilled...

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S4.E17 ∙ Murder with Pretty People

Wed, Feb 22, 1978

A war is raging in the world of the rich and beautiful, a war between the model agencies of John Paul and his rival, former star model Liz Adams. When Liz is killed one night, Pepper Anderson goes undercover to pose as a model (see photographer (played by...Allan Carr dressed in bedsheets). Soon, she finds out there 's more than one person who had reason to want to see Liz Adams dead. When Pepper finally crosses paths with the killer, things are getting real ugly.

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S4.E18 ∙ Battered Teachers

Wed, Mar 1, 1978

They call themselves the "Death Squad" and they make their fellow students at Southern High go through hell. Extortion, beatings, rape - a bunch of rich kids think they have the power, and an equally power-hungry headmaster keeps eyes and ears closed. When a teacher is severely beaten and ends up in hospital, Crowley and Anderson move in. Crowley takes over as a teacher while Pepper goes undercover at the school clinic. Soon, the gang terrorizes another teacher, Karen Vaugn. But this time they go too far - when Karen is abducted, beaten and raped, her husband goes on an avenging rampage, and it seems that nothing and nobody can stop him - not even Sergeants Crowley and Anderson. But soon Frank Vaugn realizes that he has bitten off more than he can chew...

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S4.E19 ∙ A Shadow on the Sea

Wed, Mar 8, 1978

Pepper, a waterfront cop and an old sea dog go after two boat hijackers who murdered a honeymooning couple and seem willing to steal and kill more to set up a smuggling operation.

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S4.E20 ∙ Sweet Kathleen

Wed, Mar 15, 1978

A sweet smile, a charming face, an enchanting voice, a helpful and friendly employee - Kathleen is all that. She's also an ex-con who happens to work as executive secretary for the investment company of Mr. Saunders. She calls Sergeant Crowley's CC unit one morning and advises them the building where her office is located about be be robbed but hangs up before any further information can be imparted. A non-violent robbery occurs but one of the robbers is killed. Crowley is faced with one of the most baffling cases of his career. Soon, he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous cat-and-mouse game, which is far more convoluted than it initially appears -- and at the wrong end of a gun.

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S4.E21 ∙ Flip of a Coin

Thu, Mar 23, 1978

When the department decides to cut one of the investigator positions of Sergeant Crowley's CC Unit, Joe Styles ends up being transferred to another section where he is assigned night shift duty. While he is becoming more and more depressed, his wife Harriet battles with the threat of breast cancer. While Pepper is trying to get Harriet through the predicament of hospital checkup procedures, young and wealthy Joslyn Westmore is being kidnapped and held for ransom. Her husband, board chairman of a large company, is desperate. When Sergeant Crowley decides to get Joe Styles back on the team to stand in for the Westmore's chauffeur who has to deliver the ransom, he doesn't know that Joe ends up between a rock and a hard place.

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S4.E22 ∙ Good Old Uncle Ben

Wed, Mar 29, 1978

Pepper meets up with her childhood mentor, now an elderly cattle rancher. The rancher, facing mounting expenses due to the illness of his wife, has linked up with a beef company that steals cows. But the rancher becomes disgusted with the operation when it murders two subordinates and when a young-punk assistant rustler, in business on his own, draws down on him in an argument. The rancher decides to break the gang on his own.