List of Police Woman episodes
This is a list of episodes for the television series Police Woman.
Series overview
The first season has been released on DVD by Sony Pictures, and the second season by Shout! Factory.[1]
| Season | Episodes | Premiered: | Ended: | DVD set | ||
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| Company | Release date | |||||
| Pilot | 1 | March 26, 1974 | Sony Pictures | March 7, 2006 | ||
| 1 | 22 | September 13, 1974 | March 14, 1975 | |||
| 2 | 24 | September 12, 1975 | March 2, 1976 | Shout! Factory | February 7, 2012 | |
| 3 | 24 | September 28, 1976 | March 22, 1977 | -- | -- | |
| 4 | 22 | October 25, 1977 | March 30, 1978 | -- | -- | |
Pilot: 1974
The pilot for this series was an episode of Police Story titled "The Gamble" (March 26, 1974), in which Angie Dickinson was introduced as a vice officer named Lisa Beaumont.[2]
Episodes
- Nº = Overall episode number
- Ep = Episode number by season
Season 1: 1974–75
| Nº | Ep | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Air date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "The End Game" | Alvin Ganzer | Mark Rodgers | September 13, 1974 | |
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Pepper (Angie Dickinson) and Crowley (Earl Holliman) pose as bank employees to nail a particularly vicious gang of bank robbers. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "The Beautiful Die Young" | Barry Shear | Douglas Benton, Edward DeBlasio | September 20, 1974 | |
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Pepper investigates a modeling school which is actually a front for supplying young girls to the porn business and overseas white slave trade. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Warning: All Wives..." | Arnold Laven | Edward DeBlasio | September 27, 1974 | |
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Pepper and Bill go undercover to catch a rapist/killer who is targeting the wives of patients at a hospital. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Seven Eleven" | Richard Benedict | Frank Telford | October 4, 1974 | |
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Pepper goes undercover and impersonates an airline stewardess who is a link in a complex heroin smuggling chain. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Anatomy of Two Rapes" | Barry Shear | Richard M. Bluel, Pat Fielder | October 11, 1974 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "It's Only a Game" | Leonard Horn | David Dugan, Gregory K. Scott | October 25, 1974 | |
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Squad veterans question whether their newest member really wants the job or is being pushed into it by his father, a retired detective. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Fish" | Bernard McEveety | Frank Telford | November 1, 1974 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Flowers of Evil" | Alexander Singer | John W. Bloch, Joshua Hanke | November 8, 1974 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "The Stalking of Joey Marr" | Bernard McEveety | Irving Gaynor Neiman | November 22, 1974 | |
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Pepper must transfer the son of a murdered gang chief from Mexico to testify against a killer. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Requiem for Bored Wives" | Alvin Ganzer | Irving Elman | November 29, 1974 | |
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Bob Crane plays a freewheeling disc jockey who finds his wife murdered in her bed. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "Smack" | John Newland | Richard M. Bluel, Pat Fielder | December 6, 1974 | |
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Pepper goes undercover as a high school teacher to hunt down a group of drug pushers. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "The Cradle Robbers" | Richard Benedict | Larry Brody | December 13, 1974 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Shoefly" | Alvin Ganzer | Edward DeBlasio, Joshua Hanke, Daniel B. Ullman | December 20, 1974 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 14 | 14 | "Target Black" | Charles S. Dubin | Irving Gaynor Neiman | January 3, 1975 | |
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Pepper serves as bodyguard for a visiting campus speaker who, being black and Marxist, is a magnet for threats from hate groups. | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | "Sidewinder" | Reza Badiyi | Richard M. Bluel, Gregory K. Scott | January 17, 1975 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 16 | 16 | "Blast" | Alvin Ganzer | Chester Krumholtz | January 24, 1975 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 17 | 17 | "No Place to Hide" | Leonard Horn | Sean Baine | January 31, 1975 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 18 | 18 | "Nothing Left to Lose" | Alexander Singer | Douglas Benton, Edward DeBlasio, Shimon Wincelberg | February 14, 1975 | |
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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? | ||||||
| 19 | 19 | "The Company" | Alvin Ganzer | Gregory K. Scott | February 21, 1975 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 20 | 20 | "Ice" | David Moessinger | E. Arthur Kean, David Moessinger | February 28, 1975 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 21 | 21 | "Bloody Nose" | Leonard Horn | Shimon Wincelberg | March 7, 1975 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 22 | 22 | "The Loner" | John Newland | Burton Armus | March 14, 1975 | |
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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's after his client. | ||||||
Season 2: 1975–76
| Nº | Ep | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Air date | |
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| 23 | 1 | "Pawns of Power" | Barry Shear | Sean Baine | September 12, 1975 | |
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Pepper investigates an illegal gambling operation whose owners are also suspected of counterfeiting. | ||||||
| 24 | 2 | "The Score" | Barry Crane | Gabe Essoe | September 19, 1975 | |
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A drug pusher's sale of particularly potent speed causes several overdose deaths, and creates an emotional crisis for the criminal's guilt-ridden girlfriend. | ||||||
| 25 | 3 | "Paradise Mall" | Alvin Ganzer | Frank Telford | September 26, 1975 | |
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A detective's wife is the latest of a killer's victims, who are all blondes and whose corpses are adorned with wedding veils. | ||||||
| 26 | 4 | "Pattern for Evil" | John Newland | Edward DeBlasio | October 3, 1975 | |
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Pepper goes undercover as a fashion consultant when a designer loses more than just designs. | ||||||
| 27 | 5 | "The Chasers" | Barry Shear | Irve Tunick | October 10, 1975 | |
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A group of con artists who prey on auto-accident victims choose the wrong patsy — Pepper, who awakens in the hospital after being knocked unconscious by a speeding car. | ||||||
| 28 | 6 | "Cold Wind" | Alexander Singer | Ralph L. Kelly | October 17, 1975 | |
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Suspicion for the murder of two factory employees falls on two co-workers: a compulsive gambler who had a fight with one of the victims, and an enigmatic college student who disappeared on the night of the crime. | ||||||
| 29 | 7 | "Above and Beyond" | Alexander Singer | Elroy Schwartz | October 31, 1975 | |
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After a parole officer is murdered, Pepper goes undercover as a parolee to find out why and how he was killed. | ||||||
| 30 | 8 | "Farewell, Mary Jane" | Douglas Benton | Gregory K. Scott | November 4, 1975 | |
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Pepper engineers a major drug purchase to help capture a police informant turned drug dealer. | ||||||
| 31 | 9 | "Blaze of Glory" | Barry Shear | Shimon Wincelberg | November 11, 1975 | |
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While posing as a prostitute, Pepper is taken hostage by a glory-seeking, bank-robbing couple. | ||||||
| 32 | 10 | "Glitter with a Bullet" | John Newland | S.S. Schweitzer | November 18, 1975 | |
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While investigating the death of a well-known musician, Pepper becomes involved with a confused young rock star and his ruthless manager. | ||||||
| 33 | 11 | "The Purge" | Alvin Ganzer | Burton Armus | November 25, 1975 | |
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Pepper goes undercover to clear Crowley, who is suspended for killing a teenager, and find out the real reason behind the attack. | ||||||
| 34 | 12 | "Don't Feed the Pigeons" | Herschel Daugherty | John W. Bloch, Joshua Hanke | December 2, 1975 | |
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When an old lady is killed for her possessions, Sgt. Pepper and the crew find that a group is using "the oldest trick in the book" to fool grannies out of their money. | ||||||
| 35 | 13 | "The Hit" | David Moessinger | David Moessinger | December 9, 1975 | |
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A boxer's life hangs by a thread as a hitman, who had failed to get him the first time, must finish the job or his employers will finish him off. | ||||||
| 36 | 14 | "Silence" | Barry Shear | Edward DeBlasio | October 24, 1975 | |
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When a woman goes missing, her mute sister tries to find her, accusing the missing woman's husband of foul play. | ||||||
| 37 | 15 | "Incident Near a Black and White" | Herschel Daugherty | Gregory K. Scott | December 23, 1975 | |
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Working under an ambitious Lieutenant with no street experience, Pepper and team go out in search of a cop killer. | ||||||
| 38 | 16 | "The Melting Point of Ice" | Robert Vaughn | Shimon Wincelberg | January 6, 1976 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 39 | 17 | "The Pawn Shop" | Richard Benedict | S.S. Schweitzer, Gregory K. Scott | January 20, 1976 | |
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Pepper goes undercover to catch a burglar dealing in high grade antiques through a pawnshop. | ||||||
| 40 | 18 | "Angela" | Alvin Ganzer | Irv Pearlberg | December 16, 1975 | |
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When the boyfriend of a drug dealer's daughter is framed, the team investigates. | ||||||
| 41 | 19 | "Wednesday's Child" | Barry Shear | Sean Baine | February 3, 1976 | |
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A cat burglar and a nightclub singer are enlisted to break up a burglary ring that preys on wealthy single women. | ||||||
| 42 | 20 | "Generation of Evil" | Corey Allen | Stanley Roberts | February 10, 1976 | |
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Pepper goes undercover in Las Vegas to find the kidnapped grandson of an elderly millionaire. | ||||||
| 43 | 21 | "Double Image" | Barry Shear | Joseph Polizzi | February 17, 1976 | |
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Royster falls in love with a key witness he's tasked to protect in a murder trial. | ||||||
| 44 | 22 | "Mother Love" | John Newland | Max Hodge | February 24, 1976 | |
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A young woman who is mentally disturbed kidnaps the child she gave up at birth. | ||||||
| 45 | 23 | "Task Force: Cop Killer: Part 1" | Barry Shear | Douglas Benton, Edward DeBlasio | March 2, 1976 | |
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While training with a motorcycle task force to prove women can be effective motorcycle cops, Pepper falls for a smooth talker. | ||||||
| 46 | 24 | "Task Force: Cop Killer: Part 2" | Barry Shear | Douglas Benton, Edward DeBlasio | March 2, 1976 | |
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Pepper is in search of the persons responsible for her boyfriend's "accident" while he hovers near death. | ||||||
Season 3: 1976–77
| Nº | Ep | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Air date | |
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| 47 | 1 | "The Trick Book: Part 1" | Barry Shear | Douglas Benton, Edward DeBlasio | September 28, 1976 | |
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An influential banker informs the police that he is being blackmailed by Madame Hilary La Salle, operator of a very classy brothel. Apparently she has been keeping a little black book — her "trick book" — containing details of all her clients. | ||||||
| 48 | 2 | "The Trick Book: Part 2" | Barry Shear | Douglas Benton, Edward DeBlasio | September 28, 1976 | |
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When Madame DeSalle is found murdered and the "trick book" goes missing, Pepper Anderson and Bill Crowley are called in to investigate. | ||||||
| 49 | 3 | "Tender Soldier" | Corey Allen | Scott Swanton | October 5, 1976 | |
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Pepper poses as a revolutionary to nab the terrorist who murdered a police officer. | ||||||
| 50 | 4 | "Trial by Prejudice" | Barry Shear | Sean Baine | October 12, 1976 | |
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Pepper, suspended from duty, faces a departmental trial when a suspect claims that Pepper sexually molested her at the time of her arrest. | ||||||
| 51 | 5 | "Sara Who?" | Jerry London | Douglas Benton, Edward DeBlasio | October 26, 1976 | |
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Crowley vows vengeance on the psychopath who killed the policewoman Crowley was dating. | ||||||
| 52 | 6 | "Broken Angels" | Corey Allen | Kenneth Peters | November 9, 1976 | |
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The victim of a murder attempt arranged to look like a drunk-driving accident is an officer with a drinking problem. | ||||||
| 53 | 7 | "Brainwash" | John Newland | Rudolph Borchert | November 16, 1976 | |
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Pepper poses as an investigative news reporter to probe the private school where several teenagers have mysteriously died. | ||||||
| 54 | 8 | "The Lifeline Agency" | Corey Allen | Gabe Essoe | November 23, 1976 | |
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Pepper and Crowley pose as a wealthy couple anxious to negotiate with a baby-selling operation. | ||||||
| 55 | 9 | "Tennis Bum" | Alvin Ganzer | Gregory K. Scott | November 30, 1976 | |
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Pepper is working undercover on a syndicate case, and becomes romantically involved with a tennis pro; what she doesn't realize is that he's an undercover cop as well. | ||||||
| 56 | 10 | "Bait" | David Moessinger | David Moessinger | December 7, 1976 | |
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A rapist whose latest victim was a college girl is sought by Pepper and Crowley. | ||||||
| 57 | 11 | "The Death of a Dream" | * | * | December 14, 1976 | |
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Pepper Anderson, as well as a city councilman and his masseuse, is held hostage by terrorists. | ||||||
| 58 | 12 | "Father to the Man" | * | * | December 21, 1976 | |
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A young girl who witnessed a murder becomes the target of two gangsters who meant to kill her father. | ||||||
| 59 | 13 | "Night of the Full Moon" | Alvin Ganzer | Don Balluck | December 28, 1976 | |
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Pepper is the decoy in a strategy to capture a schizophrenic young man who strangles middle-aged women. | ||||||
| 60 | 14 | "Once a Snitch" | Alvin Ganzer | Sean Baine | January 4, 1977 | |
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Pepper poses as a prostitute to learn why an attempt was made on the life of the new chief of police. | ||||||
| 61 | 15 | "Barney" | * | * | January 11, 1977 | |
| 62 | 16 | "Banker's Hours" | John Newland | Daniel B. Ullman | January 18, 1977 | |
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Pepper is on the trail of a gang of lady bank robbers. | ||||||
| 63 | 17 | "Disco Killer" | Ernest Pintoff | Stanley Roberts | January 25, 1977 | |
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Pepper assumes the identity of a woman who was shot during a record-company executive's murder. | ||||||
| 64 | 18 | "Shadow of a Doubt" | Alf Kjellin | Daniel B. Ullman | February 1, 1977 | |
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Styles is suspected of complicity in the killing of his former girlfriend. | ||||||
| 65 | 19 | "The Killer Cowboys" | Alexander Singer | Edward DeBlasio | February 8, 1977 | |
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Pepper renews her romance with a test pilot, and she and Crowley pursue homicidal thieves who dress as cowboys. | ||||||
| 66 | 20 | "Shark" | John Newland | Rudolph Borchert | February 15, 1977 | |
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A loan-shark operation terrorizes borrowers to collect bad debts. | ||||||
| 67 | 21 | "Solitaire" | Douglas Benton | Gregory K. Scott | February 22, 1977 | |
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Pepper comes to the aid of an officer who is trying to recapture a cop killer that escaped while in his custody. | ||||||
| 68 | 22 | "Bondage" | Arnold Laven | Irv Pearlberg, Frank Telford | March 1, 1977 | |
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Pepper assumes the role of a porn queen after a hard-core film actress is murdered. | ||||||
| 69 | 23 | "Silky Chamberlain" | Barry Shear | Douglas Benton, Edward DeBlasio | March 8, 1977 | |
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Con men relieve Crowley's gullible uncle of his life's savings. | ||||||
| 70 | 24 | "Deadline: Death" | John Newland | Gregory K. Scott | March 22, 1977 | |
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After a reporter is killed by a car bomb, the man's son begins a search for his father's murderer. | ||||||
* Unknown
Season 4: 1977–78
| Nº | Ep | Title | Directed by: | Written by: | Air date | |
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| 71 | 1 | "Do You Still Beat Your Wife?" | Corey Allen | Edward DeBlasio | October 25, 1977 | |
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Undercover cop Pepper Anderson and partner Bill Crowley aid a battered wife who refuses to press charges against her brutal husband. | ||||||
| 72 | 2 | "Guns" | Alvin Ganzer | Burton Armus | November 1, 1977 | |
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Pepper sets herself up as a target by offering Congressional testimony against an international gun-running operation. | ||||||
| 73 | 3 | "Means to an End" | John Newland | Sean Baine | November 8, 1977 | |
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Pepper infiltrates a college drug ring to learn who is supplying cheap but lethal downers to students. | ||||||
| 74 | 4 | "The Inside Connection" | John Newland | Frank Telford | November 22, 1977 | |
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Pepper poses as a prisoner to find the killer of a rookie policewoman who was investigation a drug operation in the women's county jail. | ||||||
| 75 | 5 | "Screams" | David Moessinger | David Moessinger | December 6, 1977 | |
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A demented rapist-murderer is preying on hitchhikers. | ||||||
| 76 | 6 | "The Buttercup Killer" | Michael Mann | Gabe Essoe | December 13, 1977 | |
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A killer attired in a nun's habit is slaying members of a Greek family, leaving only a dried buttercup as a clue. | ||||||
| 77 | 7 | "Merry Christmas Waldo" | E. Arthur Kean | E. Arthur Kean | December 14, 1977 | |
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An elderly Santa Claus robs banks using trickery, to assure his indigent friends a merry Christmas. | ||||||
| 78 | 8 | "Death Game" | John Newland | Don Balluck | December 21, 1977 | |
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Pepper is driven to the brink of a nervous collapse by an unidentified assailant threatening her life. | ||||||
| 79 | 9 | "Ambition" | Virgil W. Vogel | Adrian Leeds | December 28, 1977 | |
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An overzealous detective becomes implicated in an extortion scam. | ||||||
| 80 | 10 | "Blind Terror" | Virgil W. Vogel | Douglas Benton, Edward DeBlasio | January 4, 1978 | |
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It's a case of mistaken identity when criminals kidnap Pepper, thinking she's the wife of an accountant who uncovered payoffs from a criminal syndicate. | ||||||
| 81 | 11 | "Tigress" | Douglas Benton | Max Hodge | January 11, 1978 | |
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Pepper resents her assignment to protect an unscrupulous former classmate who is now a political candidate. | ||||||
| 82 | 12 | "Sunset" | David Moessinger | Kenette Gfeller | January 18, 1978 | |
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In the midst of the investigation into the death of a race car driver, Crowley and his dying ex-wife seek reconciliation. | ||||||
| 83 | 13 | "The Young and the Fair" | Corey Allen | Irv Pearlberg | January 25, 1978 | |
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A local professor may be involved with a white slavery racket, so Pepper goes undercover as a college student. | ||||||
| 84 | 14 | "The Human Rights of Tiki Kim" | Virgil W. Vogel | Jackson Gillis | February 1, 1978 | |
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A young girl from Korea is abducted and held to prevent her from talking about the murder she witnessed. | ||||||
| 85 | 15 | "Sixth Sense" | David Moessinger | Jack M. Casey, David Moessinger | February 8, 1978 | |
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Crowley discovers a woman near death in a car trunk, but the driver — her assailant — is freed on a technicality. | ||||||
| 86 | 16 | "Sons" | Richard Benedict | Edward DeBlasio | February 15, 1978 | |
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A rookie cop is beaten and a man tells the police what he knows about it, only to have his son murdered. | ||||||
| 87 | 17 | "Murder with Pretty People" | John Newland | Max Hodge | February 22, 1978 | |
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A model agency owner, who was not a popular person to begin with, is murdered, sending Pepper undercover as a fashion model to find the killer. | ||||||
| 88 | 18 | "Battered Teachers" | Alvin Ganzer | Daniel Benton | March 1, 1978 | |
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Teachers are being terrorized at a high school by local area hoods, so Pepper goes back to school to go after them. | ||||||
| 89 | 19 | "A Shadow on the Sea" | Alvin Ganzer | Jack M. Casey | March 8, 1978 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 90 | 20 | "Sweet Kathleen" | Douglas Benton | Sean Baine | March 15, 1978 | |
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A woman tells Crowley a story of how she knew the details about a robbery but was forced to keep those facts to herself or face the consequences. | ||||||
| 91 | 21 | "Flip of a Coin" | George Lehr | Jack M. Casey | March 23, 1978 | |
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Styles's wife is facing surgery and he's having trouble concentrating on a kidnapping case. | ||||||
| 92 | 22 | "Good Old Uncle Ben" | Larry Stewart | Daniel B. Ullman | March 30, 1978 | |
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An old friend of Pepper's gets drawn into a cattle stealing scheme. | ||||||