Police Women The End Game aged well. Unlike some other shows I saw as a child and re watched is still good! The End Game has few plot holes and formulated, but has a strong lead character. Angie drives the show as balanced character. Un like many many of today's female characters which have to be way too over macho that the believability just dies. Angie character can be sweet and female which are some of her strongest strengths, which balance out Police Women as a hard detective edge. Angie has a heart for the victims which makes her a better investigator, and does solid detective work that tracks bank robbers down. Like all 70's police show when it's time to rock and roll Angie takes these creation go down! Well acted, directed with a very 70's police show plot. 7 stars.
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Freeze You Jive Turkey!
JasonDanielBaker23 November 2011
The unit pursues a gang of out of towner bank robbers including a young woman who seems very much like a Patty Hearst type and another young woman who looks like a refugee from Superfly or Shaft. One of the three men in the gang has an ugly track record of rape.
Pepper (Angie Dickinson) balances femininity with solid police work surrounded by sensitive modern guys in her unit. It isn't easy for her as she watches a young policeman shot in the opening scenes and can only watch as he dies in her arms.
While the series has become almost synonymous with feminist ideals if you go by this initial episode you don't really see the kind of gender war stuff that different varieties of feminism espouse.
Pepper is a valued colleague to her fellow officers who know she is solid at what she does due to her professional attitude, top flight training and years of on the job experience.
She also happens to be the fastest gun and most accurate shot we see on the show which given the shoot em up nature of cop shows at the time was evidently the primary measure of whether a cop was any good.
But the implication we also see presented is that she might have something extra to offer because she is female and it is a notion that some might take offence at today.
Pepper is able to get a kidnapped female teller to admit she was raped by one of the gang. The teller, hospitalized by the ordeal, was reluctant to relate the experience to Pepper's male colleagues Sgt.Crowley, Styles and Royster.
Pepper is also able to deal with kids abducted and released by the gang and in each instance get invaluable information. So this character is presented as having something different to offer in her job than her male colleagues i.e. nurturing and sensitivity i.e. a feminine stereotype. Sexist? Or an example of what feminism once meant? I think it is more that this is meant to show a dynamic individual who transcends labels. She wears her heart on her sleeve at times and will even occasionally allow the guys in her unit to know she is a little scared by it all. She is comfortable enough to be herself in her job without worrying what people will think it means.
Police Woman was actually spun off from an episode of the series Police Story which launched a number of cop shows. The Police Story pilot episode of Police Woman featured the same basic set-up of a woman cop portrayed by Angie Dickinson but the character had a different name on Police Story than she had on Police Woman and her commanding officer was portrayed by a badly miscast Bert Convy instead of a well-cast Earl Holliman.
One notes the casting of supporting actresses in this episode. Other than Linda Dano the women we see as guest stars aren't as attractive as Angie Dickinson or in Hollywood terms even photogenic enough to be on screen as anything other than background performers. Was it a prerequisite that the other women on screen not be as attractive as the star? I'd be very surprised if it wasn't as an industry vet like Angie Dickinson was no dummy.
If it looks like the cast is wearing stuff they got from Salvation Army it is because the stuff they are wearing was new back then but is stuff that would be donated to thrift stores by now. If you wonder why anyone would wear stuff like that if they had a choice you aren't alone.
Pepper (Angie Dickinson) balances femininity with solid police work surrounded by sensitive modern guys in her unit. It isn't easy for her as she watches a young policeman shot in the opening scenes and can only watch as he dies in her arms.
While the series has become almost synonymous with feminist ideals if you go by this initial episode you don't really see the kind of gender war stuff that different varieties of feminism espouse.
Pepper is a valued colleague to her fellow officers who know she is solid at what she does due to her professional attitude, top flight training and years of on the job experience.
She also happens to be the fastest gun and most accurate shot we see on the show which given the shoot em up nature of cop shows at the time was evidently the primary measure of whether a cop was any good.
But the implication we also see presented is that she might have something extra to offer because she is female and it is a notion that some might take offence at today.
Pepper is able to get a kidnapped female teller to admit she was raped by one of the gang. The teller, hospitalized by the ordeal, was reluctant to relate the experience to Pepper's male colleagues Sgt.Crowley, Styles and Royster.
Pepper is also able to deal with kids abducted and released by the gang and in each instance get invaluable information. So this character is presented as having something different to offer in her job than her male colleagues i.e. nurturing and sensitivity i.e. a feminine stereotype. Sexist? Or an example of what feminism once meant? I think it is more that this is meant to show a dynamic individual who transcends labels. She wears her heart on her sleeve at times and will even occasionally allow the guys in her unit to know she is a little scared by it all. She is comfortable enough to be herself in her job without worrying what people will think it means.
Police Woman was actually spun off from an episode of the series Police Story which launched a number of cop shows. The Police Story pilot episode of Police Woman featured the same basic set-up of a woman cop portrayed by Angie Dickinson but the character had a different name on Police Story than she had on Police Woman and her commanding officer was portrayed by a badly miscast Bert Convy instead of a well-cast Earl Holliman.
One notes the casting of supporting actresses in this episode. Other than Linda Dano the women we see as guest stars aren't as attractive as Angie Dickinson or in Hollywood terms even photogenic enough to be on screen as anything other than background performers. Was it a prerequisite that the other women on screen not be as attractive as the star? I'd be very surprised if it wasn't as an industry vet like Angie Dickinson was no dummy.
If it looks like the cast is wearing stuff they got from Salvation Army it is because the stuff they are wearing was new back then but is stuff that would be donated to thrift stores by now. If you wonder why anyone would wear stuff like that if they had a choice you aren't alone.
Something weird about this story
searchanddestroy-117 June 2016
That's the first episode I comment from this series that was aired in France back in the late seventies. I did not see all the episodes at this time, but now I will. And also comment them all, unless they are already done. I totally agree with what the other viewer said. But I also will add that this story is not realistic at all. I would say it is even laughable. First, you have here, at least in the first sequence, a female police officer - Dickinson - running with high heels sandals. ha ha ha !!!And after the first robbery, they investigate in very improbable directions, such as the ball or token game stuff, but they don't even wonder about the fingerprints, because if you watch closely, the hoodlums don't wear gloves...Speaking of this, you will also notice that the gangsters wear stocking masks for the home assaults but not for the bank robberies. I don't know what the f...the screen writer did, but that's a total nonsense. No robbers would rob a bank in front of all clients and employees without a mask. And I guess that after such robberies, the first clue which the police force would pick up would be fingerprints...But that story remains a good time waster. And Angie Dickinson is so beautiful that you can easily forget the rest.
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