7.3/1038 votesLoading...#1 - Trial by Prejudice
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1976
Pepper, suspended from duty, faces a departmental trial when a suspect claims that Pepper sexually molested her at the time of her arrest.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1032 votesLoading...#2 - Do You Still Beat Your Wife?
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/25/1977
Undercover cop Pepper Anderson and partner Bill Crowley aid a battered wife who refuses to press charges against her brutal husband.
Director: Corey Allen
Writer: N/A
7.2/10115 votesLoading...#3 - The End Game
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1974
Pepper and Crowley pose as bank employees to nail a particularly vicious gang of bank robbers.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: N/A
7.2/1057 votesLoading...#4 - Nothing Left to Lose
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/14/1975
Larue Collins a police informer is pursued relentlessly by the mob. The song 'Me and Bobby McGee' is the theme used for this episode, which most describe as the best Police Woman episode.
Director: Alexander Singer, Leonard Horn
Writer: Douglas Benton
7.1/1078 votesLoading...#5 - Flowers of Evil
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1974
"Flowers of Evil" is a 1974 episode of the American police procedural television series Police Woman. The episode features Sgt. Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson going undercover at a nursing home to investigate a murder. She uncovers a trio of lesbians who are robbing and murdering their elderly residents. The episode, the 8th of the first season, originally aired on November 8, 1974. Gay and lesbian organizations protested "Flowers of Evil", which producers said was based on a real case, for its portrayal of the killers as lesbians and for the stereotypical presentation of lesbianism. The episode aired a month after a similarly controversial episode of Marcus Welby, M.D. on ABC garnered national protests. Mindful of that recent controversy, NBC delayed the episode and ordered some changes but they were not enough to allay gay and lesbian concern over network television's negative portrayal of homosexuality. After negotiations, NBC agreed not to rerun the episode.
Director: Alexander Singer, Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.1/1060 votesLoading...#6 - 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.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1045 votesLoading...
#7 - The Trick Book Part 1
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1976
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.
Director: Barry Shear
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1030 votesLoading...
#8 - Tennis Bum
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1976
Pepper is working undercover on a syndicate case, and becomes romantically involved with a tennis pro; what she does not realize is that he is an undercover cop as well.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#9 - Shark
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/1977
A loan-shark operation terrorizes borrowers to collect bad debts.
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1038 votesLoading...
#10 - Merry Christmas, Waldo
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 12/14/1977
An elderly Santa Claus robs banks using trickery, to assure his indigent friends a merry Christmas.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/1053 votesLoading...#11 - Requiem for Bored Wives
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1974
Bob Crane plays a freewheeling disc jockey who finds his wife murdered in her bed.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.0/1054 votesLoading...#12 - 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.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: N/A
7.0/1034 votesLoading...#13 - 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.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
- 7.0/1035 votesLoading...
#14 - Sarah Who?
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1976
Crowley vows vengeance on the psychopath who killed the policewoman Crowley was dating.
Director: Jerry London
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1033 votesLoading...
#15 - Bait
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1976
A rapist whose latest victim was a college girl is sought by Pepper and Crowley.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Moessinger
7.0/1038 votesLoading...#16 - Once a Snitch
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/4/1977
Bernie Casey guest stars as P.J. Johnson. Pepper poses as a prostitute to learn why an attempt was made on the life of the new chief of police.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/1086 votesLoading...#17 - 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. The first suspect is the amorous parking attendant. However, Pepper is later abducted by the real killer, the nephew of a pair of nurses at the hospital, who kills as a way of getting back at his mother who abandoned him as a child.
Director: Barry Shear
Writer: N/A
6.9/1056 votesLoading...#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.
Director: Leonard Horn, Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
6.9/1065 votesLoading...#19 - 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.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
6.9/1049 votesLoading...#20 - 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.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1040 votesLoading...
#21 - Silence
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/16/1975
When a woman goes missing, her mute sister tries to find her, accusing the missing woman's husband of foul play.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/1048 votesLoading...#22 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Moessinger
6.8/1037 votesLoading...#23 - The Trick Book (2)
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1976
When Madame DeSalle is found murdered, and the 'trick book' goes missing, Pepper Anderson and Bill Crowley are called in to investigate.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1033 votesLoading...
#24 - Brainwash
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1976
Pepper poses as an investigative news reporter to probe the private school where several teenagers have mysteriously died.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1034 votesLoading...
#25 - Bondage
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/1/1977
Pepper assumes the role of a porn queen after a hardcore porn film actress is murdered.
Director: Douglas Benton
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Police Woman
Every episode of Police Woman ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Police Woman!
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.
Genres:Action & AdventureCrimeDrama
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"Trial by Prejudice" is the best rated episode of "Police Woman". It scored 7.3/10 based on 38 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/12/1976. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Do You Still Beat Your Wife?".