7.2/10115 votes#1 - 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
6.5/1086 votes#2 - The Beautiful Die Young
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1974
Pepper and Crowley investigate a modeling school that takes advantage of young runaways girls, turning them into white slaves in Japan, or making them participate in pornographic movies.
Director: Barry Shear
Writer: N/A
6.9/1086 votes#3 - 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
6.7/1065 votes#4 - 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.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: N/A
6.5/1063 votes#5 - Anatomy of Two Rapes
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1974
In this episode two rapes are investigated. The first victim is a woman who is raped the day before her daughter is supposed to get married. The second victim is an alcoholic who was raped and murdered and her body dumped in a vacant lot. It is later revealed that the first victim made up the story in order to stop the wedding. The second rape is solved when a teenager who was teased by the victim admits to killing her.
Director: Barry Shear, Richard Benedict
Writer: N/A
6.5/1064 votes#6 - 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.
Director: Barry Shear, Leonard Horn
Writer: N/A
6.9/1056 votes#7 - 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
7.1/1078 votes#8 - 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 votes#9 - 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
7.0/1053 votes#10 - 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
6.9/1065 votes#11 - 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
6.6/1053 votes#12 - 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.
Director: Richard Benedict, John Newland
Writer: Larry Brody
6.4/1040 votes#13 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.2/1060 votes#14 - 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.
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: N/A
6.0/1043 votes#15 - 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.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
6.9/1049 votes#16 - 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
7.0/1054 votes#17 - 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
7.2/1057 votes#18 - 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
6.6/1042 votes#19 - 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.
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: Douglas Benton
6.8/1048 votes#20 - 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
7.0/1034 votes#21 - 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
6.2/1035 votes#22 - 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's after his client.
Director: Leonard Horn, John Newland
Writer: Burton Armus
The Best Episodes of Police Woman Season 1
Every episode of Police Woman Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Police Woman Season 1!
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
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The End Game" is the best rated episode of "Police Woman" season 1. It scored 7.2/10 based on 115 votes. Directed by Richard Benedict and written by N/A, it aired on 9/13/1974. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "The Beautiful Die Young".