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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!

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Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Police Woman Season 1 Episode 1 - The End Game
    7.3/10(131 votes)

    #1 - The End Game

    S1:E1

    Pepper and Crowley pose as bank employees to nail a particularly vicious gang of bank robbers.

    Director:Richard Benedict
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 2 - The Beautiful Die Young
    6.6/10(95 votes)

    #2 - The Beautiful Die Young

    S1:E2

    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:Unknown

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  3. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 3 - Warning: All Wives...
    6.9/10(97 votes)

    #3 - Warning: All Wives...

    S1:E3

    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:Unknown

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  4. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 4 - Seven Eleven
    6.8/10(75 votes)

    #4 - Seven Eleven

    S1:E4

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

    Director:Richard Benedict
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 5 - Anatomy of Two Rapes
    6.7/10(76 votes)

    #5 - Anatomy of Two Rapes

    S1:E5

    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.

    Directors:Richard Benedict, Barry Shear
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 6 - It's Only a Game
    6.7/10(76 votes)

    #6 - It's Only a Game

    S1:E6

    Squad veterans question whether their newest member really wants the job or is being pushed into it by his father, a retired detective.

    Directors:Leonard Horn, Barry Shear
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 7 - Fish
    6.9/10(67 votes)

    #7 - Fish

    S1:E7

    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.

    Directors:Bernard McEveety, Leonard Horn
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 8 - Flowers of Evil
    7.2/10(92 votes)

    #8 - Flowers of Evil

    S1:E8

    "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.

    Directors:Bernard McEveety, Alexander Singer
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 9 - The Stalking of Joey Marr
    7.2/10(69 votes)

    #9 - The Stalking of Joey Marr

    S1:E9

    Pepper must transfer the son of a murdered gang chief from Mexico to testify against a killer.

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 10 - Requiem for Bored Wives
    7.2/10(67 votes)

    #10 - Requiem for Bored Wives

    S1:E10

    Bob Crane plays a freewheeling disc jockey who finds his wife murdered in her bed.

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 11 - Smack
    7.0/10(76 votes)

    #11 - Smack

    S1:E11

    Pepper goes undercover as a high school teacher to hunt down a group of drug pushers.

    Director:John Newland
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 12 - The Cradle Robbers
    6.8/10(64 votes)

    #12 - The Cradle Robbers

    S1:E12

    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.

    Directors:John Newland, Richard Benedict
    Writer:Larry Brody

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  13. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 13 - Shoefly
    6.7/10(52 votes)

    #13 - Shoefly

    S1:E13

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 14 - Target Black
    6.5/10(73 votes)

    #14 - Target Black

    S1:E14

    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:Unknown

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  15. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 15 - Sidewinder
    6.5/10(56 votes)

    #15 - Sidewinder

    S1:E15

    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:Unknown

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  16. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 16 - Blast
    7.0/10(60 votes)

    #16 - Blast

    S1:E16

    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:Unknown

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  17. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 17 - No Place to Hide
    7.1/10(67 votes)

    #17 - No Place to Hide

    S1:E17

    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:Unknown

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  18. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 18 - Nothing Left to Lose
    7.4/10(71 votes)

    #18 - Nothing Left to Lose

    S1:E18

    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.

    Directors:Leonard Horn, Alexander Singer
    Writer:Douglas Benton

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  19. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 19 - The Company
    6.7/10(52 votes)

    #19 - The Company

    S1:E19

    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

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  20. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 20 - Ice
    6.8/10(55 votes)

    #20 - Ice

    S1:E20

    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:Unknown
    Writer:David Moessinger

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  21. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 21 - Bloody Nose
    7.1/10(44 votes)

    #21 - Bloody Nose

    S1:E21

    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

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  22. Police Woman Season 1 Episode 22 - The Loner
    6.5/10(46 votes)

    #22 - The Loner

    S1:E22

    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.

    Directors:John Newland, Leonard Horn
    Writer:Burton Armus

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The End Game" is the best rated episode of "Police Woman" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 131 votes. Directed by Richard Benedict and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/13/1974. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "The Beautiful Die Young".