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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 120284" data-attributes="member: 57984">The show was well-produced by the standards of the time in Season 1, POLICE WOMAN, and Angie was allowed to actually act it in the beginning, although her performance was of the charismatic diva style --- initially. She got a Golden Globe for the first season (she later said she was surprised to win because she knew the show &quot;wasn&#039;t that well written&quot;) and it even hit #1 for the week in the ratings a couple of times that first year, doing the same in other countries.But shortly into the second season, due in part to feminists&#039; complaints that Angie&#039;s character was too sexy and &quot;constantly playing at whoredom&quot; and therefore &quot;degrading to real police women&quot; (although the show actually created a significant uptick in female cops) the network pressured the show to tone down every aspect of Angie&#039;s demeanor, including how she walked, talked and spoke around the squad room, all of which left Angie in a kind of neurotic No Woman&#039;s Land about how to play a scene. Now robbed of its star&#039;s full star quality, the show began to kind of slide, Angie incessantly suppressed at every corner from mid-S2 onward... Also, a simultaneous bad timeslot change to Tuesdays against MASH didn&#039;t help the ratings. And then they kept moving it, which caused an increase in the speed of the show&#039;s tumble.No, the private eye program HONEY WEST (which I mention on the first and second page of this thread and of which I even posted a picture) didn&#039;t really influence much of anything because it was cancelled after its first year in 1965. The first attempt at a female cop show was Beverly Garland&#039;s DECOY in 1957, but it also didn&#039;t make it, likely because it was syndicated. (Both became cult shows because they were the first to try).Emma Peel, played by Diana Rigg in THE AVENGERS circa 1964, is generally regarded as television&#039;s first fully liberated woman. But she was part of a team, and preceded and followed by other competent lovelies. Same with Barbara Bain in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE.So POLICE WOMAN in 1974 was the first successful female cop show, and in fact the first successful primetime America drama series to feature a woman in the title role.I loved the first season; I banged my head against the wall repeatedly during S2 thru S4, even to my being relieved once they&#039;d cancelled it.<img src="https://c8.alamy.com/comp/C3CA4C/angie-dickinson-earl-holliman-police-woman-1974-C3CA4C.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 120284, member: 57984"] The show was well-produced by the standards of the time in Season 1, POLICE WOMAN, and Angie was allowed to actually act it in the beginning, although her performance was of the charismatic diva style --- initially. She got a Golden Globe for the first season (she later said she was surprised to win because she knew the show "wasn't that well written") and it even hit #1 for the week in the ratings a couple of times that first year, doing the same in other countries. But shortly into the second season, due in part to feminists' complaints that Angie's character was too sexy and "constantly playing at whoredom" and therefore "degrading to real police women" (although the show actually created a significant uptick in female cops) the network pressured the show to tone down every aspect of Angie's demeanor, including how she walked, talked and spoke around the squad room, all of which left Angie in a kind of neurotic No Woman's Land about how to play a scene. Now robbed of its star's full star quality, the show began to kind of slide, Angie incessantly suppressed at every corner from mid-S2 onward... Also, a simultaneous bad timeslot change to Tuesdays against MASH didn't help the ratings. And then they kept moving it, which caused an increase in the speed of the show's tumble. No, the private eye program HONEY WEST (which I mention on the first and second page of this thread and of which I even [B]posted[/B] [B]a[/B] [B]picture[/B]) didn't really influence much of anything because it was cancelled after its first year in 1965. The first attempt at a female cop show was Beverly Garland's DECOY in 1957, but it also didn't make it, likely because it was syndicated. (Both became cult shows because they were the first to try). Emma Peel, played by Diana Rigg in THE AVENGERS circa 1964, is generally regarded as television's first fully liberated woman. But she was part of a team, and preceded and followed by other competent lovelies. Same with Barbara Bain in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE. So POLICE WOMAN in 1974 was the first [I][B]successful[/B][/I] female cop show, and in fact the first [I]successful[/I] primetime America drama series to feature a woman in the title role. I loved the first season; I banged my head against the wall repeatedly during S2 thru S4, even to my being relieved once they'd cancelled it. [IMG]https://c8.alamy.com/comp/C3CA4C/angie-dickinson-earl-holliman-police-woman-1974-C3CA4C.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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