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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 83676" data-attributes="member: 57984">The Stalking of Joey Marr.  Sergeant Crowley goes to Mexico to convince Joey Marr (Monte Markham) to travel to the States in order to testify about the criminal activities of his dead father's organization. He reluctantly agrees, and eventually meets Pepper and Royster at a San Diego airport with the intention of driving up the coast where he'll eventually turn state's evidence.But it becomes obvious immediately that syndicate goons have no intention of letting Joey get anywhere near a courthouse. Royster's car is blown up, Styles is run off the road, Pepper has to don a platinum wig to hitch a ride with a charter bus driver, and then she comes to the belated realization that this witness she's protecting is just a lookalike cop, Carl Rossi, assigned to be a decoy while the real Joey Marr is whisked under cover of darkness to Washington."They're not going to kill Joey Marr," Sergeant Anderson surmises, "they're just going to kill two dumb cops!"<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWjoeymarr1_zps283op0bc.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 814px" />Well, one anyway. While Pepper in her traveling wig gets off the bus and goes for ice cream, Joey's double, Carl, is iced by a hitman. Pepper reboards and screams at Carl's corpse.All eyes are out for the hitmen, and Pepper and Crowley corner them at an airport as they attempt their escape. Crowley gets in a round or two while Pepper struggles with the revolver in her purse.<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWjoeymarr2_zpsdxt6b9fm.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 760px" />A teary-eyed Pepper, well into her pattern of becoming emotionally involved with the crooks and semi-crooks she's investigating or protecting, demands which of the injured hit men pulled the trigger on her fellow cop, Carl Rossi. Crowley is afraid she's gonna crack and start firing, but, as per usual, she doesn't.George Romanis' funky score, here and in "Fish", is tracked throughout the entire series -- especially that "doo-daa-doo-DAA-doo" which was repeated endlessly for four years.Aaron Spelling apparently really liked Angie Dickinson and her show, so he starts borrowing from it. Including this script which he appropriated for an episode of STARSKY & HUTCH 10 months later.----------"Requiem for Bored Wives."  Undressing after a long day on the job, Pepper turns on the radio for some jazz before the cocky disc jockey (Bob Crane) comes on and starts making cracks about women in law enforcement, taunting any female cops to call in to the station, an irritable Pepper baited into making that call, the radio jock unable to resist making fun of her Beatlemaniacal name, "Sergeant Pepper."The next morning, Pepper's AM/FM tantrum is the talk of the police department, and she attempts to rebuff Crane's phone invitation to lunch "at Fuquee's" (she gasps to Crowley, but the french name sounds dirty). The DJ agrees to apologize for the previous night's public conversation, so Pepper takes that lunch, promising that she's "not really that obnoxious" most of the time.<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWboredwives1_zpsfj1g1rkp.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 779px" />After arguing with his histrionic wife about money, the DJ later returns home and finds her dead on their bed, shot through the temple.Is it suicide? Murder?Pepper and Crowley take the case, convey their suspicions to the widower disc jockey, and the DJ comes up with a piece of paper from his dead wife's purse with a number scrawled across it. It turns out that his deceased wife was having an affair with a marina playboy (WL LeGault) who then started blackmailing her with pictures of their foul passions, a scheme he'd pulled on numerous women.<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWboredwives2_zpso9nop6s7.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 777px" /><img src="http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m127/tubesteak69/PW_requiem_boat.jpg~original" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 773px" />So Pepper hops a speed boat, zips around the bay, and has engine failure conveniently at the gigolo's pier. They become chummy very quickly, as Sergeant Anderson tries to simultaneously flirt yet slip out of his grasps so as to not compromise her professional virtue in case he tries to dock her.But not all is what it seems. Sergeant Pepper and Colonel Hogan have one final drink, when she reveals that the gigolo-extortionist's phone number was changed a couple of days after the DJ's wife was murdered -- which means Crane got the number by dialing 411 "information." The DJ confesses that he and his wife fought over her affairs, saw the photos where "they did everything," the gun went off accidentally and struck her, and now he's pulling one on Pepper, too (who seems a little too surprised by this maneuver) and forces her out of the marina bar, onto a boat, and is chased across the bay with Pepper jumping overboard to safety just as Crane careens into a sand bar and explodes in a nautical conflagration of death.Given how, and why, Bob Crane was murdered four years later, the plot's a tad creepy.---------"Smack."   A goofy teen aged boy falls from a high school stadium, and it's assumed to be a drug-related murder. But Pepper is already undercover as a physical education teacher, trying to sniff out the source of the extracurricular narcotics that have been plaguing the student body.<img src="http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m127/tubesteak69/PW_smack_exercise.jpg~original" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 774px" /><img src="http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m127/tubesteak69/PWsmack_fence.jpg~original" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 775px" />She warms to a fellow teacher, Mark Ciprio (William Shatner) whose very name is a prescription drug, a guilt-ridden chemist whom Crowley suspects is pushing heroin in some way, even though Pepper opines, "...he doesn't seem the type."<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWsmack1_zpsjuk7mvoq.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 775px" />Pepper charmingly enlists the help of an adorable young police rookie (Brenda Sykes) enthusiastic about her first undercover assignment at the high school, but it all goes horribly wrong when her cover is blown and the real pusher (Robert Sampson) beats the hell out of her -- which may have as much to do with the title of the episode as slang drug references. We just don't know. But Shatner admits to processing the drugs to pay for his wife's dialysis.Vengeful about the death of his friend, the school's equipment manager (Smokey Robinson -- yes, Smokey!) corners the pusher somewhere in the bowels of the stadium before the police can get there. Pepper & Crowley talk Smokey out of blasting the bastard, and they go back to the station where the pusher's on-campus seller (Barry Livingston of MY THREE SONS) confesses to needing the profits to pay for his student council campaign, a skill he learned from his dear old dad, a successful local politician. Styles, who interrogates the boy, passes up the opportunity to ask him just how much some Sharpies and a stack of poster-board would be expected to cut into a 16 year old's allowance.<img src="http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m127/tubesteak69/PWSmack_boiler.jpg~original" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 777px" />Pepper and Crowley walk down the hall and she says something about the good guys having to work harder than the bad guys.The snappily portentious original score by Richard Shores seems a bit laughably powerful for an episode with a high school setting, but it's perfect for the series overall, and the score will be heavily tracked (along with Shores' composition for "Target Black" coming up) for the remainder of the first season.------------The Cradle Robbers. Arlene Golonka is an evil child buyer and seller, and Cliff Emmich is her chubby enforcer. And after a desperate mother (Sharon Farrell) sells her baby and then demands him back, the top man in this ghastly business (John Vernon) sees that she's done in.<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWrobbers2_zpsejprzgxo.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 782px" />Pepper investigates when an old pal of Crowley's goes looking for the missing grandchild his wayward daughter bore.Perfectly acceptable entry. But is Renee Valente responsible for casting such ugly, untalented toddlers??------------Shoefly. The beating of a rock singer outside the nightclub of shifty Lou Gerard (Rory Calhoun) becomes increasingly suspicious when the detective (Ed Nelson) who'd done the beating  turns out to be the father of the girl who previously dated the lounge act -- and that girl (Annette O'Toole) was once impregnated by him.The incident is removed from the official police record, just as a gun barrel used to dust  Gerard's enemy is changed en route to court... Just what's the cop been doing for this mobster? And where's that baby?Uh oh.<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWshoefly_zps4hewexnb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 778px" />We get to hear ballads by Bacharach and Bread belted out. Which is nice._______________-A mid-Season 1 review of POLICE WOMAN from TV GUIDE:<img src="http://www.chezgrae.com/tvguide/policewomanreview.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 783px" /></blockquote>

Verification: Who played JR Ewing?