Police Woman
Do You Still Beat Your Wife?
TV Flash files “Do You Still Beat Your Wife?” as a desk essential hour — Police Woman (1974–1978) on NBC, season 4, episode 1, aired 1977-10-25, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E01: listed hour 71 of 92 in the Police Woman guide, first listed hour of season 4. It aired 1977-10-25 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Deadline: Death” (S03E24). Next is “Guns” (S04E02).
Essential hour: “Do You Still Beat Your Wife?”. Do You Still Beat Your Wife? is the issue title as a season open. Undercover glamour meeting a question the series would not bury: Dickinson still holding the case and the gaze.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Pepper and Crowley hunt an abusive husband.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Do You Still Beat Your Wife? sit in the Police Woman guide?
S04E01 is listed hour 71 of 92 — first listed hour of season 4, season 4 episode 1.
When did Police Woman S04E01 air?
Do You Still Beat Your Wife? aired 1977-10-25 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I need Police Story first?
Optional. The series grew from a Police Story episode, then Dickinson's Pepper is the NBC hour. The parent anthology is context, not a gate.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Angie Dickinson's Pepper Anderson goes undercover in wigs, glamour, and a badge networks had mostly reserved for men. First lasting female-led police drama, plus the 1970s argument about whether the camera was empowering or just leering. Dickinson holds the case and the gaze at once.
So about the group chat that cannot decide if Pepper Anderson is empowerment or a leer: Sgt. Suzanne Pepper Anderson goes undercover for the LAPD's criminal conspiracy unit in wigs, glamour, and a badge networks had mostly reserved for men. (I said spoiler-free. The gaze debate is extra-textual weather that never left the reruns. The hour is still a case.) NBC's Police Woman (1974–1978), from Robert L. Collins, grew from a Police Story episode and ran four seasons, 92 hours, with Angie Dickinson as the face of…
Filed against
- Angie Dickinson as Sgt. Suzanne 'Pepper' Anderson
Angie Dickinson’s Sgt. Suzanne “Pepper” Anderson went undercover in wigs, glamour, and a badge networks had mostly reserved for men — Police Woman as the first lasting female-led police drama, plus the 1970s argument about whether the…
- Earl Holliman as Lt. Bill Crowley
Earl Holliman partnered Angie Dickinson as Lt. Bill Crowley on Police Woman — the 1970s badge that had mostly been reserved for men, now sharing the undercover wigs and the gaze. First lasting female-led police drama needed a lieutenant…
- Charles Dierkop as Det. Pete Royster
Charles Dierkop played Det. Pete Royster on Police Woman — Angie Dickinson's Pepper Anderson undercover in wigs, glamour, and a badge networks had mostly reserved for men. First lasting female-led police drama, plus the 1970s argument…
- Ed Bernard as Det. Joe Styles
Ed Bernard worked the squad as Det. Joe Styles on Police Woman — Angie Dickinson's undercover hour, 1970s glamour-badge politics, and ensemble muscle that made Pepper's cases look like a precinct. TV Flash files him as catalog cop-shop…