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Decoy (also titled Policewoman Decoy) [1] is an American crime drama television series created for syndication and initially broadcast from October 14, 1957, to July 7, 1958, with 39 black-and-white 30-minute episodes. The series was the first American police series with a female protagonist. [2] Many Decoy episodes are in the public domain. [3]
Get Christie Love, starring Teresa Graves, the pilot for which preceded Police Woman by about two months, the pilot for Police Woman airing in March 1974 as an episode of Police Story entitled "The Gamble". The syndicated 1957 series Decoy, starring Beverly Garland, was the first series, a 30-minute drama, to focus on a female police officer.
Beverly Lucy Garland (née Fessenden; October 17, 1926 – December 5, 2008) was an American actress.Her work in feature films primarily consisted of small parts in a few major productions or leads in low-budget action and science-fiction movies; however, she had prominent recurring roles on several popular television series.
Pepper goes undercover as a nurse-on-the-run to gain employment at an old folks' home where the female patients are being murdered for their checks by a trio of homicidal lesbians.
WPC 56 is a British television police procedural series, created and partly written by Dominique Moloney and broadcast on BBC One.The stories feature the first woman police constables (WPC) to join the fictional Midlands Constabulary at Brinford Police Station in 1956.
Decoy: Police Woman was the first television show to feature a female police officer, and in fact the first built around a female protagonist. [135] 1959 Arlene Pieper became the first woman to officially finish a marathon in the United States when she finished the Pikes Peak Marathon in Manitou Springs, Colorado, in 1959. [136] [137]
Decoy: Mrs. Noonan: uncredited 1946: Cross My Heart: Miss Stewart: uncredited 1946: The Show-Off: Woman: scenes deleted 1947: Blondie's Holiday: Cynthia Thompson (Class of '32) 1947: Fun on a Weekend: Customer in Clothing Shop: uncredited 1947: Second Chance: Policewoman: uncredited 1947: Roses Are Red: Jill's Landlady: uncredited 1947: Heading ...
Jackie Malton (born 1951 [1]) is a UK television script consultant and former senior police officer best known for being the inspiration for the character of DCI Jane Tennison in the Prime Suspect drama written by Lynda La Plante.