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Tessa Vance is a young female homicide detective in two books by Australian Jennifer Rowe; played by Lucy Bell in Australian TV series Murder Call 1997–2000. Emma Victor is a lesbian San Francisco PI in series by Mary Wings , begun 1986.
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]
Cagney & Lacey is an American police procedural drama television series that aired on the CBS television network for seven seasons from March 25, 1982, to May 16, 1988. The show is about two New York City police detectives who lead very different lives: Christine Cagney (Sharon Gless) is a career-minded single woman, while Mary Beth Lacey is a married working mother.
Dramas involving police procedural work, and private detectives, secret agents, and the justice system have been a mainstay of broadcast television since the early days of broadcasting. Shows that are not dramatic programming are indicated (e.g. reality television, comedy or comedy drama).
Upcoming crime drama series "Las Azules" ("Women in Blue") is rooted in the past but echoes current events, its makers say. Set in 1971, the Spanish-language show is inspired by the true story of ...
Rosey Hooper (née Fabrice) (Fola Evans-Akingbola, Prisca Bakare): (Series 5 & Series 10, various episodes) Love interest of officer JP Hooper after he recognised her from school (she was in the year above him) and was a suspect in a murder at a charity fashion show. She recognised JP at the end and they had a drink together at Catherine's Bar.
The syndicated 1957 series Decoy, starring Beverly Garland, was the first series, a 30-minute drama, to focus on a female police officer. Dickinson received three Emmy nominations [9] and won a Golden Globe award for the show. By the last season, Dickinson tired of appearing in scenes "where the phone rings while I'm taking a bath.
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.