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Specials (1974) Pilot episode, called Police Story: The Gamble. Sergeant Lisa Beaumont (Angie Dickinson) works undercover to expose, & to bust illegal gambling houses. The pilot for this show aired on an episode of "Police Story" (1973) entitled "The Gamble".
Ratings seemed to rise when Angie swopped her uniform for mini-skirts and fishnets. How did it begin? It was a spin-off of established US series Police Story. In the pilot, Angie Dickinson was cop Lisa Beaumont but for the series she became Suzanne “Pepper” Anderson. Why Pepper? Was she allergic to salt?
The Police Story episode entitled "The Gamble", which serves as a pilot for Police Woman, gives Dickinson's character's name as "Lisa Beaumont", although her character in "The Gamble" is a new officer, whereas on "Police Woman" she is a seasoned detective sergeant.
However, Angie Dickinson's character's name in that episode was Lisa Beaumont and Bert Convy played the role of her commanding officer. Convy was later replaced by Earl Holliman. Read More
The pilot for Police Woman aired as an episode of Police Story titled ‘The Gamble’, in which Angie Dickinson appeared as an officer named Lisa Beaumont. The series debuted on NBC on Friday 13 September 1974.
Police Woman is a Cop Show that ran for four seasons (1974–78) on NBC, starring Angie Dickinson as Sgt. Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson, a vice detective with the LAPD. It was one of the first drama series on American network TV with a female lead, and the first case of a woman police officer playing the same part as her male colleagues.
Police Woman first aired on US television on 26th March, 1974, as 'The Gamble', an episode of Joseph Wambaugh's anthology series Police Story, starring Angie Dickinson as policewoman Lisa Beaumont.
