Episode

Police Woman: The Cradle Robbers

Name: Police Woman: The Cradle Robbers
Released: 1974-12-13
Duration: 60 min
Cast: Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman, Charles Dierkop, Ed Bernard, Susan Gailey

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Overview

A search for a missing granddaughter of Sergeant Crowley's old friend leads Pepper to an adoption racket in which children are bought and sold.

Details

Series: Police Woman
Season: Season 1
Episode: Episode 12
Air date: 1974-12-13
Runtime: 60 min

Episode context

The Cradle Robbers is Episode 12 in Season 1 of Police Woman. It aired on 1974-12-13. The runtime is 60 min.

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Episode 11: Smack 1974-12-06 | 60 min Pepper goes undercover as a high school teacher to hunt down a group of drug pushers.

Episode 13: Shoefly 1974-12-20 | 60 min Internal Affairs gives Pepper and Crowley 72 hours to find the cop who switched barrels on a murder weapon before the accused killer got to court.

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Episode 15: Sidewinder 1975-01-17 | 60 min Four Korean War vets armed with M-16s and a bazooka prepare to pull off Operation: Sidewinder, a heist of an armored car carrying a multi-million dollar payload. One of the men's penchant for prostitutes puts Pepper in the action undercover.

Episode 8: Flowers of Evil 1974-11-08 | 60 min "Flowers of Evil" is a 1974 episode of the American police procedural television series Police Woman. The episode features Sgt. Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson going undercover at a nursing home to investigate a murder. She uncovers a trio of lesbians who are robbing and murdering their elderly residents. The episode, the 8th of the first season, originally aired on November 8, 1974. Gay and lesbian organizations protested "Flowers of Evil", which producers said was based on a real case, for its portrayal of the killers as lesbians and for the stereotypical presentation of lesbianism. The episode aired a month after a similarly controversial episode of Marcus Welby, M.D. on ABC garnered national protests. Mindful of that recent controversy, NBC delayed the episode and ordered some changes but they were not enough to allay gay and lesbian concern over network television's negative portrayal of homosexuality. After negotiations, NBC agreed not to rerun the episode.

Episode 16: Blast 1975-01-24 | 60 min The deaths of a prominent politician and a nightclub dancer in a car explosion send Pepper to work as a go-go dancer for the club's owner, a one-time poor boy with a powerful yen for the finer things in life.

Episode 7: Fish 1974-11-01 | 60 min Pepper goes undercover in a woman's prison to gain the confidence of a fellow prisoner who has information that could put away a mobster.

Episode 17: No Place to Hide 1975-01-31 | 60 min A clue is found linking a series of seemingly random murders: Each victim had testified against the mob and was now enjoying a new life in the Witness Protection Program. Pepper goes undercover as a secretary to uncover the leaker.

Episode 6: It's Only a Game 1974-10-25 | 60 min Squad veterans question whether their newest member really wants the job or is being pushed into it by his father, a retired detective.

Episode 18: Nothing Left to Lose 1975-02-14 | 60 min Larue Collins a police informer is pursued relentlessly by the mob. The song 'Me and Bobby McGee' is the theme used for this episode, which most describe as the best Police Woman episode.