Episode
Police Woman: Sidewinder
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Police Woman
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 1975-01-17
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Sidewinder is Episode 15 in Season 1 of Police Woman. It aired on 1975-01-17. The runtime is 60 min.
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Pepper serves as bodyguard for a visiting campus speaker who, being black and Marxist, is a magnet for threats from hate groups.
Episode 16: Blast
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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 13: Shoefly
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.
Episode 17: No Place to Hide
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 12: The Cradle Robbers
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.
Episode 18: Nothing Left to Lose
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.
Episode 11: Smack
Pepper goes undercover as a high school teacher to hunt down a group of drug pushers.
Episode 19: The Company
Three gangland killings signal that someone is taking over established vice activities. A gambling operator is feeling the heat, and Pepper is there to help.
Episode 10: Requiem for Bored Wives
Bob Crane plays a freewheeling disc jockey who finds his wife murdered in her bed.
Episode 20: Ice
Posing as a couple of jewel fences, Pepper and Crowley travel to Masiaca, Mexico as part of a complex plan to nab a gang of diamond thieves.
Episode 9: The Stalking of Joey Marr
Pepper must transfer the son of a murdered gang chief from Mexico to testify against a killer.
Episode 21: Bloody Nose
While working undercover as a waitress in a seedy roadside diner connected to a series of truckload heists, Pepper finds herself entangled in the ugly spousal abuse dispute between a young married couple in her apartment complex.