Now in the year of our Lord, 1974 there was Police Woman , a police procedural that sure packed a lot of pistols and pepper with many thanks to one Angie Dickinson who starred as the aforementioned antihero. Fast forward the television world to 1982 a new day would beckon with a seven season run with two police women in the form of Mary Beth and Chris in Cagney & Lacey. These women of the long arm of the law were proving themselves to be every bit as formidable as their Kojak, Starsky & Hutch counterparts.
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| That's your high score on FreeCell, seriously? |
The Great White North (CBC) graces our little screenverse with the Tassie Cameron and Sherry White's brainchild Pretty Hard Cases, a title that was matriculated from the original working title of Lady Dicks (thank you ever so much for the change, dearhearts) Now this is one of the most if not the most layered police-procedurals my peepers have been a'privy to. Not only is there a complex in continuum story-line concerning a local lady gunrunner and her daughter turned informant. This series is rife with paeans to a procedural era lost, the cozy capers that dial back the prime years of McMillan and Wife and if you were an aficionado of The Rockford Files you won't help but notice the incidental music may just bring you back to that fully paneled ,all mods cons trailer (yes answering machines were cutting edge then)
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| They were Pretty Hard Cases too |
There's even word play and subtle and not so subtle slapstick comedy taking course and Meredith MacNeill of Baroness Von Sketch Show fame and Orange is the New Black denizen Adrienne C Moore, impeccably casted as they are true magnet and steel as guns and gangs gumshoette Samantha Wazoski and Drug Squad detective Kelly Duff. And as a matter of point and case lets just say it is pretty hard not to be engaged with these soulful sisters of sleuthery.