Police Woman

The specific film in that, I should say, was Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which I believe was written by film critic Roger Ebert.

Conn would direct occasionally, including a Leave It to Beaver episode, but he would be a supervising editor on shows like The Danny Thomas Show, December Bride, Eve Arden Show, and he was chief editor on many, many other shows, Beverly Hillbillies, Police Woman, The Fall Guy, and a lot more shows that you know very well.

Like many of our recent interviewees, 2012 seems to be a very bad year for them, as most of them died in 2012 for some reason, so far at least.

And Dan Conn is no exception, passing away of natural causes on November 21st, 2012.

This TV continuation, however, did have Shirley Jones playing Aunt Polly, so that's fun because he made a guest appearance on one episode of the Shirley Jones TV show, Shirley.

He is also in Alice, Soap, Police Woman, The Love Boat, Maude, Phyllis, the Mary Tyler Moore spinoff with Cloris Leachman, but he played a different character that very same year on the actual Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Two episodes of The Bob Newhart Show as different characters.

Night Court, Saved by the Bell, Father Dowling Mysteries.

Happy birthday to T-Pain.

Happy birthday to Angie Dickinson, Police Woman.

Remember she? Ooh, that was a cold piece there.

Mm-hmm.

And there she is to tell us all about the magnificent news that's out there with everybody.

Angie Dickinson was probably best known for Police Woman.

Police Woman.

What was the

name

of that cop show? Police Woman.

It was too basic to even remember.

She also did Dressed to Kill, which was like a super sexy thriller.

I am in full Angie Dickinson mode.

Earl Holliman, who is her co-star in Police Woman.

And what she said and what Earl Holliman both said is that they received a bunch of mail.

There was a lot of conversation in the early 70s about the impact that women were seeing Police Woman and Pepper Anderson and they were entering law enforcement.

And then that was again translated in the late 70s with Lucy Bates, and Joyce Davenport from Hill Street Blues.

So these two characters, really the only two regular women characters from Hill Street Blues, one as a uniform-wearing cop and one as a public defender, there was all sorts of uptick.

I don't even remember what I did.

Well, since you do remember Police Woman, and I love Angie Dickinson.

I mean, who doesn't? What was it like working on Police Woman?

Well, how I got the part was really fun because the director, name slips my mind now, but He did Rebel Without a Cause, and he was the guy that went over the cliff in the car.

And I'm embarrassed because I should know his name.