Police Story (TV series)

Police Story is an American crime/drama-anthology series, which aired on NBC from 1973 to 1978. The show was created by writer and former police officer Joseph Wambaugh, and meant a big break in the extent to which police work and realistic violence was shown in tv series. The series was produced by David Gerber and Mel Swope.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == As with all anthology series the series has no set story line, but each episode contains a free-standing story with other characters. The only thing the episodes have in common is that in each story focuses on a police officer, that the stories are all playing in Los Angeles, and that the main character always works for the same branch of the police. There are also a number of characters who come back several times in the series. So is actor Scott Brady in over 12 episodes shows up as "Vinnie," a former agent who now runs a bar catering. Tony Lo Bianco and Don Meredith have a role in the series several times as partners of the Department raided. ==Background[ Edit] == The design of the series gave producers the opportunity to try out different characters and situations, and so to see which direction the series could go the best on.
 * 2 Background
 * 3 guest roles
 * 4 awards and nominations
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The series led to three spin-off series:

As the series progressed were the episodes more often extended to television films, which were every few weeks instead of weekly broadcast.
 * The episode "The Gamble" from season 1 revolved around a female COP played by Angie Dickinson. This episode proved so popular that NBC decided to make this character a series around: Police Woman .
 * The episode "The Return of Joe Forrester" from season 2 served as the basis for the series Joe Forrester.
 * The episode "A Chance to Live" from season five served as the basis for David Cassidy: Man Under Cover .

Police Story can be seen as a forerunner of series such as Hill Street Blues, ABC's NYPD Blue and Homicide: Life on the Street . ==Guest Roles[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Some well-known actors who also played a role in the series were Ed Asner, David Janssen, Claude Akins, Robert Stack, Mike Connors, Stuart Whitman, John Saxon, Cameron Mitchell, Martin Milner, Vince Edwards,Robert Forster, Jan-Michael Vincent, Alex Cord, George Maharis, Wayne Maunder, Howard Duff, and Chad Everett. ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="357" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="675" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Two episodes of the series won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America: "Requiem for an Informer," written by Sy Salkowitz, and "Requiem for C.Z. Smith," written by Robert e. Collins.

<p lang="en" len="222" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1976 the series won a Emmy Award for outstanding drama series.