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24 Episodes 1975 - 1976
Episode 1
Fri, Sep 12, 197560 mins
Pepper goes undercover to expose a club that is operating as an illegal gambling operation. Lives are put at risk by an interfering and overzealous Police Chief, played by Roddy McDowall
Episode 2
Fri, Sep 19, 197560 mins
A young woman called Lara gets mixed up with a gang of drug dealers who are making their own powerful brand of speed. After hearing reports of how the speed has caused several deaths, Lara, herself an addict, commits suicide. Pepper goes undercover as Lara's estranged sister to infiltrate the dealers.
Episode 3
Fri, Sep 26, 197560 mins
A serial murderer is killing young blonde women and leaving each of his victims clad in a bridal veil. Pepper teams up with former partner , Detective Tom Foley, to try and catch the killer.
Episode 4
Fri, Oct 3, 197560 mins
A fashion designer's business is being threatened by the Mob wanting a piece of the industry. Pepper goes undercover as a fashion consultant to investigate and expose the criminals.
Episode 5
Fri, Oct 10, 197560 mins
Ian McShane plays an insurance scammer and Ida Lupino is his partner. They fake and contrive accidents to collect the dough. Pepper "foils" a purse-snatching by getting knocked-down in a parking lot, falling in a pool and getting hit by a truck within a matter of a few seconds. In the hospital with a rag on her head, Pepper overhears the ambulance chasers pressuring the other patients on the ward. Pepper intuits a plot and once Bill finds her, they scheme to scam the scammers. Pepper charms McShane instantly into telling her all their secrets and, just as fast, a security guard quite unconvincingly blows her cover by insisting he hadn't seen her since he retired from the police force - all within earshot of Lupino. Exposed but unawares, Pepper still thinks she's undercover despite being told by an aging and suicidal lawyer in this "firm" that they're onto her. And, the revelation that she's got a badge doesn't guide them to get out of town but instead to kill her with a vat of gasoline in the trunk of a car. So when she tells the driver they're being set up for death, he just pushes her out the door onto the street and then angrily drives into oblivion. Conflagrations ensue on the highway. Pepper then goes to the apartment of the wife of the now-dead driver (one of the firm's partner/victims) and promptly gets shoved in a closet and the room is set on fire. Crowley arrives just in time, shooting the arsonist, and breaking Pepper out of the closet in the back of the smoke filled room. They meet Lupino in a darkened mall who starts shooting at them. Pepper being Pepper, she has no gun. An unconscious person on the floor literally trips Lupino and she falls, and is promptly arrested - By Crowley. Pepper and Crowley show up at a "fancy" restaurant and arrest McShane.
Episode 6
Fri, Oct 17, 197560 mins
Pepper & Crowley begin an investigation after two men are gunned down in the parking lot of their employer,
Episode 7
Fri, Oct 31, 197560 mins
Pepper needs to go undercover when she and Crowley get brought into a case that has seen a parole officer gunned down in cold blood. Suspicion falls on the officer's case load. While investigating the murder things take a strange and all the threads converge in a surprising climax
Episode 8
Tue, Nov 4, 197560 mins
Pilot Bill Klein is working as a police informant, but Sergeant Larry Byron has discovered that Klein is in fact smuggling drugs in with his plane. Pepper and her colleagues try to bust him.
Episode 9
Tue, Nov 11, 197560 mins
When Pepper stop at bank for change she walk in during a bank hold-up and is kidnapped; She remained undercover as a hooker while Pepper charms one of the robbers and his brother to survive , while the police force chases them into the desert.
Episode 10
Tue, Nov 18, 197560 mins
Pepper investigates the death of a musician, but has to tangle with a drug dependent rock star and his manipulative Manager.
Episode 11
Tue, Nov 25, 197560 mins
Crowley comes under intense scrutiny after a sting operation at a trucking firm goes horribly wrong leading to the death of an underage youth. He becomes disgruntled when he realizes the department is putting the rights of criminals ahead of his 18 years with the force.
Episode 12
Tue, Dec 2, 197560 mins
Pepper must infiltrate a trio of ruthless con artists who are duping old ladies out of their money.
Episode 13
Tue, Dec 9, 197560 mins
A hired killer wants to retire, but his powerful Mob boss, forces him to do one last dangerous hit job.
Episode 14
Tue, Dec 16, 197560 mins
An angular blonde gets off the plane at LAX and takes a cab to her brother in law, Julian's house. She's looking for her sister, Beth, missing six weeks. In his study, there's the woman's portrait, looking suspiciously like a brunette version of Pettet - they are sisters after all. Mute from a childhood growth and resulting surgery, the sister can only communicate through sign-language. Her brother-in-law's secretary, his lover, makes their relationship obvious by her unsuspecting, "Darling!", as she enters the study, and Beth's sister leaves in a huff. While in the middle of another fur-heist case Pepper gets drawn into the case of the missing Beth as she can understand sign language. When the blonde sister winds up stabbed in the shoulder in her hotel room and found by a maid, she claims her brother-in-law is responsible. In interrogation by Pepper and Crowley, the brother-in-law irks the pair by calling the sister "pathetic" and questions Crowley's authority and competence. The brother-in-law denies responsibility for the stabbing. The sister reveals letters that Beth wrote to her which seem to implicate the brother-in-law in something unwholesome. These lead the squad to find a decomposed, decapitated body buried in Northern California they think may be the sister, Beth. During an inquest, the DA verifies that Robert Webber sometimes has the opportunity to use lye in his business, the substance used to speed up the body's decomposition. Webber looks pretty guilty, until Pepper, at home with Pettet downstairs on the couch, gets a call from Crowley: the forensic lab has determined the body is that of an elderly woman. That, and a phone bill revealing a call to the Pettet's native Nova Scotia, prompts Pepper to dial it. The fussy Nova Scotian housekeeper is irritated by the late-night call and when Pepper asks for the sister, she's informed she died six months ago but that her sister, Beth, is out in California. Pepper smells a rat, and goes downstairs to find the sister off the couch doing midnight dish duty. Pepper realizes that the sister is, indeed, Beth herself, and has dyed her hair and adorned contact-lenses in order to pull the ruse. Unable to coax her to put down the loaded gun she's had stuck in Pepper's face for several minutes, Pep jumps her, they fall behind the couch; the gun goes off, and Pepper gets up - and promptly collapses. The guys get there and receive an improbable call from the airport revealing that the sister's flight out will be delayed by a few minutes. Everyone recognizes this as the unlikely plot device it is and they rush for LAX, leaving Pepper behind. There, they spot Joanna Pettet and chase her down, Crowley pulling the fake scar from her throat, thus permitting her to scream.
Episode 15
Tue, Dec 23, 197560 mins
Pepper and Crowley lead the search when a fellow officer is killed during a gang fight. Their investigation is impeded when Lt. Buckles sees an arrest in the case as a chance for his advancement.
Episode 16
Tue, Jan 6, 197660 mins
A robbery goes wrong and the situation becomes more complicated when the stolen diamonds go missing. Suspicion centers on a construction site and Pepper goes undercover as a caterer to try and discover who at the site has the diamonds.
Episode 17
Tue, Jan 20, 197660 mins
Due to a string of high end burglaries, Anderson and Crowley try an undercover sting operation by opening a pawn shop on the West side. Pepper posses as a buyer of quality antiques based out of Paris to try and lure the gang into making a mistakes.
Episode 18
Tue, Jan 27, 197660 mins
The father of a policeman's girlfriend tries to frame the officer for selling narcotics.
Episode 19
Tue, Feb 3, 197660 mins
Pepper and Crowley enlist the help of a cat burglar and a nightclub singer to take down a burglary ring preying on wealthy single women.
Episode 20
Tue, Feb 10, 197660 mins
Pepper poses as a Vegas showgirl in an attempt to get to the mobster responsible for the kidnapping of a rival gangster's grandson.
Episode 21
Tue, Feb 17, 197660 mins
Pete Royster falls in love with an extortion suspect he is assigned to guard, a troubled woman who may be the target of a killers.
Episode 22
Tue, Feb 24, 197660 mins
Pepper gets involved in a child kidnapping case when a close personal friend has his child taken. There are further questions raised over the origins of the child in the first place. People want to know - who exactly is the mother of the child to begin with
Episode 23
Tue, Mar 2, 197660 mins
Pepper falls for a charming, opera-singing colleague while training with a motorcycle task force.
Episode 24
Tue, Mar 9, 197660 mins
While her new love hovers near death, Pepper sets out to discover who brutally ran him down.