One of my all-time favourite episodes of Police Woman.
Aside from featuring a terrific supporting cast, which includes terrific character actors, Val Bisoglio, Ned Glass, Florence Halop, there's the legendary Michaep Parks(who's bestmugging for the camera is in the last 10 minutes. He's absolutely bonkers.
In yet another episode where Bill Crowley and Peppper go undercover, this time, Pepper's character's a lush, and if she's pretending to be sloshed, then Ms Dickinson should've won the Emmy that season for this performance.
It's one thing to 'act' a certain way, but, there's things which one can only do if they actually are in a certain way,and Ms Dickinson's knocking back margaritas, and her eyes are rolling, her speech is not simply slurred, she keeps calling the husband of the couple who they're supposed to contact, who's name is Del, 'Dale'.
She says, 'How's Roy'. 'It's Del, oh, I'm abig fan of yours, Dale.... very funny.
The highlight of Pepper's drunk performance is her dance; 10 seconds of funny, ,jerking, and smirking.
I've always been a huge fan of Ms Dickinson, and I loved watching Police Woman, years ago..
If you've ever seen the terrific film, Point Blank (later remade with Mel Gibson as Payback), which stars Lee Marvin, and co-stars' Ms Dickinson, there's tha classic slow-burn scene at the mobster's house, where Lee takes her. It's a gorgeous house, and she thinks he's actually invited to be there by the property's owner,but when he tells her that, 'no', they're not invited, and, the reason he's there is to kill him when (ever) he returns, Angie goes NUTS, first hittinge, then punching, slapping, as her full fury comes out, as she realises there's a. Very good possibility tnis... 'romamtic tryst', is in fact a hit, in which she's likely to be killed.
This drunken 'tour de farce' is the fun flipside of Ms Dickinson at her funniest.