Thursday Movie Picks, August 31, 2023: Female Investigators (TV edition)

This being Thursday, it's time for another edition of Thursday Movie Picks, the blogathon run by Wandering Through the Shelves. This being the last Thursday of the month, it's time for another TV-themed edition of the blogathon. And in keeping with the theme from three weeks ago, it's about women in the workplace, specifically women investigators. I could easily think of a couple of shows, but some of them I had already used, so in the end I wound up going with three shows that I've never really seen:

Police Woman (1974-1978). Angie Dickinson. Enough said. OK, maybe not enough said; I get the impression that this was considered tough back when it was made, but I have a feeling I'd have a different view of it watching from today.

Rizzoli and Isles (2010-2016). Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander play the title characters respectively, a Boston police detective and medical examiner investigating a series of cases that are copycats of a notorious serial killer, or would-be serial killer. This one kept showing up on one or another of the digital sub-channels that I'd turn on when making dinner for Dad before we moved out of the old place and moved to streaming TV.

Get Christie Love! (1974-1975). A few months back I was looking through the streaming channel guides, and saw what looked like an interesting blaxploitation movie called Get Christie Love!. It seemed surprisingly tame and the film quality looked off (and panned-and-scanned), and it was only on doing a bit of research that I discovered I was watching a TV movie that was more or less a pilot. Teresa Graves plays the titular character police detective. The reason the movie and show seem so tame is that star Teresa Graves found God around that time, eventually leaving acting all together, and wanted storylines that wouldn't be considered so offensive.