Police Woman was an NBC police procedural television series created by Robert L. Collins and starred Angie Dickinson and Earl Holliman from 1974 to 1978. It was the first hour-long television drama starring a woman, although Beverly Garland's one-season 1957 syndicated series, Decoy, was the first American television show to focus on a female police officer.
Though not ground-breaking or unique, the theme by Mort Stevens was not entirely original, either. After writing the theme, he called his good friend and fellow composer, Jerry Goldsmith, and told him he copied his main theme from the Derek Flint secret agent spoofs starring James Coburn. The melody for the two themes is exact but Morton's orchestration turned it "inside out." Goldsmith gave his blessing and both had a good laugh. Morton's signature theme for "Hawaii Five-O" became a huge chart hit, unlike Police Woman.
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