Decoy 1957

1957 · Jerome Coopersmith

Decoy (also titled Policewoman Decoy ) [1] is an American crime drama television series created for syndication and initially broadcast from October 14, 1957, to July 7, 1958, with 39 black-and-white 30-minute episodes. The series was the first American police series with a female protagonist. [2] Many Decoy episodes are in the public domain . [3] Synopsis [ edit ] The series featured Beverly Garland as Patricia "Casey" Jones, a female undercover police officer in New York City. [4] The undercover nature of Jones's work had her impersonating women in a variety of roles, including gangster's molls , prostitutes, nurses, and singers. [1] Jones did not have a partner for her police work, and episodes revealed little about her personal life, with occasional exceptions of references to a love affair with a police officer who died on duty. [5]