This was a well-done episode. It deals with a situation that existed then and still exists today: Young teen girls, often runaways, getting into the hands of unscrupulous people who either entice them into pornography with drugs and money and the promise of stardom - or, even worse, selling them into sexual slavery. William Windom ('Ted Adrian') is appropriately sleazy here, although appearing quite respectable on the surface (and he has a lovely head of full gray hair!). Unfortunately, one of his young "finds" overdoses and dies.
Kathy Rigby has a funny bit as a police trainee who looks too *young* to go undercover!, so Kathleen Quinlan gets the assignment and does it well. This also gives Angie Dickinson ('Sgt. Pepper Anderson') a believable opportunity to go undercover as a procurer, although her cover story turns out not to be as solid as it should have been - alerting Windom to the fact she is not who she says she is. The best part is when the police storm the basement where Windom is holding Dickinson captive. He shoots at the police right through the middle of the door leading to the basement, but another officer breaks a window down below and shoots Windom at the top of the stairs. He bounces off the wall and does a neat flip over the railing! A very satisfying conclusion.
Kathy Rigby has a funny bit as a police trainee who looks too *young* to go undercover!, so Kathleen Quinlan gets the assignment and does it well. This also gives Angie Dickinson ('Sgt. Pepper Anderson') a believable opportunity to go undercover as a procurer, although her cover story turns out not to be as solid as it should have been - alerting Windom to the fact she is not who she says she is. The best part is when the police storm the basement where Windom is holding Dickinson captive. He shoots at the police right through the middle of the door leading to the basement, but another officer breaks a window down below and shoots Windom at the top of the stairs. He bounces off the wall and does a neat flip over the railing! A very satisfying conclusion.
