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Amy Prentiss

“Amy Prentiss” – 1974


The video above is in fact from A Man Called Ironside, and was the pilot to the spin off series called Amy Prentiss.
Catherine MacGregor stars as Irma Pyle in the San Francisco Police Department. Jessica Walter plays the title character, a hardworking San Francisco police woman who aspires to the position of Chief of Police. Amy has a supporter in chief Robert Ironside Raymond Burr.
Director(s)
Lou Antonio
Noel Black
Gordon Hessler
Boris Sagal

Producer
Cy Chermak executive producer

Cast
Jessica Walter – Amy Prentiss
Steve Sandor – Detective Tony Russell
Art Metrano – Detective Rod Pena
Johnny Seven – Detective Contreras
Helen Hunt – Jill Prentiss
Gwenn Mitchell – Joan Carter

Amy Prentiss was San Francisco’s first female chief of detectives, and the stories reflected the affects of this on the PD and Amy’s life. The series was a spin-off from Ironside.

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70’s Televison

What an amazing piece of kit our telly was. Can you imagine having to change channel by turning a knob to tune in BBC2 and forever getting up to realign the aerial and contrast, and the only way to stop the picture from rolling was to give the set a good thump? Do you remember that we only have three channels to watch? Thinking about it, the conversation was better at school next day as everyone seemed to be watching the same thing unlike nowadays where we have too much choice. Aye, the quality of programmes seem to have dwindled when you think back to what we had in our days.

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