Decoy

The series starred Beverly Garland as Casey Jones, a female police officer who is often assigned to work undercover (hence becoming the "decoy" of the title). The cast changed each week with Garland the only main continuing character, although there were several recurring characters, mostly her commanding officer and immediate colleagues. The series was inspired by Jack Webb's Dragnet, set in Los Angeles, California, and used a similar format to that series, with Jones portrayed as a serious, by-the-book, yet sympathetic cop with no personal life outside of her job. In the episode "The Sound of Tears", she reveals that the man she loved was a police officer who was shot and killed by the man he was sent to apprehend. Decoy is of historical significance as the first American television series to focus on the work of a female police officer. The series also features early performances by such future stars as Larry Hagman and Peter Falk. Each episode is dedicated to the Bureau of Policewomen of the New York Police Department. Many episodes focus on females being victims of crime, and most episodes ended with Garland breaking the fourth wall and speaking directly to the audience about the case just solved.

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 141921
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired October 14, 1957
  • Recent July 7, 1958
  • Network Syndication
  • Average Runtime 25 minutes
  • Genres Crime Drama
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
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Season From To Episodes
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Season 1 October 1957 July 1958 39
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
Unassigned Episodes 39
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Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 39
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Teddy Sills 14 10/21/1957 - 02/24/1958
Stuart Rosenberg 9 12/23/1957 - 06/16/1958
David Alexander 5 03/31/1958 - 06/23/1958
Michael Gordon 3 04/07/1958 - 06/02/1958
Don Medford 2 10/14/1957 - 03/17/1958
Arthur H. Singer 2 06/30/1958 - 07/07/1958
Marc Daniels 1 04/14/1958
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Jerome Coopersmith 5 10/21/1957 - 06/30/1958
Leon Tokatyan 3 10/28/1957 - 03/24/1958
Don Ettlinger 3 01/13/1958 - 06/23/1958
Steven Gardner 3 10/14/1957 - 06/09/1958
Abram S. Ginnes 2 04/21/1958 - 04/28/1958
Frances Frankel 1 05/12/1958
Lillian Andrews 1 04/14/1958
Mel Goldberg 1 02/10/1958
Nicholas E. Baehr 1 06/16/1958
Cy Chermak 1 02/24/1958
Saul Levitt 1 06/02/1958

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