Decoy (1957)

Genre

drama television series

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 39 episodes

Rated

9

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A female police officer goes undercover to catch criminals in New York City. Each episode follows her posing as a decoy to lure lawbreakers into revealing themselves.

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What happens

Decoy (also titled Policewoman Decoy) 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. Many Decoy episodes are in the public domain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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