About Police Story
- Released on March 20, 1973
Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a major step forward in the realistic depiction of police work and violence on network TV. Although it was an anthology, there were certain things that all episodes had in common; for instance, the main character in each episode was a police officer. The setting was always Los Angeles and the characters always worked for some branch of the LAPD. Notwithstanding the anthology format, there were recurring characters. Scott Brady appeared in more than a dozen episodes as "Vinnie," a former cop who, upon retirement, had opened a bar catering to police officers, and who acted as a sort of Greek chorus during the run of the series, commenting on the characters and plots.
Main Cast of Police Story
Shelly Novack
Scott Brady
Joe Santos
Secondary Cast of Police Story
Val Avery
Sal Mineo
Jan-Michael Vincent
Peter Brown
Tom Drake
Barbara Rhoades
Bruce Glover
Joan Blondell
Luke Askew
Robert Mandan
Frank Converse
Tony Musante
Judith Baldwin
Hampton Fancher
Freda Payne
Jim Brown
Lisle Wilson
Barry Sullivan
Verna Bloom
Fred Williamson
Ernie Wheelwright
Dick Butkus
Christopher Stone
Don Marshall
Godfrey Cambridge
Edd Byrnes
Hope Lange
Cleavon Little
Herb Edelman
Arthur Franz
Sue Lyon
Jack Stauffer
David Brian
Jason Evers
Mike Connors
Gregory Walcott
Darren McGavin
Linda Cristal
Martin Balsam
Frankie Avalon
James Gregory
Anne Lockhart
Ward Costello
Tige Andrews
David Groh
Michael Conrad
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Alan Vint
John Russell
Rod Cameron
Brandon Cruz
Dennis Dugan
Guy Stockwell
Jim Backus
John Kerr
Vince Edwards
Antony Carbone
Albert Salmi
Theresa Merritt
Bernie Casey
Andrew Stevens
France Nuyen
Stephanie Edwards
Robert Hooks
Rodney Allen Rippy
Paul Koslo
Anne Seymour
Jack Soo
Elaine Joyce
Catherine Burns
Stephen McNally
John Ashton
Robert Walden
Kim Darby
Noah Keen
Susan Batson
René Enríquez
John Karlen
Leland Palmer
Rosemary DeCamp
Carl Betz
David Doyle
Robert Gentry
Paul Carr
Roberto Contreras
Joan Leslie
Karen Black
Mary Ann Mobley
Lola Albright
Lenore Kasdorf
Joby Baker
Philip Carey
Sandy Dennis
David Canary
John Quade
Angie Dickinson plays Lisa (1 episode)
Anthony James
Max Showalter
Christopher Norris
Lana Wood
Rufus Thomas
James Farentino
Gale Sondergaard
David Ladd
Glenn Ford
Amanda McBroom
Sharon Acker
Barbara Rush
Tina Louise
Ed Lauter plays Ralph Coleman / Joseph Kinsella (2 episodes)
Bettye Ackerman
Bibi Besch
Christopher George
Clu Gulager
Jerry Douglas
Allan Miller
Denise Nicholas
Danny Bonaduce
David Birney
Michael Cole
Richard Loo
Elisha Cook Jr.
Pamela Franklin
Benson Fong
Vanessa Brown
John Amos
Marty Ingels
John Davis Chandler
Simon Oakland
George Hamilton plays Chris De Lucia (1 episode)
Cliff Emmich
Paul Benjamin
Manu Tupou
Ray Girardin
Estelle Winwood
Christopher Connelly
David Sheiner
Joseph Wambaugh
Kim Hunter
Elizabeth Ashley
Chuck Connors
Vic Tayback
Marie Windsor
Bert Freed
Herbert Jefferson Jr.
Lloyd Bochner
Jeff Morrow
Jackie Coogan
Zina Bethune
John Larch
Wolfman Jack
Bernie Hamilton
Susan Oliver
Burr DeBenning
Shani Wallis
Alex Cord
Mark Stevens
Larry Storch
Harry Guardino
Don Murray
Pepe Serna
Richard Jaeckel
Jeremy Slate
Clint Ritchie
Jackie Cooper
Norman Fell
Robert Stack
Harold Gould
Murray Hamilton
Cliff Gorman
Woodrow Parfrey
Lyle Bettger
Phillip Pine
Sharon Farrell
Ed Peck
Howard George
Janis Hansen
Robert Symonds
Cameron Mitchell
Robert Brown
George Murdock
BarBara Luna
Howard Duff
Mel Stewart
John Astin
Steve Kanaly
Ricardo Montalban
Ji-Tu Cumbuka
John Fiedler
Arlene Golonka
Dennis Cole
Edmond O'Brien
Moosie Drier
Noah Beery Jr.
Royal Dano
Meg Foster
James Olson
Bert Convy
Paul Burke
Joaquin Garay III
Michael Strong
Raymond St. Jacques
Joe Garagiola
Marsha Hunt
Joanna Moore
Pamela Bellwood
Charles Dierkop
Vic Morrow
Michael Ansara
Brooke Bundy
Peter Mark Richman
Henry Beckman
Tracy Reed
Mitzi Hoag
Quinn K. Redeker
Fionnula Flanagan
Glenn Corbett
Michael Alldredge
Michael Anderson Jr.
Claude Akins
Audrey Totter
Edward Albert
Casey Kasem
Raymond Vitte
Sian Barbara Allen
Art Metrano
Kaz Garas
Diane Baker
Steve Lawrence
Brock Peters
William Smith
Bert Kramer
Gail Strickland
Patty Duke
Frank Sinatra Jr.
Jerry Lee Lewis
John Ireland
Sorrell Booke
David Janssen
Robert Culp
Gordon Jump
Rosa Turich
Donald Woods
John Lupton
Rory Calhoun
Gloria DeHaven
Neville Brand
Russell Johnson
Pat Crowley
Mel Ferrer
Lincoln Kilpatrick
Sylvester Stallone
Joseph Campanella
Dorothy Provine
Jack Dodson
Charles McGraw
Don Meredith
Robert Alda
Pernell Roberts
Joe Turkel
Raymond Singer
Frank Campanella
George Maharis
Don Barry
John Crawford
Wayne Maunder
Conrad Janis
Cesare Danova
Paul Picerni
Joseph Ruskin
Lee Delano
James Griffith
Kim Richards
James Whitmore Jr.
Gary Lockwood
Donald O'Connor
Leslie Parrish
Don Diamond
Richard Egan
Walter Burke
Jack Ging
Ramon Bieri
Macdonald Carey
Francine York
Alejandro Rey
Malcolm Atterbury
Madlyn Rhue
Lloyd Bridges
Edward Andrews
Albert Paulsen
Lynda Day George
Booth Colman
Frank Marth
Barbara Anderson
Michael Callan
Anjanette Comer
Albert Popwell
Dane Clark
Hari Rhodes
James T. Callahan
Dana Elcar
Marjoe Gortner
Virginia Mayo
Arthur Batanides
John Bennett Perry
Nita Talbot
Felton Perry
Don Stroud
Richard Ward
John Forsythe
Joanna Pettet
Nora Heflin
Cliff Osmond
Alexandra Hay
Edward James Olmos
Lillian Lehman
David Cassidy plays Officer Dan Shay (1 episode)
Mills Watson
Warren Oates
Michael Learned
Ben Frank
Martin Milner
Donald May
Shelley Fabares
Nehemiah Persoff
Jeff Corey
Stuart Whitman
Harrison Page
Gregory Sierra
Ralph Meeker
Clifton Davis
Janis Paige
Scoey Mitchell
Diana Muldaur
Hector Elias
Heather Angel
Anne Jeffreys
Pat Carroll
Teddy Wilson
Frank De Kova
Charles Drake
Earl Holliman
Jayne Kennedy
Larry Wilcox
Abby Dalton
John Vivyan
Dean Stockwell plays Ott (1 episode) , Callan (1 episode) , Detective Giacino (1 episode) , Bennett (1 episode)
Michael Parks
Richard Erdman
Steve Brodie
Lloyd Gough
Scott Marlowe
Timothy Scott
Ahna Capri
Ron Masak
Biff McGuire
Louis Gossett Jr.
Jonelle Allen
Edward Binns
Milton Frome
James Darren
John van Dreelen
William Schallert
Sid Haig plays Dell (1 episode) , Reid (1 episode)
Michael Norell
Dewey Martin
Jaime Sánchez
Corinne Calvet
Paul Mantee
Martha Scott
Gary Conway
Valentin de Vargas
Smokey Robinson
Anthony Caruso
Jeff Donnell
Michael Margotta
Pat Harrington, Jr.
Kathie Browne
Bob Hastings
James Luisi
John Randolph
Paulene Myers
Richard Venture
Eddie Egan
Tim Matheson
Jack Donner
Tim O'Connor
Ray Danton
Kenneth Washington
William Benedict
Stanley Adams
Nancy Walker
Milton Selzer
Isabel Cooley
Dick Yarmy
Robert Ginty
Edie Adams
Joe Renteria
Lew Horn
Tommy Lee plays Lim Fong (1 episode)
Desi Arnaz Jr.
Diana Ewing plays Claire Montrose (1 episode)
Sheila Larken plays Anne Baker (1 episode) , Diane Stewart (1 episode) , Ginny Hosford (1 episode)
Tom Stern plays Marty (1 episode)
Celia Milius plays Sabina Caddo (1 episode)
Brooke Mills plays Kim Swanson (1 episode)
Jerry Ayres plays Officer Kilda (1 episode)
Terri Lynn Wood plays Jennie / Amy Gordy (3 episodes)
Greta Chi plays Barbara Chang (1 episode)
Chanin Hale plays Sue (1 episode)
Bert Williams plays Walters (1 episode)
Gwenn Mitchell plays Anna (1 episode) , Billie (1 episode) , Clarisse Webber (1 episode) , Gigi (1 episode)
Geoffrey Land plays Romeo Silt (1 episode)
Virginia Vincent plays Mrs. Hall (1 episode)
David Yanez plays Paco (1 episode)
Gilbert De la Pena plays Ramon (1 episode)
Lance Kerwin plays Joey Jr. (1 episode)
Joyce Bulifant plays Katie Pardnales (1 episode)
Crew of Police Story
Directing
Writing
Production
- Val Avery
- Sal Mineo
- Jan-Michael Vincent
- Peter Brown
- Tom Drake
- Barbara Rhoades
- Donna Mills
- Bruce Glover
- Joan Blondell
- Ron Leibman
- Luke Askew
- Robert Mandan
- Frank Converse
- Tony Musante
- Judith Baldwin
- Hampton Fancher
- Freda Payne
- Jim Brown
- Lisle Wilson
- Tony Lo Bianco
- Barry Sullivan
- Marc Alaimo
- Verna Bloom
- Fred Williamson
- Ernie Wheelwright
- Dick Butkus
- Christopher Stone
- Don Marshall
- Godfrey Cambridge
- Edd Byrnes
- Kaye Ballard
- Hope Lange
- Cleavon Little
- Susie Coelho
- Herb Edelman
- Arthur Franz
- Sue Lyon
- Jack Stauffer
- David Brian
- Jason Evers
- Mike Connors
- Gregory Walcott
- Darren McGavin
- Linda Cristal
- Martin Balsam
- Frankie Avalon
- James Gregory
- Anne Lockhart
- Ward Costello
- Tige Andrews
- David Groh
- Michael Conrad
- Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
- Alan Vint
- John Russell
- Rod Cameron
- Brandon Cruz
- Dennis Dugan
- Guy Stockwell
- Alex Rocco
- Jim Backus
- John Kerr
- Vince Edwards
- Antony Carbone
- Albert Salmi
- Theresa Merritt
- Bernie Casey
- Andrew Stevens
- France Nuyen
- Stephanie Edwards
- Michael Brandon
- Robert Hooks
- Rodney Allen Rippy
- Paul Koslo
- Anne Seymour
- Jack Soo
- Elaine Joyce
- Catherine Burns
- Stephen McNally
- John Ashton
- Robert Walden
- Kim Darby
- Noah Keen
- Susan Batson
- René Enríquez
- John Karlen
- Leland Palmer
- Rosemary DeCamp
- Carl Betz
- David Doyle
- Robert Gentry
- Paul Carr
- Jack Carter
- Roberto Contreras
- Joan Leslie
- Karen Black
- Mary Ann Mobley
- Lola Albright
- Donnelly Rhodes
- Lenore Kasdorf
- Joby Baker
- Philip Carey
- Sandy Dennis
- David Canary
- John Quade
- Angie Dickinson
- Anthony James
- Max Showalter
- Christopher Norris
- Lana Wood
- Rufus Thomas
- James Farentino
- Gale Sondergaard
- David Ladd
- Glenn Ford
- Amanda McBroom
- Sharon Acker
- Barbara Rush
- Tina Louise
- Ed Lauter
- Bettye Ackerman
- Bibi Besch
- Christopher George
- Clu Gulager
- Jerry Douglas
- Allan Miller
- Denise Nicholas
- Danny Bonaduce
- David Birney
- Michael Cole
- Richard Loo
- Elisha Cook Jr.
- Pamela Franklin
- Benson Fong
- Vanessa Brown
- John Amos
- Marty Ingels
- Scott Hylands
- John Davis Chandler
- Simon Oakland
- George Hamilton
- Cliff Emmich
- Paul Benjamin
- Manu Tupou
- Ray Girardin
- Estelle Winwood
- Christopher Connelly
- David Sheiner
- Joseph Wambaugh
- Kim Hunter
- Elizabeth Ashley
- Chuck Connors
- Vic Tayback
- Marie Windsor
- Bert Freed
- Herbert Jefferson Jr.
- Lloyd Bochner
- Jeff Morrow
- Jackie Coogan
- Zina Bethune
- John Larch
- Wolfman Jack
- Bernie Hamilton
- Susan Oliver
- Burr DeBenning
- Shani Wallis
- Chad Everett
- Alex Cord
- Mark Stevens
- Larry Storch
- Harry Guardino
- Don Murray
- Pepe Serna
- Richard Jaeckel
- Jeremy Slate
- Clint Ritchie
- Jackie Cooper
- Norman Fell
- Robert Stack
- Harold Gould
- Murray Hamilton
- Cliff Gorman
- Woodrow Parfrey
- Lyle Bettger
- Phillip Pine
- Sharon Farrell
- Ed Peck
- Howard George
- Janis Hansen
- Robert Symonds
- Cameron Mitchell
- Ellen Geer
- Robert Brown
- Ed Asner
- George Murdock
- BarBara Luna
- Howard Duff
- Mel Stewart
- John Astin
- Steve Kanaly
- Ricardo Montalban
- Ji-Tu Cumbuka
- John Fiedler
- Arlene Golonka
- Dennis Cole
- Michael Bell
- Edmond O'Brien
- Moosie Drier
- Noah Beery Jr.
- Royal Dano
- Meg Foster
- James Olson
- Bert Convy
- Paul Burke
- Joaquin Garay III
- Dee Wallace
- Michael Strong
- Henry Corden
- Raymond St. Jacques
- George DiCenzo
- Joe Garagiola
- Marsha Hunt
- Joanna Moore
- Pamela Bellwood
- Charles Dierkop
- Vic Morrow
- Michael Ansara
- Brooke Bundy
- Peter Mark Richman
- Henry Beckman
- Tracy Reed
- Jenny O'Hara
- Mitzi Hoag
- Bruce Davison
- Quinn K. Redeker
- James Woods
- Fionnula Flanagan
- Glenn Corbett
- Michael Alldredge
- Michael Anderson Jr.
- Cheryl Ladd
- Claude Akins
- Audrey Totter
- Edward Albert
- Casey Kasem
- Raymond Vitte
- Sian Barbara Allen
- Art Metrano
- Kaz Garas
- Diane Baker
- Steve Lawrence
- Brock Peters
- William Smith
- James Cromwell
- Bert Kramer
- Gail Strickland
- Patty Duke
- Frank Sinatra Jr.
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- John Ireland
- Sorrell Booke
- David Janssen
- Nancy Wilson
- Robert Culp
- Gordon Jump
- Rosa Turich
- Donald Woods
- John Lupton
- Rory Calhoun
- Gloria DeHaven
- Neville Brand
- Russell Johnson
- Pat Crowley
- Mel Ferrer
- Lincoln Kilpatrick
- Sylvester Stallone
- Joseph Campanella
- Dorothy Provine
- Jack Dodson
- Dennis Weaver
- Charles McGraw
- Don Meredith
- Robert Alda
- Pernell Roberts
- Joe Turkel
- Raymond Singer
- Frank Campanella
- George Maharis
- Don Barry
- John Crawford
- Wayne Maunder
- Gary Collins
- Conrad Janis
- Cesare Danova
- Paul Picerni
- Joseph Ruskin
- Robert Goulet
- Lee Delano
- James Griffith
- Kim Richards
- James Whitmore Jr.
- Gary Lockwood
- Donald O'Connor
- Leslie Parrish
- Don Diamond
- Richard Egan
- Robert Forster
- Walter Burke
- Jack Ging
- Ramon Bieri
- Macdonald Carey
- Francine York
- Alejandro Rey
- Malcolm Atterbury
- Madlyn Rhue
- Lloyd Bridges
- Stefan Arngrim
- Linda Dano
- Edward Andrews
- William Shatner
- Albert Paulsen
- Lynda Day George
- Booth Colman
- Frank Marth
- Barbara Anderson
- Michael Callan
- Don Johnson
- Anjanette Comer
- Kurt Russell
- Albert Popwell
- Dane Clark
- Hari Rhodes
- James T. Callahan
- Dana Elcar
- Marjoe Gortner
- Virginia Mayo
- Dabney Coleman
- Arthur Batanides
- John Bennett Perry
- Nita Talbot
- Felton Perry
- Don Stroud
- Richard Ward
- John Forsythe
- Joanna Pettet
- Nora Heflin
- Antonio Fargas
- Cliff Osmond
- Alexandra Hay
- Edward James Olmos
- Lillian Lehman
- David Cassidy
- Mills Watson
- Warren Oates
- Michael Learned
- Ben Frank
- Martin Milner
- Donald May
- James Murtaugh
- Shelley Fabares
- Nehemiah Persoff
- Jeff Corey
- Stuart Whitman
- Harrison Page
- Gregory Sierra
- Ralph Meeker
- Clifton Davis
- Janis Paige
- Scoey Mitchell
- June Lockhart
- Diana Muldaur
- Larry Hagman
- Hector Elias
- Heather Angel
- Anne Jeffreys
- Pat Carroll
- Teddy Wilson
- Frank De Kova
- Charles Drake
- Don Stark
- Earl Holliman
- Jayne Kennedy
- Larry Wilcox
- Abby Dalton
- John Vivyan
- Dean Stockwell
- Michael Parks
- Richard Erdman
- Steve Brodie
- Lloyd Gough
- Scott Marlowe
- Timothy Scott
- Elinor Donahue
- Ahna Capri
- Ron Masak
- Biff McGuire
- Louis Gossett Jr.
- Jonelle Allen
- Edward Binns
- Milton Frome
- James Darren
- John van Dreelen
- William Schallert
- Sid Haig
- Don Most
- Michael Norell
- Dewey Martin
- Jaime Sánchez
- Corinne Calvet
- Paul Mantee
- Martha Scott
- Gary Conway
- Valentin de Vargas
- Smokey Robinson
- Anthony Caruso
- Jeff Donnell
- Michael Margotta
- Pat Harrington, Jr.
- Kathie Browne
- Bob Hastings
- James Luisi
- John Randolph
- Paulene Myers
- Richard Venture
- Eddie Egan
- Tim Matheson
- Jack Donner
- Tim O'Connor
- Ray Danton
- Kenneth Washington
- William Benedict
- Stanley Adams
- Nancy Walker
- Milton Selzer
- Alan Fudge
- Isabel Cooley
- Dick Yarmy
- Robert Ginty
- Edie Adams
- Joe Renteria
- Lew Horn
- Tommy Lee
- Desi Arnaz Jr.
- Diana Ewing
- Sheila Larken
- Tom Stern
- Celia Milius
- Brooke Mills
- Jerry Ayres
- Terri Lynn Wood
- Greta Chi
- Chanin Hale
- Bert Williams
- Gwenn Mitchell
- Geoffrey Land
- Virginia Vincent
- David Yanez
- Gilbert De la Pena
- Lance Kerwin
- Joyce Bulifant