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Get Christie Love! is an American crime drama TV series starring Teresa Graves (a former featured comedienne on NBC's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) as an undercover African-American female police detective. The series is based on Dorothy Uhnak's crime-thriller novel The Ledger. However, the main character "Christie Opara"—a white, New York Police detective—was dropped completely and "Christie Love" emerged.
| Get Christie Love! | |
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| Genre | Police drama |
| Created by | George Kirgo & Peter Nelson |
| Developed by | David L. Wolper |
| Written by | Dorothy Uhnak (novel) George Kirgo (teleplay) |
| Directed by | William A. Graham |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 23 (list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 45–48 minutes |
| Production company(s) | David L. Wolper Productions, Inc |
| Distributor | NBCUniversal Television Distribution |
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| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | January 22, 1974 – April 5, 1975 |
Det. Olga Ford of the NYPD served as the series' Technical Advisor.
In 2017, it was announced that ABC was developing a reboot of the series from producers Courtney Kemp and Vin Diesel.
Screenplay
Get Christie Love! was originally broadcast in January 1974 as an ABC Movie of the Week, inspired by the 1970s heroine blaxploitation films such as Tamara Dobson's Cleopatra Jones (1973), and Pam Grier's Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974). The title character had a catchphrase; upon apprehending a criminal, Love would declare, "You're under arrest, Sugah!"
The film proved a success, and consequently spawned a short-lived television series on the ABC network. 22 episodes were shown from September 11, 1974-April 5, 1975, featuring Charles Cioffi as Love's supervisor Lt. Matt Reardon, who was later replaced by Jack Kelly as Capt. Arthur Ryan.
Financed on a meager budget and heavily sanitized to conform to Graves' religious morals (she had joined Jehovah's Witnesses since the making of the pilot, and eventually retired from the entertainment industry to focus on her faith), the series was soon cancelled. One episode featured many of Graves' former Laugh-In co-stars such as Judy Carne, Jo Anne Worley, and Arte Johnson in particular playing a mad bomber. Another notable guest star was Jaclyn Smith, who appeared in an episode entitled "A Fashion Heist."
The starring TV role made Graves the second African-American female lead in a U.S. network drama, after Diahann Carroll in Julia.
This list is for the ABC Movie of the Week of January 22, 1974 which served as the pilot for the series, with the exception of Charles Cioffi (his character was featured from the season premiere until "The Longest Fall") and Jack Kelly (who joined the series with the episode "The Deadly Sport").
- Teresa Graves as Christie Love
- Charles Cioffi as Lieutenant Matt Reardon (12 episodes)
- Harry Guardino as Captain Casey Reardon
- Jack Kelly as Captain Arthur Ryan (10 episodes)
- Louise Sorel as Helena Varga
- Paul Stevens as Enzo Cortino
- Ron Rifkin as Normand
- Lynne Holmes as Celia Jackson
- Lee Paul as Max Loomis
- Titos Vandis as Spiliolis
- Tracey Roberts as Gwen Fenley
- William Hansen as Dr. Shepard
- Andy Romano as Sergeant Seymour Greenberg
- Davis Roberts as Myron Jones
- Bill Henderson as Sergeant Stoner Martin
- Deborah Dozier as Amy
- Darlene Conley as Virginia
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