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.
Det. Olga Ford of the NYPD served as the series' Technical Advisor.
In 2017, a it was announced that ABC was developing a reboot of the series from producers Courtney Kemp and Vin Diesel.
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Synopsis
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.
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Cast and characters
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
Episodes
In Syndication
The series has aired in the U.S. on the cable network TV Land in 1997 and on Centric in 2014 as part of the show's 40th Anniversary.
Cultural references
- In a scene in Quentin Tarantino's film, Reservoir Dogs (1992), the characters Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi), Mr. White (Harvey Keitel), Mr. Orange (Tim Roth), and "Nice Guy" Eddie Cabot (Chris Penn), engage in a brief discussion regarding Get Christie Love!.
- In the 2002 Austin Powers movie Austin Powers in Goldmember, the character Foxxy Cleopatra uses the famous phrase, "You're under arrest, Sugah!"
Reboot
In 2017, producers Courtney Kemp and Vin Diesel became attached to a reboot of the series for ABC, entitled Get Christie Love (without the exclamation point), a co-production between Lionsgate Television and Universal Television, which will focus on an African American female CIA agent who leads an elite ops unit.
See also
- Blaxploitation
- List of female action heroes
References
External links
- Get Christie Love! on IMDb
- Get Christie Love! is available for free download at the Internet Archive
- Get Christie Love! at AllMovie
- Top 10 Kick-Ass TV Divas
- 22 ABC TV Episodes
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