by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Broken Badge was one of several 2-hour Police Story specials telecast during the 1977-78 TV season. Claude Akins stars as a no-nonsense cop with a bad rep. A prostitute charges Akins with harassing her; shortly afterward, she turns up dead. The rest of the drama concerns Akins' straw-grasping efforts to exonerate himself from a murder charge. The "official" debut date of Broken Badge is August 27, 1978, though it appears that it was initially scheduled for an earlier telecast.
characteristics
- Police-officer
- Prostitute/prostitution
- Sexual-harassment
- Streetwalker
- Whore
- Murder-suspect
- Internal-affairs
- Clearing One's Name
- Courtesan
- False-accusation
- Hooker
- Call-girl
