Imagine taking the gritty, sexy and very adult blacksploitation genre and transporting it to TV in the 1970s! There is absolutely no way that they could seriously tackle this genre for many reasons, such as the language, nudity, violence and hatred of 'the man'--all stuff they just couldn't do justice to on television! Yet some brilliant execs at ABC thought this would be a great idea...and this spawned "Get Christie Love". My review is only for the pilot movie...and I have no idea if the show was as god-awful...though I assume it must have been or worse, as usually they put some of the best stuff in the pilot!
When the film begins, Christie is on assignment to pose as a hooker in order to catch a serial killer. Her backup is apparently brainless and loses track of her...and so it's up to Christie to take out the psycho all by herself. Later, her boss inexplicably screams at her and tells her she did a lousy job. A short time later, she's undercover in a hotel room when the bellman tries to murder her*. She fights him off and he plunges to his death. Later, her boss inexplicably screams at her and tells her she did a lousy job!! She also ends up getting to one of her leads when it's too late** as she's looking for a long-lost (and assume aborted) child.
"Get Christie Love!" is a bad film...and I am surprised that it did well enough to lead to a short-lived TV series. Teresa Graves was not a particularly good or believable actress, the writing was often atrocious and the story so sanitized and silly that I can't see it attracting much of an audience.
*The fight scene with the bellman is one of the most unintentionally hilarious scenes I've ever seen in a made for TV movie. At one point, the madman gets the gun away from Christie and it's lying next to him. Instead of picking it up and shooting her, he dives at her when she's standing on the balcony and essentially throws himself off to his death! It's sloppy AND stupid!
**A woman calls Christie with important information. BUT, she won't tell Christie over the phone...she wants Christie to meet her. Naturally this means the woman MUST die before telling Christie the whole story...an overly used cliché if I've ever seen one!
When the film begins, Christie is on assignment to pose as a hooker in order to catch a serial killer. Her backup is apparently brainless and loses track of her...and so it's up to Christie to take out the psycho all by herself. Later, her boss inexplicably screams at her and tells her she did a lousy job. A short time later, she's undercover in a hotel room when the bellman tries to murder her*. She fights him off and he plunges to his death. Later, her boss inexplicably screams at her and tells her she did a lousy job!! She also ends up getting to one of her leads when it's too late** as she's looking for a long-lost (and assume aborted) child.
"Get Christie Love!" is a bad film...and I am surprised that it did well enough to lead to a short-lived TV series. Teresa Graves was not a particularly good or believable actress, the writing was often atrocious and the story so sanitized and silly that I can't see it attracting much of an audience.
*The fight scene with the bellman is one of the most unintentionally hilarious scenes I've ever seen in a made for TV movie. At one point, the madman gets the gun away from Christie and it's lying next to him. Instead of picking it up and shooting her, he dives at her when she's standing on the balcony and essentially throws himself off to his death! It's sloppy AND stupid!
**A woman calls Christie with important information. BUT, she won't tell Christie over the phone...she wants Christie to meet her. Naturally this means the woman MUST die before telling Christie the whole story...an overly used cliché if I've ever seen one!