Police Story (TV Series) The Cutting Edge (1975) User Reviews

A man going through many life transitions....

[planktonrules · 7/10 · 15 April 2017]

Chuck Connors plays Sgt. Ed Peebles, a cop at a very serious stage in his life. His wife died not long ago, his long-time partner just retired and folks around Peebles worry because he's withdrawn into himself. What makes it worse is that his inattention to procedure gets his new partner (Sylvester Stallone) shot! Is Peebles a menace to the streets...or is this just a bit of a rut he'll soon get himself out of and get back to being his old self?

This is another excellent installment of "Police Story". Excellent, because it's written well, talks about issues you never see other police shows talk about and has some really good acting. Stallone didn't impress me (he mumbled too much) but the rest were very good and the story filled with interesting twists.

More a slice of life as opposed to a traditional story.

[planktonrules · 7/10 · 1 September 2019]

Sergeant Ed Pebbles (Chuck Connors) is an older detective whose partner just retired. Now, with a new and much younger partner (Sylvester Stallone), Ed seems to be having a lot of trouble getting back in the groove. Again and again, Ed seems to have lost his edge and you wonder if forced retirement is on the horizon. Can he manage to get it back together?

As you'd expect, the acting and writing were excellent...something you nearly always see with "Police Story". While this isn't one of the more exciting episodes to watch, it is still very well worth your time.

Good episode because of Sylvester!!!

[donnamariejones · 7/10 · 26 March 2023]

I'm probably giving my age away being I'm stating good episode based on Sylvester Stallone's starting in this episode. If I said it was because of Chuck Connors you would know I'm older but I'm not only giving out my age with the fact of loving Sylvester but if I say I was a Rocky fan which you may have guessed already I think I'm narrowing my age down more. So yes I was a teenager when the Rocky's first movies came out and saw and was a fan of the first 3 of the sequels. And yes I know some people don't think Sylvester is or was a great actor because of his extremely strong obvious NY roots and typical Brooklynite characteristics are showing through too strong but I'm a born and partially brooklynite myself from around the corner Flatbush. So how could I not love him!!! Funny I grew up partially in NJ also as my mother was born in Brooklyn and worked on the miracle -34 th st and my father hailed from the Bronx - they had spoken over the phone many times for a year with through their work and finally my father ended up coming to my mothers office Ian's the rest is history!!! My father moved in with my mother when they married into the house my mother grew up in. And eventually my father ended up commuting to his new job Fedders air conditioning in Edison NJ. Eventually then when ready to buy a house late 60's they ended up in Woodbridge NJ and as my mother would eventually say was a great move being what the area would eventually become. For a while while still visiting older family members I. Brooklyn we'd ride past the old house til it eventually sadly burned down. So fir me not having ever seen this to show til the age of 60 in 2023 this episode I thought was just ok except for the fact of Sylvester but if your older than me you may like it for Chick Connirs and if your not too much younger you may like it for the same reason or that you enjoy old police shows. I happen to be as I said fan if Sylvester but also as a retired pedi nurse and former wife of a cop love both medical and police shows although I would've been too young to see this when it was first out amd maybe even in early repeats - I grew up more on the later 70's and early 80's shows and lived many from that time and after. Even some of the late 60's and early 70's I eventually became old enough to watch in repeats.

Meeting Chuck Connors and Sylvester Stallone

[Planetgal50 · 30 March 2006]

We were visiting relatives in the area and came upon them shooting the series around the corner from where we were staying. I obtained Chuck Connors autograph and both he and Sylvester Stallone were sitting in their director chairs on the side of a building. While Chuck Connors was writing his autograph, Sylvester Stallone asked if I wanted his autograph...Not knowing who he was, as this was before Rocky...I said "No" and left once I obtained Chuck Connors autograph. As time went on and the movie Rocky came out, I realized whose signature I rebuffed. I wonder how he felt when I rejected his offer. It's strange how you remember things from 30 years ago. This really has nothing to do with the actual story line of Police Story...but just a little anecdote.

Vivid, exciting episode

[searchanddestroy-1 · 29 August 2015]

The most perfect example of what this tremendous crime TV show offered us for all those years. The buddy cops scheme. Chuck Connors is a vet cop, not far from retirement, who sees his old pal partner getting retired before him and then has to do his patrol job with a rookie, at least a younger heat played by the young Sly Stallone. Speaking of him, I highly appreciated the other comment about the autograph...Cops confronted with their problems, job and personal ones. Connors and Stallone give here convincing performances for such a story. Connors the rough, tough cop, who may be poignant at some moments, stops at nothing to catch the hoods who shot his partner Stallone. I still think here of NEW CENTURIONS, except this movie, also adapted from Jo Wambaugh, spoke of cops in uniform. Fast paced episode that brings everything you may search in such a show.