The first cop show with a female protagonist.
Beverly Garland said doing the TV series was a big mistake in her career. 'I had done television. That was an absolute no-no. In those days nobody who was in movies did television. I had to start all over again. I never got that momentum going again.'
Decoy was sold to syndication and not a network which resulted in it not being aired in either New York or Los Angeles. Beverly Garland recalled that industry executives questioned where she was for a year.
The separate Policewoman Division of the NYPD (New York Police Department) was disbanded during the 1970s.