History Series / Decoy

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* LoonyFan: Jack Wilson from "Shadow of Van Gogh" is so obsessed with Creator/VincentVanGogh that he grows a beard to look more like him, paints a near-exact replica of "Starry Night," and even signs one of his own paintings "Vincent." Another character tells a story of Jack showing up to a party with a bandage wrapped around his head, holding a very realistic papier-mâché ear.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** The women pushing drinks in "The Showplace" are heavily implied to also be working as prostitutes.
** In "Dressed for the Kill," an older man practices "a special kind of blackmail" on a fashion model.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The women pushing drinks in "The Showplace" are heavily implied to also be working as prostitutes.

** {{Fanservice}}: ''Decoy'' never misses a chance to have Casey go undercover in a slinky dress or other garb that accentuates her good looks.

->''There are 249 of us in the Department. We carry two things in common wherever we go - the shield, called a "pottsy", and a .32 revolver. We're New York's finest... we're police women.''

-->'''Barker''': From the far-off lands of mystic Persia, from the palace of a thousand delights, come these exotic enchantresses of the East, whose sensuous and curvaceous movements have never before been seen by anyone outside the guarded walls of the Raja's harem.

* SympatheticVillain: many of the criminals Casey arrests over the course of the series are at least somewhat sympathetic.

Patricia "Casey" Jones (Beverly Garland) is a member of the NYPD Bureau of Policewomen who often works undercover. Like [[Franchise/{{Dragnet}} Joe Friday]], she solves a wide variety of crimes instead of being tied to one department.