Dickinson acknowledged her sex symbol role, stating "Are my legs exploited? Well, that’s all I have got to sell". While observing that "essentially a woman’s job is being a woman", she disliked repeatedly doing "Police Woman" scenes "where the phone rings while I’m taking a bath". In 1978, the same year the show ended, Dickinson reprised her Pepper Anderson character on the television special "Ringo", co-starring with Ringo Starr and John Ritter. She also parodied the role in the 1975 and 1979 Bob Hope Christmas specials for NBC. She did the same years later on the 1987 Christmas episode of NBC's "Saturday Night Live".