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Cagney & Lacey
"Two women cops working twice as hard for half the glory, twice the excitement!"
Overview
Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.
Status
Ended
Created By
Barbara Corday, Barbara Avedon
Network
CBS
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Season one picks up where the original made-for-TV movie left off--with Cagney and Lacey on their first undercover assignment as prostitutes. Other episodes introduce Cagney's father, a retired cop that helps out with a case, investigation of a human smuggling ring, and accusations of racism in the wake of a gang murder.
Episodes
You Call This Plain Clothes? (aka Bang, Bang, You're Dead)
The detectives again go undercover as prostitutes
Pop Used to Work Chinatown
The first appearance of Dick O'Neill as Charlie Cagney. The case occurs in Chinatown, where Charlie just happened to work, so he helps out. This is the episode where Lacey shoots and kills a fleeing perp.
Beyond the Golden Door
An illegal immigrant is murdered, and the trail leads to a large racket in modern-day slave trading.
Street Scene
Hispanic gang member is killed.
Suffer the Children
Cagney and Lacey become involved in an investigation of child abuse and possible murder when they rescue a child from a window ledge.
Better Than Equal
C&L are assigned to protect a feminist, only not a Gloria Steinem type, but a Phyllis Schlafy type. This episode was very controversial, and several stations refused to run it.
Top Cast
Tyne Daly
Mary Beth Lacey
Sharon Gless
Christine Cagney
John Karlen
Harvey Lacey
Al Waxman
Lieutenant Bert Samuels
Martin Kove
Det. Victor Isbecki
Harvey Atkin
Sergent Ronald Coleman
