Cagney & Lacey

Two women cops working twice as hard for half the glory, twice the excitement!

7.0(69)|1982-03-25|7 seasons, 125 episodes

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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.

Episodes

Season 1(6)Season 2(22)Season 3(7)Season 4(22)Season 5(24)Season 6(22)Season 7(22)

S1E1 · 1982-03-25 · 45m

You Call This Plain Clothes? (aka Bang, Bang, You're Dead)

5.2

The detectives again go undercover as prostitutes

S1E2 · 1982-04-01 · 45m

Pop Used to Work Chinatown

8.0

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.

S1E3 · 1982-04-08 · 45m

Beyond the Golden Door

7.0

An illegal immigrant is murdered, and the trail leads to a large racket in modern-day slave trading.

S1E4 · 1982-04-15 · 45m

Street Scene

7.0

Hispanic gang member is killed.

S1E5 · 1982-04-22 · 45m

Suffer the Children

7.0

Cagney and Lacey become involved in an investigation of child abuse and possible murder when they rescue a child from a window ledge.

S1E6 · 1982-04-29 · 45m

Better Than Equal

8.0

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.

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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