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Cagney & Lacey: Created by Barbara Avedon, Barbara Corday. With Tyne Daly, Al Waxman, Martin Kove, John Karlen. Two female police detectives cooperate with each other both in their professions and in their personal lives.
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- 1981-10-08
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- 60
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Producer Barney Rosenzweig was influenced by the feminist movement through his then-girlfriend Barbara Corday, who recommended to him Molly Haskell's book From Reverence to Rape. After learning through Haskell that there had never been a female buddy film, Rosenzweig sought to make one, a comedy initially titled Newman & Redford (before changing th...
Actress Loretta Swit played the role of Christine Cagney in the original television movie (October 1981), but was forced to decline the role in the series when the producers of M*A*S*H refused to let her out of her contract. When the movie was picked up as a series, first airing with six episodes as a midseason replacement in the spring of 1982, Me...
Al Waxman co-starred as Cagney and Lacey's good-natured and sometimes blustery supervisor, Lt. Bert Samuels. Carl Lumbly and Martin Kove played, respectively, fellow detectives Marcus Petrie and Victor Isbecki. Sidney Clute played veteran detective Paul La Guardia. John Karlen co-starred as Mary Beth's husband, Harvey Lacey, and Tony La Torre and T...
Cagney & Lacey premiered in March 1982 with high hopes from the industry, in the wake of the TV movie. Reviews of the series, however, with Meg Foster in place of Loretta Swit, were mixed. Critics praised the level of storytelling, but put emphasis on the aggressiveness that both Daly and Foster expressed with their characters. As soon as the six-e...
The main titles for the first season are accompanied by the theme song "Ain't That the Way" by Michael Stull, sung by Marie Cain, and shows the two lead characters being promoted to plainclothes detectives and later disguised as prostitutes. This was replaced the following season by an instrumental theme composed by Bill Contiset to a collage of ac...
The series was followed by four television films which reunite the characters Christine Cagney and Mary Beth Lacey. In the storyline, Cagney has been promoted to Lieutenant, and is now working at the District Attorney's office as a special investigator. Lacey, meanwhile, has retired from the police force. However, at Cagney's urging (and partly due...
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Jan 26, 2012 · Cagney & Lacey - Where to Watch and Stream - TV Guide. 1982 -2021. 7 Seasons. CBS. Drama. TV14. Watchlist. Tough female cops fight crime on the streets of New York City while battling...
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Cagney and Lacey become involved in an investigation of child abuse and possible murder when they rescue a child from a window ledge.
About Cagney & Lacey. In the 1980s, the Emmy award winning television series Cagney & Lacey was on the air for six seasons, becoming a part of the landscape and the language of the 21st century.
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