Cagney & Lacey (1982)
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.
- Georgia Jeffries
- Deborah Arakelian
- Barbara Corday
Stars:
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Episode 1 - You Call This Plain Clothes? (aka Bang, Bang, You're Dead)
Release Date: 1982-03-25The detectives again go undercover as prostitutes
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Episode 2 - Pop Used to Work Chinatown
Release Date: 1982-04-01The 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.
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Episode 3 - Beyond the Golden Door
Release Date: 1982-04-08An illegal immigrant is murdered, and the trail leads to a large racket in modern-day slave trading.
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Episode 4 - Street Scene
Release Date: 1982-04-15Hispanic gang member is killed.
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Episode 5 - Suffer the Children
Release Date: 1982-04-22 -
Episode 6 - Better Than Equal
Release Date: 1982-04-29C&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.