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
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Episode 1 - No Vacancy
Release Date: 1987-09-21Cagney and Lacey have another star witness who needs special treatment. This one is a schizophrenic, although not too bad if he takes his medication. But, of course, he doesn't.
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Episode 2 - The City is Burning
Release Date: 1987-09-28Corassa's gun is used to kill a black kid who just happens to be in a white section of town. The black community alleges coverup. This is based on a real-life incident.
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Episode 3 - Loves Me Not
Release Date: 1987-10-05Petrie gets his promotion to sergeant and leaves the show (Carl Lumbly wanted out). Lacy interferes in a neighborhood dispute and her enraged neighbors call for a Civilian Review Board. David Keeler (back in Chris' good graces) comes to the rescue
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Episode 4 - Different Drummer
Release Date: 1987-10-19There's an older woman who acts strange, burns incense, and claims to be a witch. Is she? Or is she merely lonely and poor and standing in the way of higher real estate prices?
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Episode 5 - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Release Date: 1987-10-26Mature"" prostitutes are getting bumped off, so our heroines go undercover to investigate. Merry Clayton joins the cast as Detective Verna Dee Jordan. Isbecki just adores having a woman partner.
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Episode 6 - Video Verite
Release Date: 1987-11-09A valuable music video has been stolen, and there's some suspicious white powder about. In the meantime, Cagney's niece Bridget again visits, trying to carve out a career as a New York actress
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Episode 7 - Greed
Release Date: 1987-11-16A game show is supposedly crooked. Once again, undercover work, this time as game show contestants (dressed up like fruits).
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Episode 8 - Secrets
Release Date: 1987-11-23Cagney gets her dream - a chance to work with the Major Task Force. But one of those so-polished officers is really a traitor. Will they find the traitor, or will the glamour get to Cagney?
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Episode 9 - Do I Know You?
Release Date: 1988-01-05Brad Potter seems like the perfect date - tall, handsome, successful. But he's really a date rapist. Cagney must explain to the guys at the precinct why she didn't draw her gun, and of course, the baddy says yes, it happened, but she consented
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Episode 10 - Old Flames
Release Date: 1988-01-12Harvey Jr. has his 18th birthday. His birthday present from his parents is a computer. His present to them is the announcement that he will enlist in the Marines.
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Episode 11 - Trading Places
Release Date: 1988-01-19When Samuels takes some time off, Chris expects to be put in charge. But a high-tech, none-""street"" officer, Lt. Thornton, gets the job. The crime case deals with construction kickbacks, so Harvey volunteers to help out by wearing a wire
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Episode 12 - Shadow of a Doubt
Release Date: 1988-01-26Cagney and Lacey go undercover at a computer manufacturer. But the company has random drug testing and Chris flunks it. Of course, David argues that this is a violation of her civil rights.
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Episode 13 - Hello Goodbye
Release Date: 1988-02-09David finally pops the question to Chris. she's consistent - she says no, even though Mary Beth likes him much better than she did Dory.
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Episode 14 - School Daze
Release Date: 1988-02-16The 14th Precinct gang takes a refresher course at the police academy, along with Detective Dupnick from Queens. Lacey is the eager, hand-up, teacher's pet. Chris thinks it's a waste of time
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Episode 15 - Land of the Free
Release Date: 1988-02-23A Salvadoran refugee is murdered. Some people say he ran drugs, others say he was a saint. In the B story, Chris meets Nick the plumber at an AA meeting.
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Episode 16 - A Class Act
Release Date: 1988-03-15A very valuable painting is stolen, and Cagney and Lacey make the rounds of fancy galleries looking for leads. In the B plot, Samuels has a reunion with an old friend. Also, the dissimilarities between David Keeler and Nick are shown. Nick was decidedly everything David was not and vice-versa.
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Episode 17 - Button, Button
Release Date: 1988-03-22A man is murdered, and his girl friend begs the police for help. It's a hard case, since he was in the Federal Witness Protection Program
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Episode 18 - Amends
Release Date: 1988-03-29Thornton shots a fellow officer in an operation that went bad. That's what happens when you put someone with no practical experience in charge
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Episode 19 - Friendly Fire
Release Date: 1988-04-05In a sequel to episode #112, Cagney's rape case goes to trial. The main story is that Harvey Jr. is missing while doing maneuvers. Fortunately Mary Beth has moral support from both her father and Christine.
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Episode 20 - Yup
Release Date: 1988-05-02A Wall Street tycoon is burgled, and he has a lot of clout with the higher-ups. Harvey Jr. comes home for a visit, and nobody mentions the previous episode. (Rosenzweig usually does a much better job of continuity.)
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Episode 21 - A Fair Shake (1)
Release Date: 1988-05-16A bank is missing some money - not much, only $100,000. The baddy offers a plea bargain - she knows who stole $100 million. Now that's worth sending Cagney and Lacey to upstate New York to hunt down the bank president. But when they find him, they discover that the real bank president is gone, and that this is an FBI agent. Our heroines narrowly escape a shootout and get offered a promotion to Major Case Squad as the series ends
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Episode 22 - A Fair Shake (2)
Release Date: 1988-05-16A bank is missing some money - not much, only $100,000. The baddy offers a plea bargain - she knows who stole $100 million. Now that's worth sending Cagney and Lacey to upstate New York to hunt down the bank president. But when they find him, they discover that the real bank president is gone, and that this is an FBI agent. Our heroines narrowly escape a shootout and get offered a promotion to Major Case Squad as the series ends