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Cagney & Lacey

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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.

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3.5 / 5

25th March 1982 - 16th May 1988
Producer
Georgia Jeffries
Top Cast
Tyne DalySharon GlessJohn Karlen
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You Call This Plain Clothes? (aka Bang, Bang, You're Dead) Still
You Call This Plain Clothes? (aka Bang, Bang, You're Dead)
25th March 1982

Episode 1

The detectives again go undercover as prostitutes

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Pop Used to Work Chinatown
1st April 1982

Episode 2

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.

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Beyond the Golden Door
8th April 1982

Episode 3

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

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Street Scene
15th April 1982

Episode 4

Hispanic gang member is killed.

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Suffer the Children
22nd April 1982

Episode 5

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

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Better Than Equal
29th April 1982

Episode 6

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.