Cagney & Lacey
| Cagney & Lacey | |
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| Genre |
Police procedural buddy cop |
| Created by |
Barbara Avedon Barbara Corday |
| Starring |
Tyne Daly Sharon Gless (Seasons 2–7) Meg Foster (Season 1) Al Waxman John Karlen Carl Lumbly Martin Kove Sidney Clute (Seasons 1-5) Robert Hegyes Harvey Atkin |
| Theme music composer | Bill Conti |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 125 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Barney Rosenzweig |
| Producer(s) | Steve Brown Terry Louise Fisher Georgia Jeffries Peter Lefcourt Richard M. Rosenbloom Harry R. Sherman Ralph S. Singleton April Smith Joseph Stern |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 45–48 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Mace Neufeld Productions Filmways Television Orion Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | March 25, 1982 – May 16, 1988 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Cagney & Lacey: The Return (1994) |
| Website | |
Cagney & Lacey is an American television series that originally aired on the CBS television network for seven seasons from March 25, 1982 to May 16, 1988. A police procedural, the show stars Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless as New York City police detectives who lead very different lives: Christine Cagney (Gless) was a single, career-minded woman, while Mary Beth Lacey (Daly) was a married working mother. The series was set in a fictionalized version of Manhattan's 14th Precinct (known as "Midtown South"). For six consecutive years, one of the two lead actresses won the Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama (four wins for Daly, two for Gless), a winning streak unmatched in any major category by a show.
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 the title for legal reasons). Avedon & Corday wrote the script. No studio wanted to make the film, so Corday considered taking it to television. Rosenzweig took the script, removed the main plot (leaving only the character development), and took it to all networks, but only CBS picked it up.
Actress Loretta Swit played the role of Christine Cagney in the original television movie (October 1981), but she 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. The movie was then picked up as a series, first airing with six episodes as a midseason replacement in the spring of 1982, with Meg Foster playing the role of Cagney. The show was then picked up for a regular season beginning with the 1982–83 season, but Foster was then replaced by Sharon Gless because CBS deemed Foster too aggressive and too likely to be perceived as a lesbian by the viewers.
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