Cagney & Lacey
is an American television series that first aired on the CBS
television network for seven seasons. A police procedural, the show
stars Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly as New York City police detectives
who led very different lives: Christine Cagney (Gless) was a
single, career-minded woman, while Mary Beth Lacey (Daly) was a
married working mother.The two main actresses combined to win the
Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama six straight years in a row,
a winning streak unmatched in any series.
Of NOTE:Loretta Swit plays the role of Christine Cagney in the
original television movie (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 replaced by Sharon Gless because CBS deemed Foster too
aggressive and too likely to be perceived as a lesbian by the
viewers.CBS executives hoped that Sharon Gless would portray
Christine Cagney as more conventionally "feminine" and attempted to
pressure the producers to remake Christine into a more
"high-class", snobbish woman from wealthy parents. Barney
Rosenzweig and Barbara Corday stood their ground, refusing to
change Christine Cagney from a tough, witty, working-class
woman.
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