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The Best Episodes of Cagney & Lacey

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The Best Episodes of Cagney & Lacey

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...

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  1. Background image for One of Our Own
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - One of Our Own

    S2:E2

    A uniform cop is shot in a restaurant. The assumption is that the cop was shot because he knew too much, but it was actually mistaken identity. The B story is that the precinct is going to field a softball team. Of course, Cagney wants to play and drags Lacey along. Isbecki is the captain and tries to keep them out but eventually has to allow them in when he learns that the team must include both men and women

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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Beauty Burglars

    S2:E3

    A group of baddies is preying on wealthy patrons of beauty shops. They get into these shops by pretending to be policemen. C&L get to head up the task force, and Cagney befriends one of the victims

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    Director:Reza Badiyi
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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - High Steel

    S2:E4

    A construction worker falls to his death, and everyone thinks it's an accident, including Isbecki, who lets the ladies take over the case. You see, Harvey knew the fellow, and he thinks there's something funny. It turns out that the victim was on the take, and Harvey and Mary Beth go out to the construction site to inspect first hand.

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    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Unknown
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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Hot Line

    S2:E5

    A group of unrelated stranglings has the NYPD very worried. Turns out all the women work for telephone erotic hotlines. There's a very funny scene where C&L go to investigate and the hotline manager thinks they're looking for work.

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    Director:Leo Penn
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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Internal Affairs

    S2:E6

    The 14th precinct has an informer in its midst. The undercover agents working on a truck hijacking are getting exposed. IAD ""asks"" C&L to investigate, since they're ""outsiders."" When Cagney refuses, the IAD lieutenant smirkily tells her that Charlie was on the take when he was a cop. All they turn up is that LaGuardia has a girlfriend and Samuels is seeing aa psychiatrist because of the effect of his divorce.

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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Mr. Lonelyhearts

    S2:E7

    A farmer from Vermont comes in looking for his wife, who has disappeared in New York City. Seems that she has ""married"" several men, and is collecting money from all of them.

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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Conduct Unbecoming

    S2:E8

    C&L and another detective are working on a case involving some illegal weapons. The catch is that the third detective has just had his picture turn up in a gay magazine. Is he gay? Will he be suspended before he helps C&L catch the bad guy?

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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Hopes and Dreams

    S2:E11

    A gang of thieves have an intriguing modus operandi. They wait until a family is at a funeral and then break in and steal everything. One of the victims is a crippled girl.

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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - The Grandest Jewel Thief of Them All

    S2:E12

    Albert Grand is the most famous jewel thief in the world. He has even written a book about his career. Can the elegant dog lover who stops a petty crime really be the great thief?

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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Open and Shut Case

    S2:E14

    Lacey is the main witness in an open-and-shut case, only it isn't that open-and-shut. in the ""B"" story, a witness in an old rape case has to testify. The defendants' strategy is stall and stall, and C&L have to support her when she wants to quit

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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Burn Out

    S2:E17

    The ""A"" story is that Cagney goes undercover as a nun to investigate the theft of drugs from a hospital. The ""B"" story is that she goes alone because Lacey has gone off AWOL. After her vacation is canceled at the last minute, she just says, ""the hell with it"" and disappears

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    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Let Them Eat Pretzels
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Let Them Eat Pretzels

    S2:E19

    A poor Jewish man is hit by a car, and we know who did it. The problem is that he's the son of an Arabian diplomat, and safe as long as he stays in the embassy. After he escapes twice, the women had better work something out.

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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - The Gang's All Here

    S2:E20

    To celebrate Petri's promotion to detective first grade, the gang goes out to celebrate. Alas, they get robbed (including their guns and shields), and have to restore face. LaGuardia is so upset that he threatens to quit.

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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - A Cry for Help

    S2:E21

    The "A" story is that a con man is doing very well, but when he's arrested as he's fleeing, there's nothing of value in his suitcase. The "B" story is that one of the cops working with them, who Mary Beth has known since academy days, is beating his wife.

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    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Matinee

    S3:E1

    A wealthy Westchester housewife is found dead in the city. Since Cagney comes from a well- off family in Westchester, we get to learn a little bit about her background. The ""B"" story is that Samuels' son David gets arrested for car theft, and relations between the two are very strained

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    Director:Karen Arthur
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    8.8/10(86 votes)

    #16 - Turn, Turn, Turn (2)

    S6:E22

    In the B plot, Lacey rescues a child from a burning car and then has to return the child to the proper mother.

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    8.7/10(57 votes)

    #17 - Who Says It's Fair (2)

    S4:E17

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    Director:Ray Danton
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.7/10(80 votes)

    #18 - The Gimp

    S5:E15

    Handicapped people are being robbed, and a wheelchair activist wants the NYPD to do something about it. Cagney goes undercover by appearing as a handicapped individual in a wheelchair and falls for the activist.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    8.6/10(63 votes)

    #19 - Parting Shots

    S5:E24

    A labor leader is killed. Once again, the victim seems to have led a blameless life, yet someone wanted him dead. In the B plot, Cagney's niece (who we met in #78) comes for a visit.

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    8.6/10(61 votes)

    #20 - Schedule One

    S6:E1

    Detective Newman is just walking down the street, celebrating a successful collar, when he is shot down. A cop killed is always taken very seriously.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    8.5/10(83 votes)

    #21 - Heat

    S4:E2

    Mary Beth is taken hostage by a very dangerous man.

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    Director:Karen Arthur
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.5/10(65 votes)

    #22 - Rules of the Game

    S4:E14

    C&L think it's wonderful to be assigned to a hot case under the hot Captain Hennessey. it seems that his interest in Chris is more personal than professional. Finally, Chris announces that she will file departmental charges against him for sexual harassment.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    8.5/10(62 votes)

    #23 - Who Says It's Fair (1)

    S4:E16

    A two parter where Mary Beth discovers that she has a lump in her breast, but she refuses to talk about it or do anything about it. Chris finds out when Harvey gets worried and sneaks out to tell her. Chris finally convinces Mary Beth to see a doctor and then to get a second opinion. Meanwhile the detectives must find a missing child. Cagney thinks the kid ran away because the mother was unfit. The mother thinks that they would look harder for a white child. Finally he turns up in an underground passage and Chris goes in after him. Mary Beth goes in for her surgery, but Chris can't be there because she is taking the sergeant's exam. But she gets back in time to learn that the operation is a success

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    Director:Ray Danton
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    8.5/10(70 votes)

    #24 - Turn, Turn, Turn (1)

    S6:E21

    Charlie's drinking finally catches up with him and he goes to the Great Bar in the Sky. Chris and brother Brian send him off with a wake at Flannery's. But Chris can't handle it, and winds up dead drunk in her apartment. Only Lacey can save her and get her to AA.

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    8.4/10(67 votes)

    #25 - Stress

    S4:E15

    Cagney is a witness to a stabbing. The bad guy has the charming habit of erasing people he doesn't like, such as witnesses, and he goes after her

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    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"One of Our Own" is the best rated episode of "Cagney & Lacey". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Reza Badiyi and written by Robert Crais, April Smith, it aired on 11/1/1982. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Beauty Burglars".