8.8/1085 votesLoading...#1 - Turn, Turn, Turn (2)
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 3/30/1987
In the B plot, Lacey rescues a child from a burning car and then has to return the child to the proper mother.
Director: Sharron Miller
Writer: Shelley List, Jonathan Estrin
8.7/1087 votesLoading...#2 - Burn Out
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/7/1983
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
Director: Don Weis
Writer: N/A
8.7/1055 votesLoading...#3 - Who Says It's Fair (2)
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/18/1985
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Director: Ray Danton
Writer: N/A
8.7/1078 votesLoading...#4 - The Gimp
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/1986
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.
Director: Sharron Miller
Writer: N/A
8.6/1080 votesLoading...#5 - Heat
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/22/1984
Mary Beth is taken hostage by a very dangerous man.
Director: Karen Arthur
Writer: N/A
8.6/1061 votesLoading...#6 - Who Says It's Fair (1)
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/11/1985
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
Director: Ray Danton
Writer: Patricia Green
8.6/1059 votesLoading...#7 - Parting Shots
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/26/1986
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.
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Writer: N/A
8.6/1057 votesLoading...#8 - Schedule One
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1986
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.
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: N/A
8.6/1069 votesLoading...#9 - Turn, Turn, Turn (1)
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 3/30/1987
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.
Director: Sharron Miller
Writer: Georgia Jeffries
8.6/1053 votesLoading...#10 - Friendly Fire
Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 4/5/1988
In 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.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Shelley List, Jonathan Estrin
8.5/1058 votesLoading...#11 - Partners
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 5/7/1984
Cagney gets show by a bad guy early in the episode. Not to worry, she solves the case from her hospital bed. She has to, because Mary Beth gets stuck with a real dweeb as a replacement. In a role reversal, Mary Beth is the ""hot dog"" and the guy is only interested in getting home on time
Director: Joel Oliansky
Writer: N/A
8.5/1063 votesLoading...#12 - Rules of the Game
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/28/1985
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.
Director: Sharron Miller
Writer: N/A
8.5/1059 votesLoading...#13 - Do I Know You?
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 1/5/1988
Brad 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
Director: Sharron Miller
Writer: N/A
8.4/1072 votesLoading...#14 - Internal Affairs
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/29/1982
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.
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: N/A
8.4/1066 votesLoading...#15 - Stress
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/4/1985
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
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: N/A
8.4/1069 votesLoading...#16 - On the Street
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1985
A teenager has run away from her wealthy home, preferring prostitution to Princeton. Cagney and Lacey need her to testify against her pimp
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: N/A
8.4/1062 votesLoading...#17 - Family Connections
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/10/1986
This is sometimes referred to as Cagney & Lacey's ""Lucy and Ethel"" episode for its comedic touches. At last, Lacey has baby Alice. (It did seem like the longest pregnancy on record, didn't it?) Cagney has to drive her to the hospital in the obligatory get-me-to-the-hospital-on-time scene. Chris has another problem - Charlie has a girlfriend, Donna.
Director: James Frawley
Writer: N/A
8.4/1055 votesLoading...#18 - Disenfranchised (aka Incest)
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1986
(Also given to me as ""Incest."") A girl says that their father is molesting the younger daughter, who is too young to testify. How does she know? Because she was molested herself. Cagney and Lacey get the children away from their parents, but have to split up the girls to do so.
Director: James Frawley
Writer: N/A
8.3/1055 votesLoading...#19 - Lost and Found
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 2/25/1985
Cagney's car (a yellow Corvette) has been stolen and boy is she mad. She doesn't get much help from Mary Beth, who is convalescing at home and considering quitting for good. The good news is that the second half of the sergeants exam has a question about auto theft technique.The episode introduces Hector (El Vengeador). It is later learned that Cagney's nemesis Mansfield had him murdered for his role as a drug informant in the episode ""The Man Who Shot Trotsky
Director: Al Waxman
Writer: N/A
8.3/1063 votesLoading...#20 - Right to Remain Silent
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 3/9/1987
A deaf girl is suspected of murder. Could someone with such a severe handicap commit a crime like that? Also, a drunken David Keeler appears on Cagney's door step begging her forgiveness. She hadn't seen him since ""the Cost of Living"" although he left numerous messages on her answering machine.
Director: Sharron Miller
Writer: N/A
8.3/1050 votesLoading...#21 - Happiness is a Warm Gun
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 3/23/1987
This time it's Lacey's turn to get shot. She isn't hurt as badly as Cagney was, but the trauma sends them to the police psychiatrist. Lacey is saved from certain death by her bullet-proof vest.
Director: James Frawley
Writer: N/A
8.2/1077 votesLoading...#22 - High Steel
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/15/1982
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.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
8.2/1080 votesLoading...#23 - Hot Line
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/22/1982
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.
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: N/A
8.2/1075 votesLoading...#24 - Conduct Unbecoming
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/13/1982
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?
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: N/A
8.2/1066 votesLoading...#25 - Date Rape
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/21/1983
It's a rape case, but the victim knew her assailant, which makes it date rape. Cagney and Harvey think the woman asked for it; Lacey is more supportive. The ""B"" story is that the guys in the precinct are playing practical jokes such as fixing Isbecki up with a female impersonator and Samuels with a prostitute. Cagney thinks it's funny and points out that it's a great step forward for them to be included in this
Director: John Patterson
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Cagney & Lacey
Every episode of Cagney & Lacey ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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...
Genres:CrimeDrama
Network:CBS
Best Episodes Summary
"Turn, Turn, Turn (2)" is the best rated episode of "Cagney & Lacey". It scored 8.8/10 based on 85 votes. Directed by Sharron Miller and written by Shelley List, Jonathan Estrin, it aired on 3/30/1987. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Burn Out".