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All Episodes of Cagney & Lacey

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All 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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Season 1

  • You Call This Plain Clothes? (aka Bang, Bang, You're Dead)
    7.2/10133 votes

    You Call This Plain Clothes? (aka Bang, Bang, You're Dead)

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/25/1982

    The detectives again go undercover as prostitutes

    Director: Georg Stanford Brown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Pop Used to Work Chinatown
    7.2/1089 votes

    Pop Used to Work Chinatown

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/1/1982

    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.

    Director: Georg Stanford Brown

    Writer: Brian McKay

  • Beyond the Golden Door
    7.6/1081 votes

    Beyond the Golden Door

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/8/1982

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

    Director: Reza Badiyi

    Writer: Unknown

  • Street Scene
    6.8/1076 votes

    Street Scene

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/15/1982

    Hispanic gang member is killed.

    Director: Ray Danton

    Writer: Unknown

  • Suffer the Children
    7.8/1072 votes

    Suffer the Children

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/22/1982

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

    Director: Ray Danton

    Writer: Paul Laurence

  • Better Than Equal
    7.8/1075 votes

    Better Than Equal

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/29/1982

    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.

    Director: Ray Danton

    Writer: Unknown