8.6/1057 votes#1 - 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
6.4/1053 votes#2 - Culture Clash
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1986
An Islamic girl from a very devout family wants to be more American. No arranged marriage for her; she'd rather go to Malibu.When she turns up dead, Cagney and Lacey must face her angry family. They're also being considered for a very select task force that Cagney sees as her path to sta
Director: Ray Danton
Writer: Frank South
7.4/1050 votes#3 - Sorry, Right Number
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1986
Lacey and Isbecki are trapped in an elevator. Of course it's the hottest day of the year, and Victor is claustrophobic. The episode also features character actor Stanley Kamel as Det. Solomon
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: N/A
8.4/1055 votes#4 - 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
7.9/1057 votes#5 - Role Call
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1986
In a self-referential show, the 14th is visited by a TV star, ""Detective Deedee,"" who has permission from the brass to learn how real policemen work. She especially wants to learn from Cagney and Lacey.
Director: James Frawley
Writer: N/A
7.4/1052 votes#6 - The Zealot
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1986
An assistant D.A. has devoted his entire career to prosecuting child pornography. When he turns up dead, Cagney (who would have liked to have gotten to know him better) thinks one of those scuzzy pornographers had killed him.
Director: Francine Parker
Writer: N/A
6.9/1052 votes#7 - The Marathon
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/24/1986
The 14th precinct has to help support the annual New York City marathon. One of the (white) runners is from South Africa, and is facing death threats if she runs. Cagney and Lacey are assigned to talk her out of running but if they can't, then they must protect her.
Director: Ralph S. Singleton
Writer: N/A
7.8/1047 votes#8 - Rites of Passage
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 12/1/1986
A college sorority initiate falls off a building. The detectives suspect a hazing prank gone sour, but the sorority sisters won't talk.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
7.3/1053 votes#9 - Revenge
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 12/8/1986
When someone who Petrie held a grudge against is killed, Marcus is the suspect. In the B plot, Chris dates a reporter and discovers that he has a hidden agenda.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/1047 votes#10 - To Thine Own Self Be True (aka The Rapist II)
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/1986
In a sequel to episode #69, Sara Jones goes on trial. She wants Cagney to back up her story, but Cagney won't do it.
Director: Helaine Head
Writer: N/A
7.9/1048 votes#11 - Cost of Living
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 1/12/1987
In a sequel to episode #75, Mansfield goes on trial. He's done something clever - he's hired David Keeler to defend him. David explains how principled he is. Chris tells him to go to hell.
Director: Al Waxman
Writer: Frank South, Joe Viola
7.3/1046 votes#12 - Waste Deep
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 1/19/1987
A toy company is dumping toxic wastes, and a gungho environmentalist is willing to do whatever it takes to get Cagney and Lacey to investigate.
Director: Claudia Weill
Writer: N/A
7.9/1048 votes#13 - Favors
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 1/26/1987
The detectives go after a corrupt judge. but he has an ""in"" - he's an old friend of Charlie Cagney's. Cagney also has to do the performance reviews, and smoke flies when she doesn't give Lacey top ranking.
Director: Al Waxman
Writer: N/A
6.2/1045 votes#14 - Ahead of the Game
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 2/2/1987
Story by Allison Hock. The crime story hits close to home here. The Laceys are burglarized and Mary Beth must deal with Detective Dupnick from Queens. Of course, she's neglected all the precautions that she lectures civilians about. Cagney attends the Emerald Ball, while dealing with a high school athlete who dropped dead of steroid overuse
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1047 votes#15 - Easy Does It
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 2/9/1987
The detectives go undercover at Alcoholics Anonymous to find out who's holding up AA meetings. At a session for co-dependents they meet Donna, Charlie's girlfriend, who's figured out that Charlie's an alcoholic.
Director: Helaine Head
Writer: N/A
8.0/1049 votes#16 - To Sir, With Love
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 2/16/1987
Story by Sandy Sprung and Marcy Vosburgh. Samuels is getting the Distinguished Service Award at a banquet. All Cagney and Lacey have to do is plan the banquet, coordinate the entertainment, get the balloons, and make cannoli. Very funny, especially the cannoli scene.
Director: Ray Danton
Writer: N/A
7.5/1053 votes#17 - Divine Couriers
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 2/23/1987
A spiritualist has a new gimmick. She charges people to get messages to their dead loved ones by hiring terminally ill people as messengers. The funny thing is that everyone except Cagney and Lacey are happy with the setup.
Director: Sharron Miller
Writer: N/A
8.3/1063 votes#18 - 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
6.8/1048 votes#19 - Special Treatment
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 3/16/1987
Lacey participates in a protest march against nuclear weapons. She gets arrested and thrown to the tender mercies of Detective Dupnick.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: N/A
8.3/1050 votes#20 - 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
8.6/1069 votes#21 - 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
8.8/1085 votes#22 - 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
The Best Episodes of Cagney & Lacey Season 6
Every episode of Cagney & Lacey Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Cagney & Lacey Season 6!
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
Season 6 Ratings Summary
"Schedule One" is the best rated episode of "Cagney & Lacey" season 6. It scored 8.6/10 based on 57 votes. Directed by Alexander Singer and written by N/A, it aired on 9/29/1986. This episode is rated 2.2 points higher than the second-best, "Culture Clash".