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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!

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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 make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 1 - Schedule One
    8.7/10(65 votes)

    #1 - 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.

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 2 - Culture Clash
    6.4/10(58 votes)

    #2 - Culture Clash

    S6:E2

    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

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  3. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 3 - Sorry, Right Number
    7.5/10(55 votes)

    #3 - Sorry, Right Number

    S6:E3

    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:Unknown

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  4. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 4 - Disenfranchised (aka Incest)
    8.5/10(60 votes)

    #4 - Disenfranchised (aka Incest)

    S6:E4

    (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:Daniel Freudenberger

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  5. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 5 - Role Call
    7.9/10(62 votes)

    #5 - Role Call

    S6:E5

    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:Unknown

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  6. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 6 - The Zealot
    7.5/10(58 votes)

    #6 - The Zealot

    S6:E6

    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:Unknown

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  7. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 7 - The Marathon
    6.9/10(57 votes)

    #7 - The Marathon

    S6:E7

    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:Unknown

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  8. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 8 - Rites of Passage
    7.9/10(52 votes)

    #8 - Rites of Passage

    S6:E8

    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:Unknown

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  9. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 9 - Revenge
    7.3/10(61 votes)

    #9 - Revenge

    S6:E9

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 10 - To Thine Own Self Be True (aka The Rapist II)
    6.6/10(52 votes)

    #10 - To Thine Own Self Be True (aka The Rapist II)

    S6:E10

    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:Unknown

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  11. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 11 - Cost of Living
    8.0/10(54 votes)

    #11 - Cost of Living

    S6:E11

    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
    Writers:Frank South, Joe Viola

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  12. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 12 - Waste Deep
    7.4/10(51 votes)

    #12 - Waste Deep

    S6:E12

    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:Unknown

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  13. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 13 - Favors
    8.0/10(53 votes)

    #13 - Favors

    S6:E13

    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:Unknown

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  14. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 14 - Ahead of the Game
    6.3/10(50 votes)

    #14 - Ahead of the Game

    S6:E14

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 15 - Easy Does It
    7.6/10(52 votes)

    #15 - Easy Does It

    S6:E15

    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:Unknown

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  16. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 16 - To Sir, With Love
    8.0/10(57 votes)

    #16 - To Sir, With Love

    S6:E16

    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:Unknown

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  17. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 17 - Divine Couriers
    7.6/10(59 votes)

    #17 - Divine Couriers

    S6:E17

    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:Unknown

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  18. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 18 - Right to Remain Silent
    8.4/10(69 votes)

    #18 - Right to Remain Silent

    S6:E18

    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:Unknown

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  19. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 19 - Special Treatment
    7.0/10(54 votes)

    #19 - Special Treatment

    S6:E19

    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:Unknown

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  20. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 20 - Happiness is a Warm Gun
    8.4/10(56 votes)

    #20 - Happiness is a Warm Gun

    S6:E20

    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:Unknown

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  21. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 21 - Turn, Turn, Turn (1)
    8.7/10(78 votes)

    #21 - 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.

    Director:Sharron Miller
    Writer:Georgia Jeffries

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  22. Cagney & Lacey Season 6 Episode 22 - Turn, Turn, Turn (2)
    8.9/10(94 votes)

    #22 - 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.

    Director:Sharron Miller
    Writers:Jonathan Estrin, Shelley List

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"Schedule One" is the best rated episode of "Cagney & Lacey" season 6. It scored 8.7/10 based on 65 votes. Directed by Alexander Singer and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/29/1986. This episode is rated 2.3 points higher than the second-best, "Culture Clash".