6.2/1045 votesLoading...#1 - 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
6.4/1053 votesLoading...#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
6.4/1050 votesLoading...#3 - Video Verite
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1987
A valuable music video has been stolen, and there's some suspicious white powder about. In the meantime, Cagney's niece Bridget again visits, trying to carve out a career as a New York actress
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: N/A
6.4/1048 votesLoading...#4 - Greed
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1987
A game show is supposedly crooked. Once again, undercover work, this time as game show contestants (dressed up like fruits).
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/1047 votesLoading...#5 - 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
6.7/1043 votesLoading...#6 - Yup
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/1988
A Wall Street tycoon is burgled, and he has a lot of clout with the higher-ups. Harvey Jr. comes home for a visit, and nobody mentions the previous episode. (Rosenzweig usually does a much better job of continuity.)
Director: Nancy Malone
Writer: N/A
6.8/1057 votesLoading...#7 - Let Them Eat Pretzels
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/21/1983
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.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: Peter Lefcourt
6.8/1051 votesLoading...#8 - Play It Again, Santa
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/23/1985
A Christmas episode, where Cagney is teamed with Newman to solve a dispute over who has rights to a song. Since Chris just had a fight with David, maybe Newman will be a romantic prospect? See Cagney dressed up as a Santa with big elf shoes on
Director: Charlotte Brown
Writer: N/A
6.8/1044 votesLoading...#9 - Capitalism
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 4/7/1986
A Cambodian lawyer who specialized in helping his fellow countrymen is killed. Further investigation reveals that he made a lot of money off other Cambodian's misfortunes.
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: N/A
6.8/1048 votesLoading...#10 - 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
6.9/1069 votesLoading...#11 - Street Scene
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/15/1982
Hispanic gang member is killed.
Director: Ray Danton
Writer: N/A
6.9/1052 votesLoading...#12 - 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
7.0/1066 votesLoading...#13 - Hopes and Dreams
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/10/1983
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/1044 votesLoading...#14 - Shadow of a Doubt
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 1/26/1988
Cagney and Lacey go undercover at a computer manufacturer. But the company has random drug testing and Chris flunks it. Of course, David argues that this is a violation of her civil rights.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: N/A
7.1/10118 votesLoading...#15 - 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: N/A
7.1/1048 votesLoading...#16 - The Man Who Shot Trotsky
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 3/3/1986
In a sequel to #62,Cagney and a back-on-duty-again Lacey go after Mansfield again. Cagney's informant is a street-smart Hispanic youth - is he tough enough to handle Mansfield?
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: Peter Lefcourt, Kathryn Ford
7.1/1046 votesLoading...#17 - Land of the Free
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 2/23/1988
A Salvadoran refugee is murdered. Some people say he ran drugs, others say he was a saint. In the B story, Chris meets Nick the plumber at an AA meeting.
Director: Stephen Macht
Writer: N/A
7.2/1079 votesLoading...#18 - 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: N/A
7.2/1049 votesLoading...#19 - Extradition
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 5/5/1986
Cagney and Lacey get a sweetheart trip - to Los Angeles to bring back a bail jumper
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: N/A
7.2/1049 votesLoading...#20 - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1987
Mature"" prostitutes are getting bumped off, so our heroines go undercover to investigate. Merry Clayton joins the cast as Detective Verna Dee Jordan. Isbecki just adores having a woman partner.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1052 votesLoading...#21 - Lottery
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/1985
After the New York State Lottery has paid out millions, here comes another ticket. Somebody has a fake, but who? In the B story, Harvey and Mary Beth must face an IRS audit
Director: James Frawley
Writer: N/A
7.3/1054 votesLoading...#22 - Exit Stage Centre
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 3/10/1986
An actress in a play has died, and it appears to be suicide. However, when the ladies start digging around, they discover that everybody in the play hates everybody else - plenty of reason for murder. We learn that Cagney tried acting in college.
Director: James Frawley
Writer: N/A
7.3/1052 votesLoading...#23 - A Safe Place
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 5/12/1986
A thief gets more than he expected, when the goods include plutonium. He needs to be caught quickly, so that his radiation sickness can be treated
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: N/A
7.3/1053 votesLoading...#24 - 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
7.3/1046 votesLoading...#25 - 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
The Worst Episodes of Cagney & Lacey
Every episode of Cagney & Lacey ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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
Worst Episodes Summary
"Ahead of the Game" is the worst rated episode of "Cagney & Lacey". It scored 6.2/10 based on 45 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/2/1987. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Culture Clash".