Two women cops working twice as hard for half the glory, twice the excitement!
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 time.
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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 time.
Season 3 episodes
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A wealthy Westchester housewife is found dead in the city. Since Cagney comes from a well- off family in Westchester, we get to learn a little bit about her background. The ""B"" story is that Samuels' son David gets arrested for car theft, and relations between the two are very strained
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Directed by Karen ArthurWritten by Chris AbbottGuest stars Fred Grandy, Barbara Tarbuck, Bibi Besch, Armin Shimerman, Matthew Barry, Robert Hirschfeld, Ellen Tobie, Shanit Keter
The uniforms are on strike, and the detectives must wear uniforms and go back on the street, all the while solving the case of the ""Don Juan Strangler."" This is the first episode in which Cagney plays poker.
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Directed by John PattersonWritten by Peter LefcourtGuest stars Paul Gleason, Jonelle Allen, Ernie Sabella
The ladies happen on a porno movie filming, and the next day the leading man dies. The female star would make a great witness, but she doesn't want to talk
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Directed by James FrawleyWritten by Peter LefcourtGuest stars Leo Rossi, Kay Lenz, Paul Freeman
This time it's clear who the bad guy is. But he's being pursued for bail jumping by a bounty hunter. The bounty hunter not only has a legal right, if he can find him, but he makes a point of irritating Cagney.
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Directed by Bill DukeGuest stars Tony La Torre, Brian Dennehy
When an abandoned infant is turned in, C&L go to work on a baby-broker scheme. The baby is deaf, and Mary Beth wants to take it home for child #3. (This was shown before Tyne Daly's pregnancy.) In the B plot, Cagney is dating a glamorous playwright, but he doesn't think much of her career.
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Directed by John PattersonGuest stars Tony La Torre, Johnny Haymer, Estelle Getty, Carolyn Seymour, George D. Wallace, James Laurenson, Rose Portillo
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
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Directed by Joel OlianskyGuest stars Jenny Gago, John Lehne, Dick O'Neill
The crime story is a sequel to #16 (slumlord trying to get rid of tenants.) The witness has died, since the defense strategy is to stall, so C&L have to find new witnesses.
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Directed by Karen ArthurGuest stars Susan French, Georg Stanford Brown, Miguel Ferrer
