Season 7 • Episode 22
LatestA bank is missing some money - not much, only $100,000. The baddy offers a plea bargain - she knows who stole $100 million. Now that's worth sending Cagney and Lacey to upstate New York to hunt down the bank president. But when they find him, they discover that the real bank president is gone, and that this is an FBI agent. Our heroines narrowly escape a shootout and get offered a promotion to Major Case Squad as the series ends
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.
Acting
Daly and Gless invented chemistry, then won Emmys for it.
Writing
Female creators writing women as messy, ambitious, real.
Production
Pre-Guiliani NYC, shot on actual grimy streets.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Created by two women who'd never written TV before, after CBS executives literally said 'women don't watch police shows.' It ran seven seasons.
Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series six times between them—beating each other, mostly.
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