Two female police detectives cooperate with each other both in their professions and in their personal lives.
Cast:Tyne Daly , Sharon Gless , Al Waxman , Martin Kove , John Karlen , Sidney Clute , Carl Lumbly , Harvey Atkin , Troy W. Slaten , Tony La Torre , Paul Mantee , David Eisen , Robert Hegyes , Jo Corday , Beverley Faverty , Dick O'Neill , Barry Laws , Stephen Macht
Cagney and Lacey come into conflict when they remember the events of the shooting of a civilian differently.
A cop accidentally gets in the line of fire of a hit man's bullet and everyone at the 14th comes together to bring him in.
Cagney and Lacey head a task force to track down a pair of burglars posing as police officers.
Lacey's husband assists the pair in cracking down on a crooked construction firm that is responsible for the death of a worker.
Cagney and Lacey try to uncover the connection between 3 strangled women and an adult telephone line.
As Cagney contends with her estranged father, she and Lacey are recruited by Internal Affairs to spy on their fellow police officers.
An elderly man asks the pair to find his young wife who has disappeared mysteriously, but when Cagney and Lacey start digging they find the wife is not who she said she was.
As the 14th Precinct eagerly awaits the results of their shared lottery ticket, Cagney and Lacey risk their careers by helping a suspended officer crack an illegal gun ring.
Christmas Eve at the 14th finds everyone eager to get home for the holidays until an escaped criminal dressed as Santa complicates matters.
Cagney becomes involved with a fellow detective who uses cocaine and must make a difficult decision whether to let it go or turn him in.
The detectives do their best to recover a stolen bike stolen from a handicapped girl, meanwhile Harvey hires a cleaning lady for Lacey.
Cagney becomes obsessed with busting a gentlemanly and famous jewel thief from years back.
When the 14th precinct is assigned another female detective, Mary Beth and Chris don't agree on whether she's qualified to be there or not.
Mary Beth is the star witness in a trial that turns out not to be the slam dunk the prosecutors thought it was. Meanwhile, Chris and Mary Beth try to convince a rape witness to not back out of testifying.
When a Jane Doe homeless lady is murdered, Chris vows to find out who she is. Meanwhile, Chris and Mary Beth shoot a recruiting commercial for the NYPD while Mary Beth is fighting a nasty cold.
A date rape investigation divides Chris, who feels the victim brought it on herself, and Mary Beth, who doesn't believe that philosophy. Chris feels honored for the girls to be let in on the male officers' practical jokes.
Chris poses as a nun as part of an investigation into missing drugs from a hospital. Meanwhile, Mary Beth vanishes after a last-minute vacation cancellation.
Isbecki becomes a hostage after Cagney and Lacey fail to back him up properly. Meanwhile, when Petrie accidentally shoots a black child, the department thinks the uproar will go away if the public sees Petrie is black, too.
Cagney and Lacey try to find a way to arrest the son of a immunized diplomat who's using his nation's embassy to avoid justice after hitting a poor man with his car.
The gang from the 14th precinct are robbed at a celebration for Petrie's promotion, and set out to bring the perpetrators to justice before they become the laughingstock of the NYPD.
A con man has to be let go because he had nothing on him when arrested, so Cagney and Lacey have to find a way to get him with the goods. Meanwhile, a fellow police academy graduate of Mary Beth's is a wife-beater.
Cagney and Lacey have a high school drug case blow up in their faces when it turns out their teenage informant is a drug pusher himself.