Cagney & Lacey

Cagney & Lacey

Two female police detectives cooperate with each other both in their professions and in their personal lives.

Genre: CrimeDramaMystery

Cast:Tyne DalySharon GlessAl WaxmanMartin KoveJohn KarlenSidney CluteCarl LumblyHarvey AtkinTroy W. SlatenTony La TorrePaul ManteeDavid EisenRobert HegyesJo CordayBeverley FavertyDick O'NeillBarry LawsStephen Macht


1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ On the Street

Mon, Sep 30, 1985

Chris and Mary Beth try to convince a teenage runaway, who's shunned her family's wealth and privilege for a life on the streets, to help them convict her pimp.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ Ordinary Hero

Mon, Oct 7, 1985

Cagney and Lacey feel for the key witness in an upcoming trial, an illegal alien whose reward for his help will be deportation upon the trial's conclusion.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ The Psychic

Mon, Oct 21, 1985

Cagney doubts the abilities of a psychic who's been hired to locate a missing woman by her family.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ Lottery

Mon, Oct 28, 1985

When a lottery jackpot has one more claimant than there should be, Cagney and Lacey try to find out who's got the counterfeit ticket. Meanwhile, the Laceys prepare for an IRS audit.

5Season 5

S5.E5 ∙ Entrapment

Mon, Nov 4, 1985

Mary Beth faces an ethical dilemma when she has to choose between supporting Chris' claims against a known drug dealer, or admitting she knows nothing about it.

6Season 5

S5.E6 ∙ The Clinic

Mon, Nov 11, 1985

When a firebomb at an abortion clinic kills a patient, it ignites a debate over whether the death of a fetus constitutes a second murder.

7Season 5

S5.E7 ∙ Mothers & Sons

Mon, Nov 25, 1985

A mother's alibi for her son stands in the way of criminal charges, despite other compelling evidence. Meanwhile, Mary Beth's son gets on the wrong side of the law himself.

8Season 5

S5.E8 ∙ Filial Duty

Mon, Dec 2, 1985

Years of drinking finally put Chris' father into the hospital. Meanwhile, Mary Beth's pregancy forces her to make changes to her work routine.

9Season 5

S5.E9 ∙ Old Ghosts

Mon, Dec 9, 1985

Chris is accused of being a coward when a robbery suspect eludes her in a chase. Meanwhile, her brother, Brian, comes from California to check on their father.

10Season 5

S5.E10 ∙ Power

Mon, Dec 16, 1985

Chris gets to fill in for Lt. Samuels as watch commander, but dislikes that one of her first assignments is to force Mary Beth onto maternity leave.

11Season 5

S5.E11 ∙ Play It Again, Santa

Mon, Dec 23, 1985

Cagney and Newman work a case involving music rights issues.

12Season 5

S5.E12 ∙ The Rapist

Mon, Jan 6, 1986

Mary Beth's energetic replacement turns vigilante when she angers over the time it's taking to get to arrest a suspected rapist.

13Season 5

S5.E13 ∙ Act of Conscience

Mon, Jan 13, 1986

The new replacement for Mary Beth comes with a history the 14th Precinct doesn't like--he broke the blue wall of silence when other police were taking bribes, and the Desk Sergeant is taking bets on how long his stay with them will be.

14Season 5

S5.E14 ∙ DWI

Mon, Jan 20, 1986

While running the night shift, a case of DWI begins to make Chris confront her own demons with the bottle.

15Season 5

S5.E15 ∙ The Gimp

Mon, Jan 27, 1986

An advocate for the handicapped demands something be done about a rash of robberies against the disabled. Chris goes undercover in a wheelchair and finds herself smitten with the activist.

16Season 5

S5.E16 ∙ Family Connections

Mon, Feb 10, 1986

Chris races to get a laboring Mary Beth to the hospital before the baby comes out. Meanwhile, she has to deal with her father's new girlfriend.

17Season 5

S5.E17 ∙ Post Partum

Mon, Feb 17, 1986

Chris tries to help a West Point cadet who refuses to help himself avoid court martial due to his honor code. Mary Beth receives a visit from her father, who abandoned her and her mother when she was little.

18Season 5

S5.E18 ∙ The Man Who Shot Trotsky

Mon, Mar 3, 1986

With Mary Beth back from maternity leave, she and Chris again go after drug dealer Mansfield, this time with the help of a young Hispanic informant.

19Season 5

S5.E19 ∙ Exit Stage Center

Mon, Mar 10, 1986

The apparent suicide of a stage actress starts to look like murder when Cagney and Lacey discover everyone involved in the play seems to have a motive.

20Season 5

S5.E20 ∙ Capitalism

Mon, Apr 7, 1986

When a lawyer who has made a living helping his fellow Cambodians winds up murdered, Chris and Mary Beth learn he may have been profitting from misfortunes too much. In the meantime, Chris parts ways with her car.

21Season 5

S5.E21 ∙ Extradition

Mon, May 5, 1986

Chris and Mary Beth go to California to bring back a defendant who skipped on his bail.

22Season 5

S5.E22 ∙ A Safe Place

Mon, May 12, 1986

Cagney and Lacey race against time to catch a thief, whose latest haul included plutonium, before his radiation sickness becomes terminal.

23Season 5

S5.E23 ∙ Model Citizens

Sun, May 25, 1986

To find the murderer of a labor leader, Cagney and Lacey must first find out why anyone would want the apparently squeaky-clean man dead. In the meantime, Cagney gets a visit from her niece.

24Season 5

S5.E24 ∙ Parting Shots

Mon, May 26, 1986

The 14th Precinct suffers the loss of one of their own, as Cagney and Lacey work to find out who shot and killed Det. Newman.