This award-winning series changed the face of television with its realistic portrayal of two female NYPD detectives - Mary Beth Lacey (Tyne Daley) and Christine Cagney (Sharon Gless) - fighting crime and sexism in the workplace while maintaining their personal lives. Despite their differences, working mother Lacey and career-oriented Cagney form a tight partnership that helps them solve crimes ranging from petty theft to cold-blooded murder...Cagney and Lacey are two female New York policewomen doing their job as best they can in a male-dominated police department. The weekly program was variously a "cop show", a relationship drama, and an "issues vehicle"...Cagney and Lacey must ignore their feminist sentiments when they are assigned to protect the life of a female ERA critic...
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