TV Genres: A Handbook and Reference Guide
by Robert S. Alley, Brian G. Rose; Greenwood Press, 1985
Women cops fared almost as poorly as southerners in the late seventies. In
"Dog and Cat," plainclothes veteran Jack Ramsey and rookie J. Z. Kane were the
contentious partners of the show's title. Brenda Vaccaro unsuccessfully tried to
portray some of the more serious difficulties of balancing career with the more
traditional female roles in "Dear Detective" and vanished after a month. It wasn't
until "Cagney and Lacey" brought a new twist to the old dilemma of a by-the-book
cop working with an individualist by making them both women that it looked as if
women had begun to find a niche for themselves in the police genre.
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