Cagney and Lacey

Cagney and Lacey Fiction

We have a number of excellent fictional stories, most in script form, on this site. I am always looking for more quality fiction like we have, so if you have a story/script you've written, go ahead and send it to me.

An index to the stories is here.

Information on Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly

Information on Sharon Gless

Information on Tyne Daly

Articles about the show and/or the actresses

2001

• Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America 2001

1999

• Deciding What We Watch: Taste, Decency, and Media Ethics in the UK and the USA 1999
• Feminist Phoenix: The Rise and Fall of a Feminist Counterculture 1999
• How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS 1999

1998

• A Philosophy of Mass Art 1998
• Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood 1998

1997

• Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader 1997

1996

• Television Today and Tomorrow: It Won't Be What You Think 1996
• Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement since 1970 1996

1995

• "Cagney and Lacey Stars Upset at CBS" Oct. 25, 1995
• Article on Sharon Gless from Lesbian Times, July, 1995
• You loved the show? We're sorry, it's history; June 6, 1995
• Women in Control?The Role of Women in Law Enforcement, 1995
• "Back on the Beat: Catching Up With Cagney and Lacey",Ladies' Home Journal, May, 1995
• "Despite changes, Cagney & Lacey retain appeal", May 5, 1995
• Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness 1995
• NOW rally: Protest against physical and "political" violence, 4-10-95 from The Abortion Report
• Televisuality: Bstyle, Crisis, and Authority in American Television 1995

1994

• Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception, 1994
• "Cagney and Lacey return in a bloated reunion"; Nov. 5, 1994
• Article from L.A. Times, Sept.4, 1994
• On Becoming a Leader 1994
• People Magazine review of The Return movie, Nov. 7, 1994
• New York magazine, November 7, 1994 review of The Return movie
• "When Cagney Met Lacey (II), People magazine, Nov. 7, 1994

1992

• Engendered Fiction: Analysing Gender in the Production and Reception of Texts 1992

1991

• Women Watching Television: Gender, Class, and Generation in the American Television Experience 1991
• The Mass Media in Liberal Democratic Societies 1991

1990

• Making Television: Authorship and the Production Process 1990
• Target, Prime Time: Advocacy Groups and the Struggle over Entertainment Television 1990
• Television and the Crisis of Democracy 1990
• Meanings of the Medium: Perspectives on the Art of Television 1990
• Communication and Health: Systems Perspective 1990
• Gender Politics and Mtv: Voicing the Difference 1990

1989

• Peace: Meanings, Politics, Strategies 1989

1988

• "Cagney and Lacey win Quality TV award"; July 24, 1988
• "Rosenzweig to leave Cagney and Lacey"; January 30, 1988
• "Why I Consider Cagney & Lacey the Best Show on TV" by Gloria Steinem; TV Guide, January 18, 1988
• "Steinem likes Cagney & Lacey" Jan. 12, 1988

1987

• Enduring Values: Women in Popular Culture 1987
• The Rhetorics of Popular Culture: Advertising, Advocacy, and Entertainment, 1987
• Environmental Protection in the United States Industry, Agencies Environmentalists 1987
• People magazine article, Oct. 5, 1987: "In a shocker show, Cagney and Lacey tests limits with the most vicious racial slurs ever heard on TV"
• "Preview of Cagney and Lacey Denied in HowardBeach Trial"; Sept. 9, 1987
• He Knows It's Not Cagney & Lacey & Samuels, T. V. Guide, June 13, 1987
• "Show made its point forcefully"; May 15, 1987
• "Tonight's No. 100 for Cagney and Lacey" March 9, 1987
• Ms. magazine January, 1987: "Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly"

  1986

• People magazine article Dec. 1, 1986: "As an actor or odds maker, Cagney and Lacey's John Karlen is simply perfecta"
• "NBC, Cagney and Lacey big winners at Emmy awards"; Sept. 22, 1986
• "TV Keeps a Woman Placed in the Home"; March 14, 1986
• "Cagney and Lacey Handcuff Stereotypes" March 14, 1986

1985

• TV Genres: A Handbook and Reference Guide 1985
• People magazine article, November 25, 1985: "Cagney and Lacey creators Barbara Corday and Barney Rosenzweig mix cops, controversy and marriage"
• "Right to Life's bad week"; Nov. 15, 1985
• "TV shows on AIDS, abortion get calls; Nov. 13, 1985
• Pro-life groups protest CBS show, Nov. 12, 1985
• "Anti-abortion group asks CBS to pull Cagney show, Nov. 7, 1985
• Anti-abortion wants episode of Cagney and Lacey kept off the air
• Cagney and Lacey, Sept. 23, 1985
• Article from New York Times magazine, Sept. 22, 1985: "The Pregnant Detective"
• "Cagney and Lacey come back winners"; May 30, 1985
• The Double Lives of Cagney and Lacey, McCall's, April, 1985
• Article from People magazine, Feb. 11, 1985: "A Method in the Madness: Cagney and Lacey grapples with cancer in a grueling, rewarding episode"
• TV Guide article Feb. 2-8, 1985 "Can Lady Cops Really Do The Job?"

  1984

• Article from Vogue, August, 1984
• "Daly, Gless Build Army of Fans"; June 16, 1984
• Article from Ms. April, 1984: "The Rise and Fall-And Rise of TV's 'Cagney and Lacey""
• Article from L.A. Times, March 19, 1984
• "Cagney and Lacey are back by popular demand" March 18, 1984
• "Cagney & Lacey back on the beat" March 18, 1984
• "Mail calls for Cagney and Lacey revival, Jan 18, 1984
• "Protests Revive Cagney and Lacey" Jan. 14, 1984

1983

• "Cagney & Lacey" filming starts", Dec. 31, 1983
• Article from L.A. Times, Dec. 2, 1983
• Article from TV Guide Oct. 8, 1983
• Article from L.A. Times, Sept. 24, 1983
• "Cagney & Lacey lead" Aug. 24, 1983
• "Cagney and Lacey bolster CBS; Aug. 24, 1983
• Article about Meg Foster, Aug. 19, 1983
• "Who was Cagney before Sharon Gless?" June 30, 1983
• "Producers Mourning Cagney, Lacey Death"; May 24, 1983
• "Tyne Daly stumps to save her show".June 30, 1983

1982

• "Cagney and Lacey is second"; July 1, 1982
• Article from L.A. Times, June 23, 1982
• Article from L.A. Times, April 11,1982
• Article from L.A. Times, March 25, 1982
• "Cagney and Lacey series looks promising"; April 15, 1982

1981

• Article from Ms. magazine, October, 1981: "Can Women Be Buddies-Under Pressure? And Have Laughs and Adventures Besides? Television Execs Said No-But Here's What Happened"
• "Cagney and Lacey pure art"; Oct. 9, 1981
• "CBS airs drama about team of female cops"; Oct. 8, 1981

Other material

• Information from John Riggle
• Article from a German magazine
• Les Brown's Encyclopedia of Television entry
• Encyclopedia of Television, Cable, and Video entry
• Total Television entry on the show
• Cagney and Lacey entry from The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows
• The Trials of Rosie O'Neill entry from above
• Judge's Cop Wife was model for Cagney & Lacey
• Information on the episode where Cagney is raped
• Cagney is a cop for all seasons
• Causes that the actresses are involved in
• Awards Cagney & Lacey
has won.
• List of awards provided by Scott Wicker (thanks, Scott!)
• Cast list for the series and movies
• Other Cagney & Lacey photos
• My choice of top 10 episodes
• Angela Hickin's list of her top 10 episodes
• Christine Cagney: The Doctor Who of Crime
• The Cagney & Lacey novelizations
• My review of the book Defining Women:Television and the Case of Cagney and Lacey

Cagney and Lacey photos

Photos

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