My Pick for Top Ten Episodes

1. "Who Says It's Fair": Season 3. Shows numbers 51 and 562. The two parter dealt with Mary Beth Lacey discovering that she has a lump in her breast and everything that results from that discovery.

2. "Violation": Season 3, episode #56. A teenage boy is put into jail for a minor offense and ends up getting raped. A rather depressing but still important episode.

3. "The Clinic": Season 4, show #63. The detectives escort a Latino woman to an abortion clinic which is later firebombed. The episode was considered so controversial that it was not shown in some affiliates.

4. "Two Grand." : Season 3, episode #54. Concerns the very cultured thief Albert Grand. Basically a tear-jerker at the end.

5. "Greed": Season 6, show #110. This is a real clunker with the detectives being dressed up as fruits for a game show. This one is so bad it's actually good.

6. Another two-parter, "Turn, Turn, Turn": Year 5, shows #102 and 103. Cagney's father dies form his drinking; Cagney has a drinking problem and Lacey tries to get her to go to AA.

7. "The Gimp": Season 4, show #72. This is a really important show which reveals the kinds of trouble handicapped people have to go through even in matters such as getting a taxi.

8. "High Steel." Season 1, show #10. Harvey and Mary Beth work together to check out problems at a job site. If I remember this episode correctly Mary Beth has to end up climbing up a building under construction, nearly falls and panics, holding on to a girder while her mind basically goes away for a while.

9. "Do I Know You?": Season 6, show #112. Deals with date rape, and Cagney is the one raped.

10. "The Zealot." Season 5, show #93. Deals with the problems an Islamic family has culturally with their daughter and American culture.