Cagney & Lacey seems like a joke nowadays
Don't get me wrong, I love the show, but watching it nowadays I cannot imagine that police work actually fucntions like it did on this show. I don't think there were ever cops like any of those working in the 14th pricinct. Seeing Christine Cagney running around in fashionable 80s clothing with a gun trying to catch criminals is hilarious. The "fun" everyone has around the station, joking with each other is hard to buy.
A couple of random thoughts about the show:
Last night I watched an episode from the second season in which a rookie police officer was under speculation of being gay because it was found out that he posed nude for a gay magazine. The show was handled as if being gay was a horrible thing which made me think that the writer of this episode was a bit of a homophobe. At the end of the epsiode it was also implied that Isbecki (played by Martin Kove) might be a closet homosexual.
The love scenes between frumpy Lacey (Tyne Daly) and her equally frumpy husband, Harvey are very in-your-face and somewhat nauseating. It makes me wonder if this lovemaking was showcased on the second season to make viewers aware that Cagney & Lacey were not lesbians. I get the feeling that the producers want to distance themselves from the first season with Meg Foster and the critics and public thinking they were a couple of lesbians.
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | November 4, 2021 4:10 PM
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You love the show, but deride everything about it? Okay.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 3, 2021 3:51 PM
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It's the same thing with Lou Thornton, the actress who was originally hired to play Samantha in Sex and the City. How Meg Foster overcame being dropped from such a hit show is beyond me.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 3, 2021 3:56 PM
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Loretta Swift was mad because she wanted to leave MASH and take the role, she played in the TV movie but the MASH guys wouldn't let her out of her contract.
Then CBS said, they'd hold the role for her till MASH was over, but then they double crossed her and recast it.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 3, 2021 3:57 PM
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CBS deemed Foster too aggressive and too likely to be perceived as a lesbian by the viewers, and yet somehow Tyne Daly passed.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 3, 2021 3:59 PM
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Of all 80s detective shows, Murder, She Wrote was the most authentic.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 3, 2021 4:38 PM
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Tyne was supposed to be the masculine one, and wore lots of dresses on the show.
They needed a feminine one to contrast with Tyne. According to the C&L Book, Sharon had to spend an hour a day in hair to give her hair 'bounce'. But wardrobe dressed Sharon in tom-boy type clothing, to contrast with Tyne's housewife dresses.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 3, 2021 4:38 PM
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[quote] Don't get me wrong, I love the show, but watching it nowadays I cannot imagine that police work actually fucntions like it did on this show
Police work doesn’t function the way it on Mare Of Easttown.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 3, 2021 4:39 PM
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It was better than the crap they put out today
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 3, 2021 4:41 PM
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R4 Sharon Gless hardly reads as 'fem'
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 3, 2021 5:21 PM
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That show is forty years old, OP, and you're claiming it's not realistic??
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 3, 2021 5:27 PM
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Sharon Gless was amazing. Why the hell was she on Burn Notice now, and so bad on it?
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 3, 2021 5:28 PM
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I remember being shocked when it was announced she was replacing Meg Foster, whom I liked in the role. (Yes, I am THAT old to remember this.) Til that point, I'd always thought of Gless as kind of kittenish and lightweight in the acting department. She'd replaced Lynn Redgrave on House Calls the season before, where she played it very feminine. She really butched it up for Cagney and was able to hold her own against Daly.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 3, 2021 5:32 PM
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I loved the restroom prank Sharon & Tyne pulled.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 3, 2021 5:36 PM
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Her eyes were so blue that day.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 3, 2021 6:36 PM
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another Sharon Gless interview
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 3, 2021 6:42 PM
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Isbecki has done some nude modeling of his own.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 3, 2021 6:48 PM
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They're nothing without each other...
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 3, 2021 6:53 PM
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Tyne should play Granny Goodness in a DC project.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 3, 2021 7:12 PM
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After Meg Forster's departure, the show was going to be re-branded "Cagney and Lucy," but Gary talked them out of it.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 3, 2021 8:07 PM
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Face facts: Cagney & Lacey were in a lesbian relationship
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | November 3, 2021 8:07 PM
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No, they weren't. They were best friends, which is more revolutionary because straight guys get NOTHING out of it.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 3, 2021 8:09 PM
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I'm surprised they haven't yet made a reboot of the show.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | November 4, 2021 2:23 AM
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I loved the show and got the series during the pandemic and I still love it. It does feel a bit weird when the program shows the WTC towers when they still existed...it dates the show more than the fashions.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | November 4, 2021 2:54 AM
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Martin Kove had to have a face transplant.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | November 4, 2021 2:57 AM
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[quote]I loved the show and got the series during the pandemic and I still love it. It does feel a bit weird when the program shows the WTC towers when they still existed...it dates the show more than the fashions.
It was still filmed in LA, R28.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | November 4, 2021 3:53 AM
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As a British comedian once commented, why didn't they get that washroom redecorated? It would only take Harvey a couple of days.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | November 4, 2021 9:09 AM
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GAG ME AND LACE ME still makes me chuckle like a seventh-grader.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | November 4, 2021 12:19 PM
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OP- Lacey’s husband was not frumpy he was
DUMPY
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | November 4, 2021 12:30 PM
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r27, they tried a few years ago. It didn't go to series.
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | November 4, 2021 2:18 PM
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John "Harvey" Karlen was kind of hot when younger. Didn't age well, though.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | November 4, 2021 2:20 PM
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Karlen mid-shave in Daughters of Darkness.
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | November 4, 2021 2:23 PM
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R37 R38- He knew he was good looking in the 1970's. By the 1980's he was so DUMPY and AVERAGE looking.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | November 4, 2021 3:57 PM
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R25- Face another fact-
Sharon Gless and Tyne Daley are both LESBIANS.
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | November 4, 2021 3:59 PM
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I don't know if Tyne and Sharon could ever be replaced as Cagney & Lacey. These roles were made for them.
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | November 4, 2021 4:10 PM
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