The popular TV show "Cagney & Lacey" aired between 1981 and 1988 - a total of 126 episodes and four TV movies were produced. A police procedural, the show stared Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless as New York City police detectives who lead very different lives: Christine Cagney (Gless) was a single, career-minded woman, while Mary Beth Lacey (Daly) was a married working mother. The series was set in a fictional Manhattan Borough called Midtown South.