Cagney & Lacey season 1 intro

The opening credits from the first season of the 1982-88 series, with Meg Foster as Chris Cagney (rather than Sharon Gless, who assumed the role starting in season 2). And instead of the familiar Bill Conti theme, this features a brassy 70s-style tune by Nelson Riddle.

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• Cagney
• Lacey
• opening
• theme
• intro
• Daly
• Foster

[dramaticguy]

Sharon Gless was the 3rd Chris Cagney,Loretta Swit played her in the movie pilot,Meg Foster was axed fro not being enough of a contrast to Tyne Daly.

Sharon Gless made the part,her own.

[paoloblanc]

meg foster has weird eyes, like village of the damned lol

[Eurodance90schick]

i remember this show well mostly the theme anyway i used to hear it on tv when i was 4 yrs. old.

[xAmazonxValkyriex]

Hell yes, two lesbians bustin' perp's in the 80s!

[BlondeBardie]

I love the way Mary Beth gets all shy and prudish when it comes to prostitution.

I think sometimes she is shocked by the things Christine talks about.

[videonut33]

"You call these 'plain clothes'?"

lol

[vkoo32]

@mullettmark I agree with you. It is either ironic that producers called her a dyke which I totally disagreed with. We just have to admit at that time it was still a male dominated enviornment and srong women were not viewed positively on US tv at that time.

[filmidioten]

Now don't get me wrong, I love Meg Foster, but her Christine Cagney didn't really work as well up against Tyne Daly's Mary Beth Lacey as Gless' version would later do. Also, this "theme song" is horrible, if it can even be called a theme. Bill Conti's next theme that accompanied all the seasons with Sharon Gless is one of the coolest tv themes in history. Everything just fell right into place the moment Sharon Gless joined the show.

[viddykiddy18]

You may or may not know this, but Sharon Gless was asked to play the part Chris Cagney the whole time; she was just delayed/unavailable because of her contract with Universal Television.

[vkoo32]

A message to the people ! All of the Meg Foster episodes are available through imdb-HULU. In my opinion Meg Foster's character was not butchy at all, she was just too brassy. I do agree ith the writers the Meg Foster's Cagney just did not really click very well.

[fromthesidelines]

CBS supposedly let Meg Foster go after a handful of episodes because they inferred that she and Tyne Daly looked like "a pair of dykes" on camera, and wanted a "Chris Cagney" with a "softer" personality. Sharon Gless had just fnished "HOUSE CALLS", and she got the part [Meg's acting career was never the same again].

[ds102]

Simmons.