The law's reach never stretched this far.

Cagney and Lacey are two female New York policewomen doing their job as best they can in a male-dominated police department in this feature-length pilot that sparked the popular, long-running series.

Before she was Debbie Novotny, Sharon Gless was a television trailblazer as Detective Christine Cagney on the seminal CBS drama Cagney & Lacey. The show, which ran from 1982 to 1988, was a rarity in ...