Remembering Cagney and Lacey with Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly

Product description There’s no mystery about why anyone watching the original “Cagney and Lacey” today will enjoy the shows. The series was ahead of its time, with a cast of extremely talented actors, believable characters and timely plots. The one thing some of today’s fans may not realize – unlike those of us who remember the show from its earliest days – is just how revolutionary the program was at the time. It’s hard to believe, but the idea of having two strong women carry a show was novel back then. The fact that Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless portrayed those characters was a major factor in the program’s success. They made the struggles Christine Cagney and Mary Beth Lacy faced in both their professional and personal lives ring true. We believed in them because of the way Sharon and Tyne related to each other as Christine and Mary Beth. And, as I hope this book will show, their off-screen chemistry was every bit as fascinating.