The BEST episodes of Cagney & Lacey season 6
Every episode of Cagney & Lacey season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Cagney & Lacey season 6!
Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD detectives in this landmark series. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the greatest crime-fighting duos of all time.
#1 - Turn, Turn, Turn (1)
Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/30/1987
Charlie's drinking finally catches up with him and he goes to the Great Bar in the Sky. Chris and brother Brian send him off with a wake at Flannery's. But Chris can't handle it, and winds up dead drunk in her apartment. Only Lacey can save her and get her to AA.
#2 - Turn, Turn, Turn (2)
Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/30/1987
In the B plot, Lacey rescues a child from a burning car and then has to return the child to the proper mother.
#3 - Disenfranchised (aka Incest)
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1986
(Also given to me as ""Incest."") A girl says that their father is molesting the younger daughter, who is too young to testify. How does she know? Because she was molested herself. Cagney and Lacey get the children away from their parents, but have to split up the girls to do so.
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#4 - Right to Remain Silent
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/9/1987
A deaf girl is suspected of murder. Could someone with such a severe handicap commit a crime like that? Also, a drunken David Keeler appears on Cagney's door step begging her forgiveness. She hadn't seen him since ""the Cost of Living"" although he left numerous messages on her answering machine.
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#5 - Schedule One
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1986
The Laceys move into their first home, but Mary Beth's joy is diminished by a junkie's claims that he saw a cop take heroin from a crime scene.
#7 - The Zealot
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1986
An assistant D.A. has devoted his entire career to prosecuting child pornography. When he turns up dead, Cagney (who would have liked to have gotten to know him better) thinks one of those scuzzy pornographers had killed him.
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#10 - Special Treatment
Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/16/1987
Lacey participates in a protest march against nuclear weapons. She gets arrested and thrown to the tender mercies of Detective Dupnick.
#13 - Culture Clash
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1986
Cagney and Lacey investigate the murder of a teenage girl who wanted to break away from her traditional Islamic upbringing; meanwhile, Chris is excited by the prospect of being chosen for a potentially career-making task force.
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#14 - The Marathon
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/24/1986
The 14th precinct has to help support the annual New York City marathon. One of the (white) runners is from South Africa, and is facing death threats if she runs. Cagney and Lacey are assigned to talk her out of running but if they can't, then they must protect her.
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#16 - Role Call
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1986
In a self-referential show, the 14th is visited by a TV star, ""Detective Deedee,"" who has permission from the brass to learn how real policemen work. She especially wants to learn from Cagney and Lacey.
#17 - Ahead of the Game
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/2/1987
Story by Allison Hock. The crime story hits close to home here. The Laceys are burglarized and Mary Beth must deal with Detective Dupnick from Queens. Of course, she's neglected all the precautions that she lectures civilians about. Cagney attends the Emerald Ball, while dealing with a high school athlete who dropped dead of steroid overuse
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#18 - Divine Couriers
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/23/1987
A spiritualist has a new gimmick. She charges people to get messages to their dead loved ones by hiring terminally ill people as messengers. The funny thing is that everyone except Cagney and Lacey are happy with the setup.
#20 - Waste Deep
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/19/1987
A toy company is dumping toxic wastes, and a gungho environmentalist is willing to do whatever it takes to get Cagney and Lacey to investigate.
#21 - Sorry, Right Number
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1986
A rash of burglaries coincides with a heat wave; Lacey and Isbecki are trapped in an elevator; and Cagney frets over a long weekend with David.
#22 - To Sir, With Love
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/16/1987
Story by Sandy Sprung and Marcy Vosburgh. Samuels is getting the Distinguished Service Award at a banquet. All Cagney and Lacey have to do is plan the banquet, coordinate the entertainment, get the balloons, and make cannoli. Very funny, especially the cannoli scene.