In popular police TV series from the 1980s, Cagney & Lacey, Tyne Daly (left) portrayed the married Lacey and Sharon Gless was the foxy, single Cagney. Photo: CBS
Women police officers on TV, from Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect to Keeley Hawes in Honour, streaming soon
- Angie Dickinson laid the groundwork in Police Woman in the early 1970s, while Cagney & Lacey was about two cops on the job and at home
- But it was Prime Suspect with Mirren that first excavated the true cost of such a demanding career on the women who choose to pursue police work
In popular police TV series from the 1980s, Cagney & Lacey, Tyne Daly (left) portrayed the married Lacey and Sharon Gless was the foxy, single Cagney. Photo: CBS
