Cagney & Lacey Cain, and show the two lead characters being promoted to plainclothes detectives and later disguised as prostitutes. This was replaced the following season by an instrumental theme composed by Bill Conti set to a collage of action and comical scenes featuring the characters from the series. The series was followed by four television movies which reunited the characters Christine Cagney (promoted and now working at the District Attorney's office) and Mary Beth Lacey (now retired from the police force). Following the conclusion of "Cagney & Lacey", Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless have reunited onscreen three times: all three times playing
Mary Richards flappable... Mary was human and strong enough to be laughed with and laughed at". In 1992, "Entertainment Weekly" called her "the first great grown-up single working woman on TV", and in 1999, "Entertainment Weekly" ranked her hat toss in the opening credits as television's second greatest moment. On Bravo's 100 Greatest TV Characters, she was ranked eighth, the highest position of the four "Mary Tyler Moore Show" characters on this list. In 1999, "TV Guide" ranked her number 21 on its '50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time' list. In 2002, TV Land honored Mary Richards with a statue on