Sharon Gless installment, by Loretta Swit. Swit, like Foster, was chosen as Cagney because, though the character of Cagney had been created with Gless herself in mind, she was unavailable for the pilot or the first seven installments of the first season.) In 1991, she married the series' executive producer, Barney Rosenzweig, who speaks in his book "Cagney & Lacey...and Me" about wanting Sharon Gless from the beginning and Gless being unavailable due to her contract with Universal. Rosenzweig created the 1990–1992 CBS drama series "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill" for Gless and, uncredited, played the only partially seen psychiatrist to whom
Sharon Gless playwright Claudia Allen and directed by Wendy Jo Carlton. In 2017, it was announced that Gless would appear in one episode of the BBC's "Casualty", the world's longest-running medical drama, as surgeon Zsa Zsa Harper-Jenkinson. She appears in the thirteenth episode of the serial's thirty-second series. Gless called Zsa Zsa a "wonderful character". Gless was invited to appear in the show by one of the producers and expressed interest in reprising the role. Gless' appearance marked the first time the show has flown an American to the UK to film a role. She reprised the role on the October 13