Cagney & Lacey off massive protest, and put Rosenzweig into high gear in his dealings with CBS. The cancellation of "House Calls" was announced among insider circles just before upfronts, and Rosenzweig pressured CBS executives to relaunch "Cagney & Lacey" in the fall with Gless replacing Foster. Gless met with "Cagney & Lacey" producers again to consider the role, but while always having taken to the character, had doubts about joining for the fall of 1982 because, after "House Calls", she "didn't want to make a career of replacing actresses." Ratings, however, were still low during the first year Daly and Gless co-starred
Tyne Daly initially disapproves of her FBI agent son's girlfriend. Among her later television roles, Daly reunited with "Cagney & Lacy" costar Sharon Gless in a 2010 guest role on the series "Burn Notice". In the fall of 2018, Daly joined the cast of the revival of the "Murphy Brown" series, playing the character of Phyllis, who runs the bar which Murphy and her coworkers often patronize. Daly's first Broadway role was in 1967 in a short-lived play, "That Summer, That Fall". In 1988, Daly appeared on the Dolly Parton TV variety show "Dolly", and sang (at her request) a duet with