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
Wayne Rogers Rogers appeared as an FBI agent in the 1975 NBC-TV movie "," as Michael Stone in the 1980 miniseries "Top of the Hill", and as civil rights attorney Morris Dees in 1996s "Ghosts of Mississippi." He also starred in the short-lived 1976 period detective series "City of Angels" and the 1979–1982 CBS series "House Calls," first with Lynn Redgrave (both were nominated for Golden Globes in 1981, as best actor and best actress in TV comedy, but did not win) and then later with actress Sharon Gless (coincidentally, one of the "House Calls" co-stars was Roger Bowen who played the