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
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