Cagney & Lacey announced in the role of police Captain Stark. On May 11, 2018, CBS passed on the pilot. Cagney & Lacey Cagney & Lacey is an American television series that aired on the CBS television network for seven seasons from March 25, 1982, to May 16, 1988. A police procedural, the show starred Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly as New York City police detectives who led very different lives: Christine Cagney (Gless) was a career-minded single woman, while Mary Beth Lacey (Daly) was a married working mother. The series was set in a fictionalized version of Manhattan's 14th Precinct (known as
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