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
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