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
Switch (TV series) Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner are the only actors to appear in every episode. Sharon Gless appeared in all but three episodes, and Charlie Callas did not appear in four episodes during the run. The short-lived ABC 1976-1977 crime drama "The Feather and Father Gang" was seen as an unsuccessful attempt to imitate "Switch". Coincidentally, Wagner would later costar with one of the stars of "The Feather and Father Gang", Stefanie Powers, in another crime drama "Hart to Hart" which ran for 5 seasons beginning in 1979. Switch (TV series) Switch is an American action-adventure detective series starring Eddie Albert