Mr. TV: Name Dropping

Two episodes in, I’m optimistic about new TNT crime solver Rizzoli & Isles, which reminds me a lot of TV classic Cagney & Lacey.  

Whenever I think of Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless fighting crime in the set streets of New York (watch closely and you are likely to see a palm tree or two pop up), it brings to mind two of my  important TV-related milestones.

Initially airing as a two-hour movie, Cagney & Lacey was upgraded to a six-episode order with Daly as Mary Beth Lacey and Meg Foster in place of Loretta Swit, who played the role of Christine Cagney in the movie and who could not get out of her M*A*S*H contract to continue.

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