I consider Cagney & Lacey the best show on television , January 16, 1988 --Gloria Steinem, TV Guide, 1.16.88...older, thicker, smarter, wrinkled and not the least bit apologetic about it --John Leonard, New York MagazineCagney & Lacey became the prism though which all other dramas with women would be viewed, upheld as a social document of professional women s lives in the late 20th century --Boston Globe