Cagney & Lacey reunited | Television & radio | The Guardian Crime drama Cagney & Lacey reunited Buddy movies and TV shows had always been the preserve of men – until New York cops Cagney and Lacey hit our screens in the 80s. Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly, still friends and both starring in the West End, reminisce about changing the face of primetime TV Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless, who played Mary Beth Lacey and Christine Cagney in Cagney & Lacey. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Share on Messenger Close There was a period in her 20s when Tyne Daly was always cast as a victim. She had grown up in a theatrical family, dreamt of being a classical actor, as well as appearing on the musical stage, but her husband's acting and directing career led the couple to Hollywood with their baby daughter. "My time on television began, and I started playing victims," she says. "I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets old, right?" Her laughter echoes around the empty auditorium.

A large, studded bird ring glints on her finger, and her eyes widen occasionally like a startled owl. She was once stopped at an airport by someone who recognised her from TV in that era. "You're the girl who cries ugly, right?" they said. She laughs raucously again at the memory. "Because I couldn't make one lovely tear come streaming down. So yeah. I cried ugly. Like most people do." In the early 80s, a new project arose. The chance to play the hero. The story had been in development since the mid-70s, when producer Barney Rosenzweig first became aware of the burgeoning women's movement. After watching a film called Scent of a Woman (not the Al Pacino version) his then-girlfriend, Barbara Corday, declared it, "the most degrading, the most sexist film I have ever seen". Rosenzweig began watching from a new perspective. He imagined all the women were male Hasidic Jews.

"By making this transference," he has written, "I 'saw' the sexist humour for what it was, something that only worked at the expense of someone less powerful … It was a revelation." He went on to read From Reverence to Rape , a book by feminist film critic Molly Haskell , and was struck by the idea that there had never been a true female buddy movie, either on the big screen or television. Rosenzweig decided to make one, a story combining action with female solidarity. Newman and Redford was discussed as a title, but discarded as a legal risk. Cross My Bra and Hope to Die was unfortunate for other reasons. Fair Game was mooted. Finally it became Cagney & Lacey . Thirty years after the show began, its two stars, Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless , appeared together again, for an anniversary event at the British Film Institute. The tickets sold out almost immediately. I was struck by the crowd's responses, the impromptu standing ovations as the women took the stage, the belly laughs as they described some clunky episodes – their characters, both cops, once had to go "undercover" dressed as a pineapple and a tomato .

Then there were swallowed sobs, as the more dramatic clips played, including one in which Daly's character, Mary Beth Lacey, struggles to accept a breast cancer diagnosis , and another in which Gless's character, Christine Cagney, descends into alcoholism . < Pinterest p>The first script was developed by Corday and her writing partner, Barbara Avedon , the pair creating what Corday described as, "a show about two women who happen to be cops, not two cops who happen to be women". There was a TV movie in 1981, followed by a TV series, which ran from 1982 to 1988; the characters would race around New York City , running up stairs, down stairs, arresting perps, rolling their eyes at flashers, wielding guns when absolutely necessary. And there was that undertow of solidarity. The women would argue, and laugh, and talk regularly in the ladies – or as they called it, "the jane". They could disagree vociferously, while always, at base, being deeply supportive. The show was a love story, as much as any buddy movie.

"I want my partner back," said Lacey, when Cagney was gripped by alcoholism. "I love you, and I don't want to lose you." The show was groundbreaking in its politics; watching it now on DVD, it's hard to believe anything so nakedly feminist ever appeared on primetime TV. The characters reunited for four films in the mid-90s, and New York magazine TV critic John Leonard wrote that the show had been, "to primetime what The Golden Notebook had been to modern novels and modern marriage: street-smart feminism; politics and friendship; therapy on the barricades; brains on a rampage … Without Chris and Mary Beth, Thelma and Louise would not have been imaginable." In their 60s now, the women have the easy rapport of people who once worked 17-hour days together, with all of the pressure that implies, but came through as great friends. They have both seen a lot. Daly has been through divorce; Gless has been through alcoholism herself , as well as an incident in which an obsessive fan broke into her house with a semi-automatic rifle, leading to a seven-hour stand-off with the police.

(thankfully Gless wasn't in the house at the time.) As we speak, the two women often nudge each other, falling into fits of salty laughter. In his memoir Cagney & Lacey … And Me , Rosenzweig, who married Gless in 1991, writes that she "has a mouth on her that men in a naval transportation unit might envy", while Daly "can be a pure diva of operatic proportions". The last description seems prescient. Daly is due to appear as Maria Callas in the play Master Class , a role that won her superlative reviews on Broadway, and is transferring to the Vaudeville in London's West End in January. She has built a stellar theatre career since Cagney & Lacey ended, playing everyone from Mama Rose in Gypsy to Clytemnestra in Agamemnon ; the New York Times's chief theatre critic, Ben Brantley, declared her "one of the finest American actresses working". Then there's Gless's play, A Round-Heeled Woman , which has just transferred from the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London, to the Aldwych.

She plays Jane Juska, who placed an advertisement in the New York Review of Books, reading: "Before I turn 67 next March, I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like." The role starts with the character masturbating and moves through various sex scenes, while also exploring Juska's difficult relationship with her son. Gless is terrific. When I ask how she came to buy the rights to Juska's memoir, she tells me she was dared to by her husband. "We'd had a huge fight, and about an hour later, he came in with this New York Times article , threw it on my desk and said: 'If you had any balls, you'd go after that.' So I read it, and I was so fascinated by her, and so pissed at him, that I called my lawyer the next morning and said: 'Get it for me!'" < Tyne Daly as Mary Beth Lacey and Sharon Gless as Chris Cagney in 1987. Photograph: Cbs Photo Archive/CBS via Getty Images p>Is it harder to find good roles as they get older? "Yes," says Gless.

"I have been very blessed, as has Tyne … but generally, ageism is rampant in Hollywood. Not against men." "Yes against men," Daly corrects her. "Not actors, but in terms of the people who run the place, the producers." Hollywood is also legendarily sexist, but Cagney & Lacey upended stereotypes. Their characters were tough, flawed and complementary. Lacey was the working-class woman from Queens, with two, then three kids, very much in love with her swooningly supportive husband, determined to do a good job, but with no interest in greasing her way up the ranks. Cagney was born to money on her mother's side, with a father who had been a cop, and she was cool, tough, ambitious, single and highly sexual, determined to be part of the boys' club. The show explored rape , abortion and unintended pregnancy, its outlook being cast, early on, when Rosenzweig told the network he would not make the show unless the women were allowed to make a menstruation joke. There are almost certainly more women on TV now than there were then, but in some ways the series still seems the high watermark of feminism on screen.

While both actors were attractive – Gless the cool blonde, Daly with her strong, serious mien – they also looked like ordinary women. "Tyne was so into detail," says Gless, "that the hairdressers would say, 'wait, I need to do the back of your hair,' and she'd say: 'Mary Beth can't see the back of her head, so I don't care." Daly fought to ensure her character, who was living on a budget, didn't have a new outfit each week, so the cowl-necked jumpers were regularly recycled. One incident nonetheless rankles. When the series ended there was a break-in at the costume warehouse, and "All of Christine Cagney's clothes were stolen," says Daly, "and none of Mary Beth Lacey's clothes were! I was so insulted." The men who played the other cops, "weren't used to coming in one day a week, says Daly, "and doing a little tip-tap and then the girls take over. We, of course, were trained in that. You would politely step aside, while the main people, the interesting people – the men – [were centre stage].

What I didn't know was how much hunger there was in the audience to see themselves on television. Black people like to see themselves on television. Women like it. Hispanic people like it. When we started reflecting the lives of women, there was a swell of support." Gless says Rosenzweig once pointed out that, "before Cagney & Lacey, women and minorities were always just considered amusing". "Women were marginalised in the comedy ghetto," says Daly, "where, no matter what's going on with your life, we'll fix it in 26 minutes. The powers that be were reluctant to hand over that expensive hour, which sells a lot of advertising space, to two stars with vaginas." Such was its success, they received letters from women who were joining the police force because of them. "You'd want to write to them and say, 'are you crazy?'" says Gless. "I did write to them and say: reconsider," says Daly. "This is make-believe and the real job is something quite different. But again, the doors were opening to non-traditional jobs.

We were at that transitional fulcrum, and we were showing it on TV, which is a very, very powerful medium." The show had several false starts before it became a hit. Gless was always the first choice for Cagney, but when Rosenzweig was casting the initial TV movie, she was under contract to Universal Studios, and was unavailable. She had grown up in California, the granddaughter of Neil McCarthy – attorney to Howard Hughes and Cecil B DeMille – and decided to become an actor, aged six. The ambition was set aside until an acting workshop in her mid-20s, which led to the contract with Universal. She was the studio's last ever contract player . "I loved it," she says. "You got $186 a week, whether you worked or not." The role went instead to Loretta Swit, from the show M*A*S*H . The TV movie was an enormous success, and Rosenzweig was asked to create a series. Swit wasn't available, Gless was still under contract, and so he cast Meg Foster as Cagney.

Within six episodes, she was ousted by the network; an unnamed CBS executive told TV Guide the pair were: "too harshly women's lib. The American public doesn't respond to the bra burners, the fighters, the women who insist on calling manhole covers 'people-hole covers'. These women on Cagney & Lacey seemed more intent on fighting the system than doing police work. We perceived them as dykes." < Pinterest p>Rosenzweig was given an order for more episodes, providing he re-cast Cagney, and he was finally able to secure Gless. (Ironically, given that executive's comment, Gless brought an enthusiastic lesbian audience to the show.) "I so wanted to impress Tyne," says Gless, "that the first scene we did together was terribly overacted. I wanted things to run out of my nose while I was crying. I'd seen Jane Fonda do it in Klute, and I thought, well, if I can do that, Tyne will really think I'm hot, right?" The show aired to low ratings, and its cancellation was announced during its run.

Hundreds of letters poured in from devastated fans, and Rosenzweig put together a form response advising each of them to write to their local newspaper, plus the New York Times and LA Times. Both major newspapers soon ran articles about the deluge of post, the show continued to climb the ratings, reached number one, and was recommissioned. It went on to be nominated for 36 Emmys, and, for each of the six years it ran, either Daly or Gless won the outstanding lead actress in a drama award. The feminist writer Gloria Steinem called it "the best show on television" . Were either of them involved with the women's movement prior to the programme? "You couldn't not be if you had a brain cell working," says Daly. "And you could be involved against it too. There were those women who said: 'This is unseemly, go back and stay in your place, that's safest. Go to college to find the alpha male and marry him.' Those were very powerful political times, so for me, it was an unavoidable discussion." A mother-in-law joke once appeared in a script. Daly refused to perform it. Had either of them experienced sexism in their careers?

"How do you describe sexism?" laughs Gless. I mention the casting couch. "It's not about the casting couch. It's about the money," says Daly firmly. They might have been among the highest paid women on television, but they were making, "one third of what was being made by the men at that time," she says. "This is an economic question. That's where they keep us distracted. They keep talking about sex itself, and having control over your own body, in terms of whether or not you're going to reproduce. And that is the distracting thing. What the women's movement is really about, like any other freedom movement, is equal treatment under the law, which means the same pay cheque if you're doing the same job, which means the same opportunities in the workplace. I'm going to sound real serious now. But it's handy for the powers-that-be to distract us with emotional issues when we're really talking about practical issues. Still is." We talk a little about Maria Callas and, playing devil's advocate, I ask if either of them has ever behaved in a diva-ish manner. "Ha," says Daly. "Probably. Sure. I mean, diva used to be a word that had importance.

It meant you had accomplishments, you had temperament, it was based on some kind of talent. Diva is a word that's gotten cheapened – now it just means someone who's unpleasant and rude … You don't see them telling any of the boys they're divas because they'll only have green M&Ms in their dressing room. It's become another way to punish women. I've probably had fits. But just arbitrarily throwing your weight around? No." "No," Gless agrees. "And the few fits I've had have been worthy ones." She leans in to my dictaphone, "just for the record, I was right." "Atta girl!" says Daly, and they both wheeze with laughter. Sharon Gless stars in A Round Heeled Woman at the Aldwych theatre, London until 14 January 2012. Tyne Daly stars in Master Class at the Vaudeville theatre from 21 January to 28 April 2012 Guardian Extra members can get a top price ticket to A Round Heeled Woman for £35. Find out more.

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Written by Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu> 8 October 1981 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Cagney i Lacey See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless guest-starred on each other's later shows. Gless appeared on a season 4 episode of Tyne Daly's show "Judging Amy", playing an old classmate of Daly's character Maxine. Tyne Daly, in turn, played a clerk on a season 3 episode of Sharon Gless' hit show "Burn Notice". See more » Quotes Mary Beth Lacey : We go in together and it's 'Hello, Sgt. Cagney,' 'How ya doing, Sgt. Cagney?' I may as well have stayed in the car. Christine Cagney : Oh Mary Beth. Mary Beth Lacey : And when we go to the lab, Solomon offers you sushi, me, I get fiber samples. Don't tell me you never noticed. Christine Cagney : Well, maybe one or two times. You know how men are.

See more » Crazy Credits Actor Sidney Clute passed away during the run of the series. In every episode after his death, his name and picture still appeared in the opening credits. That was done by the producers as a tribute to him. See more » Connections When network TV was worth watching 1 May 2010 | by calvinnme (United States) – See all my reviews This show was unique in that it was the first time that two basically average looking women played the leads in a TV show that was not about the fact that they were just average looking women. The show was also ground-breaking in that both detectives in the partnership were women - smart, capable women. Women had gradually been integrated into TV police forces over the 15 years prior to this series, but they were usually part of a crime-solving team such as on "Ironside". The balance in this show was not through the well-known old cop/young cop formula. Instead, both detectives were 30-something women. The contrast came in the form of their marital status and their personal situations. Lacey was married and a mother, and Cagney was single.

There was a pilot and six episodes during the 1981-1982 season starring an actress other than Sharon Gless as Detective Christine Cagney. In the 1982-1983 season the show settled into the dynamic that made it so popular and which most people remember. 5 of 5 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes The 80 Best TV Shows of the 1980s :: TV :: Lists :: Page 2 :: Paste The 80 Best TV Shows of the 1980s By Josh Jackson | November 11, 2014 | 3:15pm Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott, John Diehl, Olivia Brown Network: NBC There is an urban legend that Miami Vice was birthed after NBC exec Brandon Tartikoff wrote the phrase “MTV cops” on a napkin and presented it to Hill Street Blues writer Anthony Yerkovich. Yerkovich has since dismissed this story, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a more concise approximation of the show’s appeal.

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The Duke boys may not have always followed the letter of the law, running moonshine for Uncle Jesse, but as the song says, they were “never meaning no harm.” An ex-stockcar-racer and a former boxer/Marine sliding across the hood of the General Lee, the Dukes represented good, simple folks fighting against the crooked establishment; people tuned in for that romantic ideal—or, who am I kidding, for cousin Daisy.—Josh Jackson 45. Murder, She Wrote Stars: Angela Lansbury, William Windom, Tom Bosley, Ron Masak Network: CBS One of the best things about Murder, She Wrote is the improbability of there being so many random murders for Jessica Fletcher to solve. Consider: The woman is not a professional detective. She’s not employed by a police department, and she doesn’t typically travel to a location in order to solve a mystery. Rather, they just constantly happen around her. Every single day, crimes occur in her vicinity. If she goes on vacation, someone at the resort WILL be murdered—it’s just a matter of time.

So in a way, the series is really about a woman who radiates a field of death and destruction that ruins the lives of everyone she crosses paths with. Oh, and also Angela Lansbury is extremely entertaining in the role. —Jim Vorel 44. The Golden Girls Stars: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty Network: NBC It’s hard to imagine NBC making a show like this today—how would four elderly women with clashing personalities attract the coveted 18-39 demo? Dorothy (Bea Arthur) is the put-upon voice of reason. Her snarky mother Sophia (Estelle Getty) is always ready with a pithy one-liner. Blanche (Rue McClanahan) reminisces constantly about nights of passionate romance. And all of this goes right over the head of doe-eyed, naive Rose (Betty White). Through it all, the show has a lot of heart and you can tell that these four women care deeply for each other. And the Golden Girls’ adventures found an eager audience, ranking in the top 10 during its first six seasons.—Liz Shinn 43.

The A-Team Original Run: 1983-87 Creators: Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell Stars: George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz, Mr. T, Melinda Culea, Marla Heasley, Eddie Velez and Robert Vaughn Network: NBC The A-Team was like the live-action adaptation of a Saturday morning cartoon, G.I. Joe for slightly older audiences. In the style of The Incredible Hulk, it’s one of those “traveling adventure” shows—each week, the A-Team hits a new locale to help out a new group of people by driving their combat van through a brick wall. Its success is all thanks to its instantly iconic characters—strategist Hannibal, con man “Face,” wild man Murdock and Mr. T as B.A. Baracus, the role that has literally defined the man’s entire life. Honestly, if Mr. T hadn’t landed the role of B.A. Baracus, what would he have done with his life?—Jim Vorel 42.

Cagney & Lacey Creator: Barbara Avedon, Barbara Corday Stars: Tyne Daly, Sharon Gless, Al Waxman, John Karlen, Carl Lumbley, Harvey Atkin Network: CBS Cagney & Lacey was a straight-forward police procedural, most notable for the on-screen chemistry of its two stars. Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless dominated the Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama, trading off wins from 1982 to 1988. Daly’s working mom Mary Beth Lacey and Gless’s single-minded Christine Cagney gave a not-often-seen female perspective to the male-dominated cop drama.—Josh Jackson Creators: Sydney Newman, C.E. Webber, Donald Wilson Stars: Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylester McCoy Network: BBC One The ’80s were a strange time for everyone. Doctor Who was certainly no exception. Upon entering a new decade, the beloved sci-fi series found itself struggling to find a new identify in the wake of long-time star Tom Baker’s departure. This resulted in several ill-fated decisions, the most obvious being the abysmal eyesore that was the Sixth Doctor’s rainbow outfit.

And yet, despite large stretches of mediocre storylines and embarrassing monster designs (even by low-budget BBC standards), the show also yielded moments of transcendental greatness, from Fifth Doctor Peter Davidson’s phenomenal final episode (perhaps the best in the show’s history) to the later serials starring Sylvester McCoy’s Machiavellian Seventh Doctor. Sadly, the decade would end with the long-running show being put on an indefinite hiatus. Much like the eccentric Time Lord himself, however, the series would find itself regenerating in due time…—Mark Rozeman Sharon Gless - TV.com Sharon Gless 5/31/1943, Los Angeles, California, USA Birth Name EDIT Sharon Gless holds the title of the last contract player having been signed by Universal Studios in 1969.

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View Show 1986-1990 | NBC ALF is an American science fiction sitcom that originally aired on NBC from 1986 to 1990, created by Paul Fusco. The title character was Gordon Shumway, a friendly extraterrestrial nicknamed ALF (an acronym for Alien Life Form), who crash lands in the garage of the suburban middle-class Tanner family. View Show 1980-1982 | ABC Bosom Buddies was a sitcom that starred Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari and ran from 1980 to 1982 on ABC that followed the misadventures of two single men, working in creative advertising, struggling in their industry while disguising themselves as women in order to live in the one apartment they could afford. View Show 1981-1988 | CBS Cagney & Lacey is a sitcom that aired on the CBS for seven seasons from 1981 to 1988.

A police procedural, the show stars Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless as New York City police detectives who led very different lives: Christine Cagney (Gless) was a single, career-minded woman, while Mary Beth Lacey (Daly) was a married working mother. The series was set in a fictionalized version of Manhattan's 14th Precinct. View Show 1976-1981 | ABC Charlie's Angels is a crime drama series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. The show aired on ABC from 1976 to 1981.The View Show 1982-1993 | NBC Cheers is a sitom that ran for 11 seasons on NBC from 1982 to 1993. The show is set in the Cheers bar (named for the toast "Cheers") in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, chat and have fun.

The show's theme song, written and performed by Gary Portnoy, and co-written with Judy Hart Angelo, lent its famous refrain, "Where Everybody Knows Your Name", as the show's tagline. View Show 1977-1983 | NBC CHiPs is a drama series that aired on NBC from 1977 to 1983 that followed the lives of two motorcycle police officers of the California Highway Patrol, Baker and Ponch. View Show 1978-1991 | CBS Dallas is a drama that revolves around the Ewings, a wealthy Texas family in the oil and cattle-ranching industries. The series won four Emmy Awards, including a 1980 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series win for Barbara Bel Geddes. Throughout the series, Larry Hagman stars as greedy, scheming oil baron J. R. Ewing. The show also starred stage/screen actress Barbara Bel Geddes as family matriarch Miss Ellie, and movie Western actor Jim Davis in his last role as Ewing patriarch Jock Ewing before his death in 1981.

View Show 1988-1992 | NBC Dear John is a sitcom that aired on NBC from 1988 to 1992. The series was originally based on the British sitcom of the same name. Dear John starred Judd Hirsch as easy going high school teacher John Lacey who is dumped by his wife, Wendy, via a Dear John letter. Wendy ends up with everything in the divorce settlement, including custody of the couple's son, forcing John to move into an apartment in Queens. View Show 1978-1985 | ABC Diff'rent Strokes is an sitcom that aired on NBC from 1978 to 1985, and on ABC from September 1985 to March 1986. The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman named Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain) and his daughter Kimberly (Dana Plato), for whom their deceased mother previously worked. View Show 1989-1993 | ABC Doogie Howser, M.D.

is an comedy-drama starring Neil Patrick Harris as a 16-year-old doctor who also faces the problems of being a normal teenager. Created by Steven Bochco and David E. Kelley, ABC aired the show from 1989 to 1993 for four seasons totaling 97 episodes. View Show 1979-1985 | CBS The Dukes of Hazzard is a comedy series that aired on the CBS from 1979 to 1985 about "The Duke Boys", cousins Bo and Luke Duke, who live in a rural part of the fictional Hazzard County, Georgia with their attractive cousin Daisy and their wise old Uncle Jesse, as they race around in their customized 1969 Dodge Charger stock car, christened (The) General Lee, evading crooked county commissioner Boss Hogg and his inept county sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, and always managing to get caught in the middle of the various escapades and incidents that often occur in the area.

View Show 1979-1988 | NBC A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life is a sitcom that aired on NBC from 1979 to 1988 and focused on Edna Garrett (Charlotte Rae) as she becomes housemother at the fictional Eastland School, an all-female boarding school in Peekskill, New York. View Show 1989-1998 | ABC, CBS Family Matters is a sitcom about a middle-class African-American family living in Chicago, Illinois, which aired for nine seasons. The series was a spin-off of Perfect Strangers, but revolves around the Winslow family. Midway through the first season, the show introduced the Winslows' nerdy neighbor Steve Urkel (played by Jaleel White), who quickly became its breakout character and eventually a main character. Family Matters aired from 1989 to 1997 on ABC and on CBS from September 1997 to July 1998.

View Show 1982-1989 | NBC Family Ties is an sitcom that aired on NBC for seven seasons from 1982 to 1989. The sitcom reflected the move in the United States from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s. This was particularly expressed through the relationship between young Republican Alex P. Keaton (Michael J. Fox) and his ex-hippie parents, Elyse and Steven Keaton (Meredith Baxter-Birney and Michael Gross). View Show 1987-1995 | ABC Set in San Francisco, family-friendly sitcom Full House centers around the adventures of a widowed father, his three children, and his two best friends. Danny (Bob Saget) is a straight-laced local television personality, Joey (David Coulier) is a fun-loving stand-up comedian, and brother-in-law Jesse (John Stamos) is an Elvis-obsessed rocker. Danny's children include 11-year-old D.J.

(Candace Cameron), five-year-old Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin), and baby Michelle (big-eyed future superstars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen). Created by Jeff Franklin (Laverne and Shirley), the show ran on ABC for eight seasons. View Show 1985-1992 | NBC The Golden Girls is a sitcom that aired on NBC from 1985 until 1992 that centers on four older women sharing a home in Miami, Florida. View Show 1981-1983 | ABC The Greatest American Hero is a comedy-drama series that aired for three seasons from 1981 to 1983 on ABC about flying crime fighter. View Show 1985-1992 | CBS Growing Pains is sitcom starring Alan Thicke about an upper middle class family, residing in Huntington, New York, with a working mother and a stay-at-home psychiatrist father raising three children together, that aired on ABC from 1985 to 1992.

For those who grew up with the Seavers, and in need of a retro blast of '80s nostalgia, Growing Pains will still, to quote the theme song, show you that smile again. View Show 1968-1980 | CBS Hawaii Five-O is a police procedural drama series set in Hawaii that aired for twelve seasons from 1968 to 1980 The show featured a fictional state police unit run by Detective Steve McGarrett, portrayed by Jack Lord. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Most episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno" sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one." View Show 1986-1991 | ABC Head of the Class is a sitcom aired on ABC from 1986 to 1991 that follows a group of gifted students in the Individualized Honors Program (IHP) at the fictional Monroe High School (later Millard Fillmore High School) in Manhattan, and their history teacher Charlie Moore (Howard Hesseman). The program was ostensibly a vehicle for Hesseman, best known for his role as radio DJ Dr.

Johnny Fever in the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. Hesseman left Head of the Class in 1990 and was replaced by Billy Connolly as teacher Billy MacGregor for the final season. View Show 1981-1987 | NBC Hill Street Blues is a police drama that aired on NBC from 1981 to 1987. Chronicling the lives of the staff of a single police precinct in an unnamed American city, the show received critical acclaim and its production innovations influenced many subsequent dramatic television series that were made. View Show 1975-1985 | CBS The Jeffersons is a sitcom that aired on CBS from 1975 until 1985 that chronicled the Afican-American Jefferson family who had recently moved up the socioeconomic ladder. The Jeffersons is the longest-running sitcom with a predominantly African American cast in the history of American television. View Show 1979-1993 | CBS Knots Landing is a primetime drama series that aired from 1979 to 1993 on CBS.

Set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles in California, the show centered on the lives of four married couples living in a cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle. Initially intended to be a Scenes From a Marriage-type drama series, storylines also included rape, murder, kidnapping, assassinations, drug smuggling, corporate intrigue and criminal investigations. By the time of its conclusion, Knots Landing had become one of the longest-running primetime dramas on U.S. television after Gunsmoke and Law & Order, and tied for third place with Bonanza. View Show 1986-1994 | NBC L.A. Law is legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from 1986 to 1994 created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher. This critically acclaimed ensemble drama reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s as many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues of the day. The series often also reflected tensions between the wealthy senior lawyers and their less well-paid junior staff.

View Show 1976-1983 | ABC Laverne & Shirley is a sitcom that ran on ABC from 1976 to 1983 starring Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney, roommates who worked in a fictitious Milwaukee brewery called "Shotz Brewery". View Show 1977-1986 | ABC The Love Boat is sitcom set on a cruise ship that aired on ABC from 1977 until 1986. The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain. It was part of ABC's popular Saturday night lineup that included Fantasy Island until the latter show ended in 1984. View Show 1985-1992 | ABC MacGyver is an action-adventure series that ran for seven seasons on ABC and follows secret agent Angus MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson. MacGyver prefers non-violent resolutions where possible, and refuses to handle a gun. He works as a troubleshooter for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles.

He is a resourceful agent with an encyclopedic knowledge of science, able to solve complex problems with everyday materials he finds at hand, along with his ever-present duct tape and Swiss Army knife. View Show 1987-1997 | FOX Married... with Children was the first primetime sitcom to air on FOX and starred Ed O'Neil as everyman Al Bundy and his dysfunctional family from Chicago, Illinois. View Show 1972-1983 | CBS M*A*S*H is a medical-military-comedy series, adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH that follows a team of doctors and support staff stationed at the "4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital" in Uijeongbu, South Korea, during the Korean War. M*A*S*H's theme song featured an instrumental version of the song "Suicide Is Painless", which also appears in the original film. View Show 1984-1989 | NBC Miami Vice was a crime drama series that ran on NBC for five seasons from 1984 to 1989.

The series starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs respectively, two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. View Show 1978-1982 | ABC Mork & Mindy is a science fiction sitcom that aired on ABC from 1978 until 1982 that starred Robin Williams as Mork, an alien who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-man egg-shaped spaceship. Pam Dawber co-starred as Mindy McConnell, his human friend and roommate. In 1997, the episode "Mork's Mixed Emotions" was ranked #94 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time list. View Show 1985-1990 | ABC Mr. Belvedere is a sitcom that aired on ABC 1985 until 1990 that is based on the Lynn Aloysius Belvedere character created by Gwen Davenport for her 1947 novel Belvedere, which was later adapted into the 1948 film Sitting Pretty.

The sitcom stars Christopher Hewett in the title role, who takes a job with an American family headed by George Owens, played by Bob Uecker. View Show 1988-1998 | CBS Murphy Brown is a sitcom that aired on CBS from 1988 until 1998 that starred Candice Bergen as the eponymous Murphy Brown, a famous investigative journalist and news anchor for FYI, a fictional CBS television newsmagazine. View Show 1976-1981 | CBS The Muppet Show is a American television programme produced by puppeteer Jim Henson and featuring Muppets. After two pilot episodes were produced in 1974 and 1975, the show premiered on September 5, 1976, and five series were produced until March 15, 1981, lasting 120 episodes.

View Show 1987-1990 | NBC My Two Dads is a sitcom that aired on NBC from 1987 to 1990 and starred Staci Keanan, Paul Reiser and Greg Evigan about a two men who could have been the father of the main character Nicole. View Show 1984-1992 | NBC Night Court is an sitcom that aired on NBC from 1984 to 1992 about night shift of a Manhattan court, presided over by the young, unorthodox Judge Harold T. "Harry" Stone (Harry Anderson). It was created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, who had previously worked on Barney Miller in the 1970s and early 1980s. View Show 1986-1993 | ABC Perfect Strangers is a sitcom that aired on ABC from 1986 to 1993 that chronicled the rocky coexistence of midwestern American Larry Appleton (Mark Linn-Baker) and his distant cousin from eastern Mediterranean Europe, Balki Bartokomous (Bronson Pinchot).

View Show 1989-1993 | NBC Quantum Leap is a drama series that aired on NBC from 1989 to 1993 that starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist from six years in the future who becomes lost in time following a time travel experiment, temporarily taking the places of other people to "put right what once went wrong". View Show 1988-1997 | ABC Roseanne is a sitcom that aired on ABC 1988 until 1997 that revolved around the Conners, an Illinois working class family. The series reached #1 in the Nielsen ratings becoming the most watched television show in the United States from 1989 to 1990, and remained in the top four for six of its nine seasons, and in the top twenty for eight. View Show 1990-1993 | NBC, Syndication Saved by the Bell is a popular 1990s sitcom that aired between 1989 and 1993.

The series is a retooled version of the 1988 series Good Morning, Miss Bliss, which was itself later folded into the history of Saved by the Bell. The series followed the exploits of several students along with their principal at fictional Bayside High School. View Show 1989-1998 | NBC Seinfeld is a sitcom that aired on NBC from 1989 to 1998 set predominantly in an apartment block on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the show features a host of Jerry Seinfeld's stories with his best friend George Costanza, former girlfriend Elaine Benes, and neighbor across the hall Cosmo Kramer. View Show 1982-1987 | NBC, Syndication Silver Spoons is a sitcom about an extremely wealthy Stratton family that aired on NBC from 1982 to 1986 and in first-run syndication from 1986 to 1987. View Show 1985-1989 | Syndication Small Wonder is a sci-fi sitcom that aired in first-run syndication from 1985 to 1989.

The show chronicles the family of a robotics engineer who, after he secretly creates a robot modeled after a real human girl, tries to pass it off as their daughter, Vikki. View Show 1982-1988 | NBC St. Elsewhere is a medical drama series that ran on NBC 1982 to 1988 set at fictional St. Eligius, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End neighborhood. The show starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels all as teaching doctors, who gave interns a promising future in making critical decisions. View Show 1978-1982 | ABC, NBC Taxi is a sitcom that aired from 1978 to 1982 on ABC and from 1982 to 1983 on NBC that chronicled the everyday lives of a handful of New York City taxi drivers and their abusive dispatcher. Taxi won won 18 Emmy Awards, including three for "Outstanding Comedy Series".

View Show 1977-1984 | ABC Three's Company was a hit sitcom that aired on ABC from 1977 until 1984 that revolves around three single roommates: Janet Wood, Chrissy Snow and Jack Tripper who all platonically share Apartment 201 in a Santa Monica, California apartment building owned by Mr. and Mrs. Roper. View Show 1972-1981 | CBS The Waltons is a period drama series that aired on CBS from 1972 to 1981 that is based on the book Spencer's Mountain and a 1963 film of the same name. The show is centered on a family in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II. View Show 1983-1987 | ABC Webster is sitcom that aired on ABC from 1983 until 1987 that starred Emmanuel Lewis. Like NBC's earlier hit Diff'rent Strokes, it featured a young African American boy adopted by a white family. View Show 1984-1992 | ABC Who's the Boss?

is a sitcom that aired on ABC 1984 until 1992 and starred Tony Danza as a retired major league baseball player who relocates to Fairfield, Connecticut to work as a live-in housekeeper for a divorced advertising executive, played by Judith Light. Also featured were Alyssa Milano, Danny Pintauro, and Katherine Helmond. View Show 1978-1982 | CBS WKRP in Cincinnati is sitcom that aired on CBS from 1978 to 1982 that featured the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The ensemble cast consisted of Gary Sandy, Howard Hesseman, Gordon Jump, Loni Anderson, Tim Reid, Jan Smithers, Richard Sanders and Frank Bonner. View Show 1988-1993 | ABC The Wonder Years was a hit comedy-drama series that aired on ABC from 1988 until 1993 that starred Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold, a boy facing rites of passage on his way to adulthood .

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Question: What 1980's TV programme starred Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless?
Answer: Cagney and Lacey