With Cagney and Lacey we see a tale of two very different detectives, Christine Cagney (Sharon Gless) a single woman focussed on her career, and Mary Beth Lacey (Tyne Daley), who was married with a kid, and struggling to balance family and work. Christine Cagney and Mary Beth Lacey - Cagney and Lacey (1982-1988) Tyne Daley and Sharon Gless in Cagney and Lacey.Īs the role of women in the home and in the workplace changed throughout the 1970s and on into the ’80s, so TV started to reflect that cultural shift.
The show won Dickinson a Golden Globe, while it’s thought to be responsible for a surge in women applying for police jobs in the States. Anderson oftentimes went undercover to solve crimes for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the LAPD, posing as everything from a teacher and a nurse to a prostitute and a prison inmate. In this case undercover police officer ‘Pepper’ Anderson. Police Woman made history, as it was the first ongoing American drama to focus on a woman. ‘Pepper’ Anderson - Police Woman (1974-1978) Angie Dickinson in Police Woman. OK, it’s really 11 thanks to the inclusion of Cagney and Lacey… or maybe 13 due to a certain dynamic animated duo that we’ve added as a bonus at the end. With a ton of iconic detectives being played by women, here are 10 of the best. One of the greatest examples of this, is of course the crime genre. But as TV has caught up with the world at large, women have slowly gone on to play a more central role in some of the greatest shows of the last few decades. With the majority of small-screen sleuthing done by men, the women merely made coffee and offered moral support to their colleagues.
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That film was intended to launch a new series, but its future is likely up in the air given that the movie went straight to DVD, and the TV show has now gone to series.Women detectives weren’t taken particularly seriously in the early days of television. IT standout Sophia Lillis appeared in Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, a movie that was released earlier this year. In addition to a number of B-movies in the 30s and 40s, Nancy Drew was released as a feature film in 2007, starring Emma Roberts. A 2002 pilot failed to make it to series, and so became a TV movie starring Maggie Lawson (who would go on to star in Psych for 8 years and two movies and counting, so she did alright).
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Tracy Ryan starred in a short-lived Nancy Drew series in 1995, which aired on The CW's precursor, The WB. Nancy Drew co-headlined a TV series in the late '70s with The Hardy Boys - The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries - in which Pamela Sue Martin first played the character, later to be replaced by Janet Louise Johnson. The books have been translated to numerous languages, and the dozens of titles have collectively sold tens of millions of copies around the world, while also inspiring comic books, video games, and more. The books are ghostwritten by a number of authors and published under the collective pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The character first appeared in 1930, and made it to the big screen by the late 1930s. Nancy Drew is a teen detective in an American mystery series created by publisher Edward Stratemeyer as the female counterpart to his popular Hardy Boys series.
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