A film series of six programmes starring Meg Foster as Chris Cagney and Tyne Daly as Mary Beth Lacey with Al Waxman as Lt Samuels, Carl Lumbly as Det Petrie and John Karlan as Harvey.
Cagney and Lacey are called to the scene when an old man is accused of shooting a member of a gang of Puerto Rican youths. Off duty, the two women cops gatecrash a party given by a male colleague to which they have specifically not been invited...