Then there are more brilliant pairings of comics, broadcasters and writers – Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes, Vogue Williams and Joanne McNally, Anna McPartlin and Sinéad Moriarty and so many more.īrave and brilliant or flawed and fearful, these real women are everywhere in crime and psychological thrillers. Is there a glimpse of their feisty presence in the practically perfect Thelma and Louise? In the brilliance of Doctors Meredith Grey and Cristina Yang in Grey’s Anatomy, in the sisterhood of Anna and Elsa, in the friendships of The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants? Did they open the doors for Lorelai and Rory in The Gilmore Girls, for Donna, Tanya and Rosie in Mamma Mia, for Enid and Rebecca in Ghost World, even for Buffy and Willow in Buffy? It could be argued that Cagney and Lacey paved the way for female duos – and not just in the crimefighting world. At a time when women had been traditionally encouraged to see each other as rivals, Cagney and Lacey showed us the support and friendship of women in a new light. At the time, Gloria Steinem wrote that Cagney and Lacey’s partnership ‘honours women’s friendships and represents a radical departure from the myth that women can’t get along.’ Women as alliesĪnd this was so true. But they always, always had each other’s backs. They weren’t afraid to disagree or to challenge the other’s opinion. It succeeded in showing the complexities of each individual behind the badge.īut the best thing of all about the show was the affection and loyalty the two women had for each other.
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The series aimed to be more than a police procedural. Both of them had real lives outside of the job – Mary Beth constantly juggling the demands of childrearing and work Chris wrestling with the rollercoaster of alcoholism – with dramatic scenes which have stayed with me for decades.
The set-up was their partnership – Chris Cagney, a single, somewhat obsessed career officer and Mary Beth Lacey, a mother and wife who needed to work to pay the bills. They took on social issues, but never in a preachy way – issues were explored in the context of the workplace.
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More siblings arrived and, in the seventies, we watched TV together, elbowing each other for prime space on the battered couch while snacking on Opal Fruits and Desperate Dan bars. We fought crime in our back garden, on the walk home from school, and once – memorably, after scaling the high wall – in a neighbour’s swimming pool.ġ966-1968 Batman Adam West and Robin Burt Ward in the 1960s. (I’d never seen that episode, but Keith swore it was true.) The one who had to do everything Batman said, apparently, and get him snacks from the kitchen. I reminded him that Robin was an expert fighter because he used to be in a circus act with his parents before they were murdered, and I demonstrated my best cartwheel-into-roundhouse kick (I did gymnastics, Keith didn’t) and so I got to be Robin – the smaller half of the crime-fighting duo. He loved it so much that afterwards, he let me play it with him, even though I was ‘only a girl.’ ONE OF MY earliest TV memories is from the sixties – watching Batman on a black and white set with my big brother Keith.
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