Cagney & Lacey Season 5, Ep. 8 "Filial Duty"

Years of drinking finally put Chris' father into the hospital. Meanwhile, Mary Beth's pregancy forces her to make changes to her work routine.
  • Runtime: 49 minutes
  • Original air date: December 02, 1985
  • Network: MGM
 
 
 
 

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1. On the Street
  September 30, 1985
Chris and Mary Beth try to convince a teenage runaway, who's shunned her family's wealth and privilege for a life on the streets, to help them convict her pimp.
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2. Ordinary Hero
  October 7, 1985
Cagney and Lacey feel for the key witness in an upcoming trial, an illegal alien whose reward for his help will be deportation upon the trial's conclusion.
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3. The Psychic
  October 21, 1985
Cagney doubts the abilities of a psychic who's been hired to locate a missing woman by her family.
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4. Lottery
  October 28, 1985
When a lottery jackpot has one more claimant than there should be, Cagney and Lacey try to find out who's got the counterfeit ticket. Meanwhile, the Laceys prepare for an IRS audit.
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5. Entrapment
  November 4, 1985
Mary Beth faces an ethical dilemma when she has to choose between supporting Chris' claims against a known drug dealer, or admitting she knows nothing about it.
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6. The Clinic
  November 11, 1985
When a firebomb at an abortion clinic kills a patient, it ignites a debate over whether the death of a fetus constitutes a second murder.
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7. Mothers & Sons
  November 25, 1985
A mother's alibi for her son stands in the way of criminal charges, despite other compelling evidence. Meanwhile, Mary Beth's son gets on the wrong side of the law himself.
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8. Filial Duty
  December 2, 1985
Years of drinking finally put Chris' father into the hospital. Meanwhile, Mary Beth's pregancy forces her to make changes to her work routine.
 
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9. Old Ghosts
  December 9, 1985
Chris is accused of being a coward when a robbery suspect eludes her in a chase. Meanwhile, her brother, Brian, comes from California to check on their father.
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10. Power
  December 16, 1985
Chris gets to fill in for Lt. Samuels as watch commander, but dislikes that one of her first assignments is to force Mary Beth onto maternity leave.
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11. Play It Again, Santa
  December 23, 1985
Cagney and Newman work a case involving music rights issues.
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12. Rebukes
  January 6, 1986
Mary Beth's energetic replacement turns vigilante when she angers over the time it's taking to get to arrest a suspected rapist.
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13. Act of Conscience
  January 13, 1986
The new replacement for Mary Beth comes with a history the 14th Precinct doesn't like--he broke the blue wall of silence when other police were taking bribes, and the Desk Sergeant is taking bets on how long his stay with them will be.
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14. DWI
  January 20, 1986
While running the night shift, a case of DWI begins to make Chris confront her own demons with the bottle.
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15. The Gimp
  January 27, 1986
An advocate for the handicapped demands something be done about a rash of robberies against the disabled. Chris goes undercover in a wheelchair and finds herself smitten with the activist.
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16. Family Connections
  February 10, 1986
Chris races to get a laboring Mary Beth to the hospital before the baby comes out. Meanwhile, she has to deal with her father's new girlfriend.
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17. Post Partum
  February 17, 1986
Chris tries to help a West Point cadet who refuses to help himself avoid court martial due to his honor code. Mary Beth receives a visit from her father, who abandoned her and her mother when she was little.
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18. The Man Who Shot Trotsky
  March 3, 1986
With Mary Beth back from maternity leave, her and Chris again go after drug dealer Mansfield, with the help of a young, Hispanic informant.
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19. Exit Stage Centre
  March 10, 1986
The apparent suicide of a stage actress starts to look like murder when Cagney and Lacey discover everyone involved in the play seems to have a motive.
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20. Capitalism
  April 7, 1986
When a lawyer who has made a living helping his fellow Cambodians winds up murdered, Chris and Mary Beth learn he may have been profitting from misfortunes too much. In the meantime, Chris parts ways with her car.
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21. Extradition
  May 5, 1986
Chris and Mary Beth go to California to bring back a defendant who skipped on his bail.
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22. A Safe Place
  May 12, 1986
Cagney and Lacey race against time to catch a thief, whose latest haul included plutonium, before his radiation sickness becomes terminal.
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23. Model Citizen
  May 25, 1986
To find the murderer of a labor leader, Cagney and Lacey must first find out why anyone would want the apparently squeaky-clean man dead. In the meantime, Cagney gets a visit from her niece.
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24. Parting Shots
  May 26, 1986
The 14th Precinct suffers the loss of one of their own, as Cagney and Lacey work to find out who shot and killed Det. Newman.
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Episode 8, "Filial Duty"
Synopsis: Years of drinking finally put Chris' father into the hospital. Meanwhile, Mary Beth's pregancy forces her to make changes to her work routine.
Original air date: December 2, 1985
Runtime: 49 minutes
ASIN: B002DNDPL8
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #218,824 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
Cagney & Lacey Season 5
Synopsis: This groundbreaking series stars Tyne Daley and Sharon Gless as two tough, intelligent New York undercover cops who fight both crime and the chauvinism of their colleagues. Cagney & Lacey also pushed the envelope on provocative social. As well-made as it was controversial, the series garnered numerous Emmys over its seven seasons.
Season year: 1986
Network: MGM
ASIN: B002DAUU28
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