So - what DID Cagney and Lacey carry??

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Sharron Gless - and Tyne Daley ... remember?? Ok so - you need to be a tad ''up there'' in years. I was chattin about this to a buddy and danged if I can remember .... other than IIRC they both carried snubbies.

So - what did they have in fact ..... officionado's ... the stage is yours!:p
 
I am "old" enough to remember the show. I don't recall watching it , no idea on the guns.

I was more of a Mannix with a Barracuda , Frank Cannon with a Lincoln, whom IIRC both carried Colt Detective Specials .... Dirty Harry's gun is a given...As is Ness's gun in the b/w series of Elliot Ness...;)

Now the fella , Paul whom did Perry Mason's Investigations in the b/w series...never got a good look at what he sometimes had...

Take me back to the five and dime Jimmy Dean...
 
I saw an episode of 'Judging Amy' recently where visiting Sharon Gless played show regular Tyne Daly's old college buddy. They both are large enough now to carry a drum magazine equipped Tommy gun under their moo moo's. Of course, the years have had a similar effect on me... my driver's license indicates 'Continued on back' for my photo - and, I now have my own zip code.

I didn't watch the old show... sorry! I do remember a TV movie re-do, some years back, however.

Stainz
 
NYPD detectives in those days probably had Colt snubs or S&W M36's.

Both Gless and Daly are virulent anti-gunners, as I recall.

Lone Star
 
"...Tyne Daley was getting big by the end of C&L. I'm too young to really remember the show much, but I remember the brunette being the fat one."

I was going to say they carried ' about 30 pounds of excess lard' but you more or less beat me to it.


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Wouldn't have been "Dick Specials" they had would they?




C'mon, someone had to say it.:evil:
 
Didn't one or both actresses have kids while they were doing the show?
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I recall Tyne daly was genuinely ''preggers'' .... and also seem to think that Sharron might have .. but IIRC she was not married, so could be wrong.

S&W M10 sounds very feasable ... as would Det' Special ... but memory is so hazy, I can't even ''see'' if hammer or shrouded!!:p
 
If memory serves me correctly, the two large gals just didn't compare to a good Starsky and Hutch episode! I more than likely changed channels to the Dukes of Hazzard.



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Best I could find...
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Ceestand .. good sleuthing and thx for the trouble. The pic is only 71 dpi so hard to do much blow up but here are the girls guns enlarged to 300% ... may not even help that much .... first Cagney's then Lacey's.

Anyways .. I reserve judgment for now ... just not quite dead sure .. the foresights should help and also the ejector exposure. Just wish I could see cylinder latch! I'm getting a ''Colt feeling'' right now but am less experienced in ID's than many.


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lacey_snub.jpg
 
Mowgli - thx to you also. That pic is 200 dpi so enlarges a tad better. Great look at the grip - and still seems Colt to me ... tho the Colt officionados know way better than me.

These snubs appear to have exposed hammers too.


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Looks like a '70s vintage Detective Special, but I remember that having the more ramped front sight being matched up with a shrouded ejector rod... It was the cover gun on a 1971 or 72 Police Handguns thick annual-type book I still have laying around from my Dad's days of packing.

As a teen (okay, I'll confess to age 18!), I sometimes carried a 60s or slightly earlier vintage Detective Special in an "FBI-style" holster that was fast but not IPSC-legal. Exposed ejector like what it appears to be in that pic. The reflection back at the cylider latch is consistent with the shape and finish of the Colt style. The forward edge of a S&W snub is far more "square" to the barrel plane, while the Colt is round on the front grabbing edge.
 
I just know Lacey had a .38 cuz there was an episode where she shot a guy and he kept coming after the first shot, so she shot again and he died. Later she lamented how if she only had a .45, the first shot would have disabled him, and he wouldn't be dead.


What can I say, my mom used to like the show.
 
For heavens sake!!! I'm not only old enough to remember the show - but must have been whimped enough at the time to have actually watched an episode or two. Can't say I watched a show where they actually pulled their guns though - so I have no idea what they were.

Here is some additional trivia though - an earlier show called Toma. Apparently based in part on a real life "hippy" cop who had a real adversion to ever pulling a gun in self defence. One of the lines from the show that I remember when asked about his gun was " it's a great skull & window buster". What kind of revolver did he carry???
 
Yep, I had to be watching Ducks of Hazzard instead. Also, I had to be much younger then, because now, Sharron looked pretty good back then.

:what:


It's Hell getting older. LOL

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