Lady Blue is a crime drama starring Jamie Rose

Jamie Rose

Jamie Rose is an American actress possibly best known for playing Vickie Gioberti in the prime time 1980s soap opera Falcon Crest. Rose played the role from 1981 to 1983, leaving at the beginning at the show's third season...

 as a Chicago female homicide detective Katy Mahoney. The show was produced by MGM/UA Television

MGM Television

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television is an American television production/distribution launched in 1955 and a subsidiary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc....

 and aired on ABC-TV

American Broadcasting Company

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 from September 26, 1985 to January 25, 1986 for 13 episodes. It was cancelled after one season after low ratings in its Thursday night slot (against formidable competition from NBC's Top 20 hits Cheers

Cheers

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and Night Court

Night Court

Night Court is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984, to May 20, 1992. The setting was the night shift of a Manhattan court, presided over by the young, unorthodox Judge Harold T. "Harry" Stone...

, and CBS's Top 30 hit Simon and Simon), but also because it was considered too violent for its time. The show later aired on Saturday nights but the show failed there as well (against competition from NBC's Top 20 hits The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls

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and 227

227 (TV series)

227 is an American situation comedy that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, until May 6, 1990. The series starred Marla Gibbs as a sharp-tongued, inner-city resident gossip and housewife, Mary Jenkins...

).

It ranked 72nd out of 82 programs that season, and averaged a 10.7 household rating.

It was said that Katy Mahoney was the female version of Harry Callahan aka Dirty Harry, prompting television critics to refer to Mahoney's character as "Dirty Harriet".

Plot

Katy Mahoney is a tough female homicide detective in Chicago who grew up in the shadow of her father Frank and her brother Jessie, both Chicago cops killed in the line of duty. After joining the force herself, Mahoney spent years enforcing the law fairly and was highly respected by her superiors, but after her married partner (and lover) was killed as well in the line of duty during a drug bust gone bad, Mahoney began using excessive force to fight crime. When a gun fight with crack dealers gets a civilian shot, Mahoney is transferred to the Matron Squad under Lt. Terry McNichols as a last chance to save her job. From the start Mchoney and McNichols butt heads over her attitude and continued use of excessive force to fight crime.

Cast

Actor	Role
Jamie Rose Jamie Rose Jamie Rose is an American actress possibly best known for playing Vickie Gioberti in the prime time 1980s soap opera Falcon Crest. Rose played the role from 1981 to 1983, leaving at the beginning at the show's third season...	Katy Mahoney
Bruce A. Young Bruce A. Young Bruce A. Young is an American television, film, and stage actor who is perhaps best known for his role as Capt. Simon Banks in the UPN science fiction police drama The Sentinel. Young had roles in the films Risky Business, Jurassic Park III, The Color of Money, Basic Instinct, Into Temptation,...	Cassidy
Ron Dean Ron Dean Ron Dean is an American film and television actor. He appeared in such movies as Risky Business, The Breakfast Club, Cocktail, The Babe, The Fugitive, The Client, and The Dark Knight. He also appeared on the U.S. TV show Early Edition as Det...	Sgt. Gino Gianetti
Danny Aiello Danny Aiello Daniel Louis "Danny" Aiello, Jr. is an American actor who has appeared in numerous motion pictures, including Once Upon a Time in America, Ruby, The Godfather: Part II, Hudson Hawk, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Moonstruck, Léon, Two Days in the Valley, and Dinner Rush...	Lt. Terry McNichols
Ralph Foody Ralph Foody Ralph Foody was a character actor. He has several screen credits from the 1980s, but is probably best known for his bit part in Home Alone and its sequel as stereotypical 1930s mobster "Johnny" in its meta-film Angels with Filthy Souls.He was known for his incredible wit and was often referred to...	Capt. Flynn

Controversy

Numerous watchdog

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lists rated the program as the most violent (in 1985), with at least one reporting 50 acts of violence in one hour.