Here’s Why Meg Foster Was Fired From ‘Cagney & Lacey’

I have to admit that I have always been mesmerized by Meg Foster‘s unique, pale blue eyes, which I first took note of back when she starred in an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic literary work, The Scarlet Letter.  The next time I saw Meg on TV, it was on a new CBS crime drama called Cagney & Lacey. And then, without any sort of warning, Meg was gone, replaced by an actress Sharon Gless, previously of another CBS TV show, the Wayne Rogers comedy House Calls. So why was Meg Foster fired from Cagney & Lacey? The answer has to do with the kind of female cop TV executives though viewers would get behind.