Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless together again!

I was so excited to participate in an interview last week with television icons Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly.

While they are, of course, best known for their stellar work on Cagney and Lacey – one or the other won the Emmy each of the six years the series was on the air – they have done so much other work since then that is so varied and so memorable.

Miss Gless spent five glorious seasons playing Debbie Novotny on Showtime’s Queer as Folk wearing an eccentric red wig and dishing out advice as well as food at the local diner where her gay son Michael (Hal Sparks) and his group of gay pals often congregated. Loved that series so much.

Then there is Miss Daly and her stellar six years as the indomitable Maxine Gray and CBS’s Judging Amy. She wasn’t just a mother and grandmother on the show, she was a tenacious social worker who cared about her clients and tried to do right by them even if it got her into trouble.

Gless did a few guest spots on Amy as a favor to Daly who had done a memorable guest appearance on Gless’s series The Trials of Rosie O’Neil which lasted two seasons on CBs in the early 90s.

Now Gless is on USA Network’s Burn Notice which is in its third season. Daly guest stars on Thursday night’s episode (pictured above) and it will be a real treat to see these two formidable ladies together again.

To read my write-up of the interview with them, go to Fancast.com.