{"podcast":{"title":"80s TV Ladies","slug":"80s-tv-ladies-5566694","podcast_index_feed_id":5566694,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5585115/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/80s-tv-ladies","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/67b8bd2b5d23221d0e997e5c8a0bc7ca.jpg","author":"Susan Lambert","episode_count":121,"summary":"4-time Podcast Awards Winner! Webby nominated for Best Indie Podcast. 80s TV Ladies is dedicated to the beloved female-driven shows of the 1980s! Do you love 80s pop culture, television and fabulous women? On our show, you’ll hear a breakdown of how these shows got made, how they were influenced by the times and, in turn, how they influenced pop-culture trends to follow. We love discussing the “two-steps forward, one-step-back” lens of media-driven feminism. Join hosts Susan Lambert Hatem and Sharon Johnson as they talk about the fabulous ladies of television: Cagney & Lacey, Designing Women, A Different World, The Golden Girls and more. With special guests, TV creators and stars! Do these shows we hold so dear hold up? Let's find out. Season 1: We examine three “detective duo shows” this season, with multiple episodes and awesome guests for each TV show we cover. Scarecrow and Mrs. King Remington Steele Cagney & Lacey Season 2: Multiple episodes per TV show exploring representation and behind-the-scenes insight in science fiction, drama and sitcoms! Queer representation in 70s and 80s 9 to 5 television show It's a Living Designing Women Ladies of the 80s: A Divas Christmas Star T…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-24T16:17:17.925648+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/80s-tv-ladies-5566694"},"episode":{"title":"Writing Fearless Women: Cagney & Lacey, China Beach, and Sisters | Georgia Jeffries","slug":"writing-fearless-women-cagney-lacey-china-beach-and-sisters-georgia-jeffries","published_at":"2026-03-04T07:40:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/80s-tv-ladies-5566694/writing-fearless-women-cagney-lacey-china-beach-and-sisters-georgia-jeffries","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/80s-tv-ladies-5566694","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/writing-fearless-women-cagney-lacey-china-beach-and-sisters-georgia-jeffries--70433091","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/op3.dev/e/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70433091/413_finished_v5.mp3","summary":"“ Barney and I were interviewed about that episode on Entertainment Tonight because the word “condom” had never been used on television before.” - Georgia Jeffries, Cagney & Lacey writer Hosts Susan Lambert Hatem and Sharon Johnson welcome writer-producer-professor Georgia Jeffries, an Award-winning writer known for Cagney & Lacey, China Beach, and Sisters. Jeffries recounts growing up as an only child, loving The Twilight Zone, reading history, and finding an early spark for writing through school assignments and UCLA journalism and creative writing courses. She talks about her time working as a freelance journalist while caring for her family. And the pivotal LAPD ride-along that inspired her first produced Cagney & Lacey episode, “An Unusual Occurrence,” which won a WGA Award. She compares the culture of Cagney & Lacey with China Beach, discusses unproduced pilots and projects (including HBO series, and an unmade Cher/Jessica Lange/to-be-directed by Frank Oz movie, Confessions) She reflects on writing episodes that tackled addiction, AIDS-era conversations, and sexual assault. Jeffries also shares details about her novel, The Younger Girl, current writing projects, and advice to emerging writers. 00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro 01:33 Childhood TV Influences 03:56 Good Girl Expectations 05:16 Finding Writing Path 07:48 Early Jobs and Teaching 10:43 LAPD Ride Along Story 14:34 Cagney and Lacey Breakthrough 16:09 Feminism and California Move 18:09 Film Journalism to Screenwriting 19:34 Unmade Cher Lange Film 24:16 Women in Film Opens Doors 29:47 HBO Script to Book Rights 34:54 Working Mother on Set 36:14 Writers Room Culture Then 39:55 Favorite Episodes Tease 40:09 Why This Story Matters 40:47 Writing Cagney and Lacey 44:28 TV Breaking Taboos4 6:45 Breaki…","meta_description":"“ Barney and I were interviewed about that episode on Entertainment Tonight because the word “condom” had never been used on television before.” - Georgia…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5022,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/80s-tv-ladies-5566694/episodes/writing-fearless-women-cagney-lacey-china-beach-and-sisters-georgia-jeffries/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/80s-tv-ladies-5566694/writing-fearless-women-cagney-lacey-china-beach-and-sisters-georgia-jeffries.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}