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Cagney and Lacey meet Hawkeye and Mulcahy
I was just working out that in 1982, the year of the first season of Cagney and Lacey, Mulcahy will be 64 - so, presumably, Hawkeye will be 61 (I think I worked out three years difference at one point, though I can't off the top of my head figure out my exact logic).

Both of them not far off retirement, but not yet retired. They'd probably be an insanely cute couple, officially Not Out but in practice everyone officially/unofficially knows, with the possible/probable exception of Mulcahy's employers - if he's still working as a public school teacher.

(1982 was also the year the US CDC formally defined and named AIDS, and the first gay men's health organisations were being set up to react to it.)

Obviously neither one would have committed a crime. But witnesses to one? Or one of them a possible suspect? Actually I can see either one of them getting arrested for non-cooperation, or at least taken to the precinct. Hm. Basically I think I'm seeing them as decoration on a C&L story, which means I need to work out a C&L story. I guess.

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