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• Fair for Its Day: Among the recurring characters were a local gay couple, Marty and Darryl. While they were portrayed as the usual Camp Gay stereotypes of the era, Barney always treated them with dignity and occasionally made a point of calling Wojo out on his homophobia. Uniformed officer Zatelli wasn't camp at all, and was only revealed to be a closeted homosexual after he'd already been a recurring character for some time; later episodes dealt with his fear of the effect being outed would have on his career, and his later coming out himself in support of other gays on the force.
• Values Dissonance: The rape episode.
  • Additionally, instances of battered wives were Played for Laughs in a few episodes.
  • The second season episode "Heat Wave" combined the two for extra helpings of dissonance. The A-plot involves Wojo almost being raped while disguised as a woman to catch muggers, and Detective Wentworth being offended that the would-be rapist didn't pick her. The B-plot involves a battered wife with a huge, ghastly bruise over most of her face deciding whether to press charges against her husband. Lots of laughs (from a live audience, not a laugh track) all around, and the applause she got for deciding not to sign the complaint was much bigger and more enthusiastic than the applause she got for coming back a couple of minutes later and signing it.