Abe Vigoda's final appearance as a regular cast member. He would make two more appearances on the show.
NYPD officers must retire no later than the day prior to their 63rd birthday
Fish is given a New York City Municipal Bond that matures in 1997. Fish says he "would have been 83," meaning he was born in 1914. Abe Vigoda was born in 1921 and lived to 95 years old, passing in 2016.
This was the second and last episode in which all of the series' eight principal cast members (Hal Linden, Max Gail, Abe Vigoda, Ron Glass, Steve Landesberg, Jack Soo, Ron Carey and James Gregory) appeared; the first had been The Rand Report (1977).
According to the numbers given, Fish joined the force in 1939 at the age of 25, and was born ca. 1914.