Quincy is on the Hallmark Channel late at night - I used to love that show and was watching it tonight after the Spenser for Hire at midnight. Have I mentioned I *love* Spenser?? <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Anyway, Quincy of course starts out with a dead body. And they don't know how to identify it. And then they say, "Well we can try this tattoo"!! It ends up the tattoo is one of the keys to the show! This was back in the early 80s too!
Here's the dead guy's tattoo on his hand:
and here's the matching one on the guy that shows up later -