Inspector Luger gives as his forced retirement date as May 25, 1982. This is 5 days after the series finale on May 20, 1982. This could've been a hint that the eighth season was planned as the last.
Martin Garner and Anna Berger, who play the Buckmans in this episode, played a different married couple earlier in The Rand Report (1977).
Martin Garner made 5 appearances on Barney Miller, as Mr. Frumkus, Steven Himmel, Samuel Tragash, Martin Golden and Ira Buckman.