When this aired in February 1983, the song Gloria by the late Laura Branigan, who died in 2004 at age 52 was a recent hit. The song hit second place on the Hot 100 from November 27 through December 11, 1982. It stayed in the Top 40 songs for 22 weeks.
Robert Hegyes plays Luther Collier. He was well known as the character Epstein on Welcome Back, Kotter (1975). This immediately follows Journey to a Spacecraft (1983), which had another alumni of Welcome Back, Kotter- Ron Palillo who played Horshack. Both Hegyes and Palillo died in 2012, Hegyes at age 60 in January and Palillo at age 63 in August.
Grossman appears on the Million Dollar Question Quiz Show. In Name Your Price (1977), Poncherello also appeared on a game show and lost when he failed to correctly guess the price of a Kawasaki motorcycle similar to the one he used for police duty.
The parking ticket envelope Poncherello finds in the truck has an address of 4130 Overland Ave. PO Box 3785 City, California 90230. 4130 Overland Ave. 90230 is in Culver City and is the address of the Mayme A. Clayton Museum, however in 1983 it was a Los Angeles County Courthouse that was later decommissioned and transferred to the museum circa 2006.