Just prior to this episode, guests Mike Henry and Victor French had co-starred in Howard Hawks' Rio Lobo (1970)
Mike Henry would go on to appear in all of Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham's Smokey and the Bandit films. Henry played the son of Jackie Gleason.
Donna Garrett, the girl who's killed in the cold open, had, the previous year, worked as Raquel Welch's stunt double for 100 Rifles, which co-starred Burt Reynolds.
Burt Reynolds brings up both the then-current movie, Midnight Cowboy, and titular actor Jon Voight. He'd star with Voight in his breakthrough, Deliverance, two years later.