Kojak's trademark lollypop makes its debut.
In the opening shot of the show right after the credits when they show the city, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. This was just 8 months after it opened.
Dick Balduzzi who appears in this episode on screen with Telly Savalas - worked with Savalas three years earlier, playing the American soldier "Fisher" within the platoon that Savalas' character 'Big Joe' leads in the film Kelly's Heroes.