While the city or state name is never or rarely mentioned in the series, here the Governor's mansion is referenced along with the Sacramento police, which places the series in California.
Seven years after the broadcast of this episode, John Forsythe and Lloyd Bochner would be reunited on Dynasty (1981) playing friends-turned-enemies, echoing the casual friendliness followed by contention they demonstrate here.
Just a year earlier, Ralph Meeker played the Chief of Police in Slow Boy (1973). Here, he's a police sergeant.