Carl Weathers appears in the original network version. Despite his on-air credit, his role was edited out of the syndicated version.
A very thinly-disguised rewrite of This Case Is Closed (1974), with an identical plot and very similar dialogue. After vociferous complaints from the writers and producers of The Rockford Files (1974), the writing credit was given over entirely to Stephen J. Cannell (teleplay) and Roy Huggins (story, under his pseudonym "John Thomas James"), who had together written the original Rockford Files episode.