Last appearance of the Tawnia Baker character. She was written off the show because George Peppard didn't want a female character in the team, and let her marry.
The nuclear cooling tower shown is the Trojan nuclear power plant, which was located outside of Rainier, Oregon on the Columbia River. The tower was imploded in 2006.
Both Barry Van Dyke and Dirk Benedict starred in different versions of Battlestar Galactica. Benedict was Starbuck in the original. Van Dyke starred in the reboot in 1980.
This two-hour TV movie is usually shown as two parts in syndication.