Due to the collection of seashells in her trailer, Rossi jokingly asks if they are filming "Jaws 3" nearby. In reality, Jaws 3-D (1983) was released three and a half years after this episode was aired.
Carly Mitchell has just made a film with John Travolta and wonders whether Rossi is going to ask her what he is really like. Jack Bannon (Art Donovan) was married to Travolta's elder sister Ellen Travolta, who played Pamela Bethune in Charlatan (1979), from 1983 until his death in 2017.
Carly Mitchell and Mark Donner were born in 1967.
This was Peggy Ann Garner's penultimate on camera appearance nearly five years before her death from pancreatic cancer in 1984 at age 52.
The attorney for children spoke about it being "the Year of the Child." 1979, the year that this episode originally aired, was designated the International Year of the Child by the United Nations. The goal of the observance was to spread awareness about problems that impacted children.