In the last scene, when Mary and Lou tell Ted they are going to change the name of the news to "Ted Baxter's 6 O'Clock News," Ted asks: "Is my name above the title, just like 'Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho'?" In real life Ted Knight appeared in "Psycho," in an uncredited role.
Ted mentions "Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho". Ted Knight is briefly in that movie at the end, as one of Norman Bates' prison guards