Unlike all other episodes during the series, this one has no actual 'cold open' before the main theme, only the "previously on" segment.
This episode is an example of how rough the language became starting in the third season, with the frequent use of curse words rarely used in the first two seasons.
It is revealed that Zito used to be an alcoholic, but according to Switek, he hadn't had a drop in five years and "went to all the meetings". No mention of Zito's alcoholism was ever made on the show before this.
Danny Allred is said to have met Crockett in Vietnam in 1971. Crockett's age in A Bullet for Crockett (1988) is estimated by the air-paramedic to be 35; this would have made him 18 in 1971, the youngest it was possible for a serving infantryman to be during the Vietnam War.