This episode is often left off some streaming services, likely due to licensing issues with music.
Broadcast as part of the first season in the UK, making this the final episode of the first season. It would be nineteen months however until Season 2 would be broadcast in the UK, mainly due to Twin Peaks (1990) taking its slot from late 1990 to mid 1991.
In this episode it is revealed that Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) won a Nobel Prize, presumably in Physics.
In the original history, Chris Stone was killed on the set of "Disco Inferno" due to an unsafe stunt on April 3, 1976.
When Sam is telling Chris about how he believes disco won't last forever, he says "Maybe in a few years all the disco maniacs will become Urban Cowboys", thus slyly using his knowledge of the future by referencing the fact that John Travolta would go from making films like Saturday Night Fever (1977) to Urban Cowboy (1980) as trends changed.