The woman shopping for fireplace accessories, Florida Freibus, is better known to audiences as the simultaneously indulgent yet long-suffering mother to Dobie Gillis in the television series from a decade earlier, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
This was the first original episode of SANFORD & SON. All of the previous episodes were remakes of episodes from the UK sitcom STEPTOE & SON, which SANFORD & SON was based on.
The gunman states the briefcase contains $70,000; adjusted for inflation this amount would the equivalent to $516,488 in March of 2024.