When Chet Kincaid and Raymond's mother are driving around looking for him at the beginning of the episode, she mentions that Raymond had been watching the television show "about the man who goes around the country on a motorcycle," and says that he is Raymond's hero. This is an apparent reference to the Michael Parks series "Then Came Bronson." Although it was in production for only one season, the one before this (1969-70), it might well have still been in reruns at the time that this episode was filmed.