It is mentioned that Murdock worked for the C.I.A. a couple of times during the Vietnam War.
This is a Hannnibal-light episode. George Peppard appears in just one scene of this episode.
Dwight Schultz and guest star George McDaniel previously worked together five years earlier on the TV series Hill Street Blues (1981).
Dian and Denise Gallup were two of the Doublemint twins during the 1980s.
When Murdock wins the trip to Hawaii on Wheel of Fortune, the hotel he is going to stop at is The King Kamehameha. This is the place that Magnum pi frequents and Higgins works in the tv show Magnum PI.