The title of this episode, "My Favorite Magician," plays on the title of the 1964-66 series Bill Bixby and Ray Walston worked on together, My Favorite Martian (1963), as well on Bixby's 1973-74 series The Magician (1973).
This episode reunites Bill Bixby with his former co-star Ray Walston from My Favorite Martian (1963), as well as reacquainting him with his former profession when he played illusionist Anthony Blake in the one-season series The Magician (1973).
In the diner kitchen, Jasper tells how he was shown a trick by the sorcerer Chung Ling Soo before his bullet catching trick "misfired". Chung Ling Soo was the stage name of an English magician who did indeed get killed accidentally when an attempted bullet catching trick went disastrously wrong. However, he died in 1918 when Ray Walston would have been only 4 years old.