Instrumental portions of the refrain from John Denver's 1971 song, "Take Me Home, Country Roads" are heard during this episode.
The plot of this episode involves the crash of an airplane. During World War II, William Conrad was a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Force.
The plane that crashes is a 1970 BEECH A36 Fixed wing single engine, #N4608A.
The plane that Cannon arrives in, and boards at the end, is a 1970 Beechcraft King Air twin turboprop, #N100BW. Its registration was later changed to N696JB and it was written off in a non-fatal accident near the Uvalde, TX airport on March 28, 1990.
In the opening scene, Woody and BJ Long arrive in a 1970 full-sized Pontiac (Catalina or Bonneville) convertible. The car was unmistakable not only for the added bull-horns and other country-bling; the controversial 1970 models were unique, they had the body of the 1960s models but with a stand-up Rolls-Royce-esque grill, similar to what Pontiac would use in the all-new 1971 - 1976 models, in place of the "Pontiac Beak" that had distinguished 1960s Pontiacs through 1969. The 1970 also featured European-looking circular "horn grilles", a feature not seen in Pontiacs before or since.