This episode co-stars Don Johnson's ex-wife, Melanie Griffith, and is their only appearance together as characters in a full-length fictional work after their first divorce in 1976 but before their second marriage in 1989. Griffith was married to Steven Bauer at the time.
Christine Von Marburg was named for Dick Wolf's then-wife, Christine Marburg, to whom he was married from 1983-2005 and had three children with.
This episode originally had a longer sex scene between Crockett and Christine, but NBC deemed the sequence "too hot for television" and ordered it cut back when repeated. This edited version is the only one to appear since, including in syndication, on the DVD releases, on NBC.com, and on Peacock. The uncut scene runs almost two minutes, while the revised version runs 1:12. A similar incident occurred in Rites of Passage (1985) involving a sex scene with Tubbs and Valerie Gordon.
Lou Albano and Afa Anoai, who played Togaru's henchmen, were professional wrestlers in real life. Both are WWE Hall Of Famers and the latter is a member of the famed Anoa'i wrestling family, which also includes Dwayne Johnson.