The first time Harry McGraw Jerry Orbach appears since episode Death Takes a Dive (1987) due to having his own short lived spin off series The Law and Harry McGraw (1987)
First appearance of Louis Herthum who would later go on to play Sheriff Metzger's Deputy Andy Broom in episode Thicker Than Water (1991) until the cancellation of the series.
When Jessica removes the newspaper clipping from the scrap book and then proceeds to look in her phone directory the hands filmed are from two different people - one set is young hands the other set is JB /Landsbury.
After Harry McGraw is arrested, Gilhooley's bartender Cookie shows Jessica Fletcher a newspaper supposedly documenting the arrest. The article text beneath the incorrectly-spelled headline "Homocide On Crenshaw Ave." is lifted verbatim from two retractions published on page two of the March 3rd, 1989 issue of the Los Angeles Times.
The first article corrects a quote related to Lt. Gov. Leo T. McCarthy's withdrawal from that year's election for governor, while the second corrects information about a culinary union leader acquitted in a mafia case. Above the fake headline, a third article lifted from the same issue of the LA Times reports on a just-completed federal racketeering case against anti-abortion demonstrators in Philadelphia, PA.
Together, these inclusions indicate that filming for the episode must have been completed after March 3rd, 1989, less than two months before this episode first aired.
The first article corrects a quote related to Lt. Gov. Leo T. McCarthy's withdrawal from that year's election for governor, while the second corrects information about a culinary union leader acquitted in a mafia case. Above the fake headline, a third article lifted from the same issue of the LA Times reports on a just-completed federal racketeering case against anti-abortion demonstrators in Philadelphia, PA.
Together, these inclusions indicate that filming for the episode must have been completed after March 3rd, 1989, less than two months before this episode first aired.