Yet another script by Donald Ross showing one of his trademarks: naming characters after jazz musicians. Ross, who wrote the Timex All-Star Swing Festival (1972), this time paid tribute to Bob Crosby Orchestra, a 1930's band led by Bing Crosby's brother Bob that played a fusion of Dixieland and swing. Among the Crosby musicians paid tribute to in this show are trumpeter Sterling Bose, trombonist Ward Silloway and vocalist Kay Weber. Another character, Clark Randall, is named after a wealthy dilettante who in 1935 hired the Crosby band (before Crosby himself was involved with it) to back him as a singer on a record date. Still another character, Pauline Byrne, is named after a singer who recorded with Artie Shaw in 1940.
Second 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.