The first 5 minutes is exactly the same as that of 'The Crying Child' (S3-E6). They both start with Starsky looking for Uncle Elmo's toy store with Hutch, then getting a report of a robbery at a laundromat. Hutch gets Starsky's clothes, goes into the laundromat, and Starsky bursts in and they arrest the robbers. After that, the episodes go in different directions.
Glaser and Soul reportedly went crazy while shooting the scene in the toy shop, putting rattlesnakes down people's backs and having a pea shooter war.