This was the last of the 14 total episodes that involved the Highway Patrol helicopter. The series' fans enjoyed the "copter" episodes very much, but they extracted a toll on the star. Broderick Crawford told an interviewer that he suffered various injuries entering and exiting the helicopter so many times, including a broken ankle.
Although they played a married couple, Ruth Clifford was 15 years older than Frank Harding. She would outlive him by a considerable margin, passing away in November 1998 at age 98 while he died 16 years earlier in November 1982 at age 67.