This two-part episode was the pilot for a potential spin-off series titled "Off Duty". Each episode was to focus on one of the detectives' home life. In the early version of this idea, Wojo and recurring character Det. Janice Wentworth played by Linda Lavin were to move in together. But by the time this episode was produced, Lavin was starring on Alice (1976) and Wentworth no longer appeared. Other episodes would have focused on Miller's family (who were featured in the first season but phased out), Harris and Dietrich as roommates, and Fish and his wife as foster parents to many kids. This latter part of the original version became the spin-off series Fish (1977). Moreover, Wojo said that Wentworth, reminded him of a hooker.
This two-part episode originally aired as a special hour-long episode.
The unhappy traveler, Mr. Mallory, parodies the British adventurer, George Mallory. George Herbert Leigh Mallory perished in 1924, climbing Mount Everest.
Colonel Charles Dundee parodies the name of Amos Charles Dundee from the 1965 cavalry drama, "Major Dundee."
Wojo says he always seems to be attracted to "fallen" women. Nancy, his girlfriend, played by Darlene Parks, played a "fallen" woman (April Jones) 4 years earlier in "The Happy Hooker".