William Boyett says his character, a police Sergeant, was 2 away from 30, meaning he had worked 28 years and was 2 years away from retirement for 30 years of service. 28 years earlier, Boyett had played a police Sergeant on
Highway Patrol (1955). In the intervening years, he was well known for playing another police Sergeant, that of Sgt. MacDonald on
Adam-12 (1968).