Rare for a later Columbo episode, Falk appears briefly without his trademark Raincoat, using it to test a theory about how the murderer moved the body.
A bust of Alfred Hitchcock is prominently displayed between the two arcade games in Alex Brady's office. Hitchcock was a shareholder in MCA-Universal studios and spent his last 20 years at the studio.
When Columbo visits Alex at the studio he is stood in front of a desert scene which changes to a Colonial Viper firing on 2 Cylon Raiders from Battlestar Galactica but the laser sounds are different from the ones used in the show.
Leonard Fisher bought an ACM Studios ticket for Tour 4 on Tram 27 at 3:12pm on February 20, 1989. This episode originally aired on February 27, 1989.
This episode takes place in February 1989.