The character of Wally Stone is loosely based on that of Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, who similarly was a jumbo-sized comedian implicated but never convicted in the death of an actress at a wild Hollywood party. The subsequent scandal and trials abruptly ended Arbuckle's promising career, as it did Wally Stone's. Only two years prior to this episode's broadcast, a film loosely based on Arbuckle's story was released, The Wild Party (1975).
Makeup man Layne Britton, credited as "Shotgun Britton," stepped before the cameras to play the character of Shotgun Casey.
The previous week, Hutch was nervous about singing onstage. Here, he is nervous about acting in front of the cameras, in a bit part.
Starsky uses a revolver that looks like Hutch arm (Colt Python .357 magnum) during the final showdown with Wally Stone (Chuck McCann) instead of his trusty automatic 9mm (Colt M1911A1).
Starsky, an avid baseball fan and baseball card collector, tells Fireball that Mickey Mantle was never really that fast. Actually, he was. From 1955 thru 1962 Mantle stole 108 bases while being caught just 15 times for an astonishing 88% success rate.