Guest star Diane Canova lived with Steve Landesberg (Dietrich) off-screen.
When this episode first aired, Diana Canova was also starring as Corrine Tate-Flotsky on the soap opera satire Soap (1977), which was in its third season and, like Barney Miller (1975), aired on ABC.
Mr. Kessler tells the government official to keep Hamilton what's-his-name out of the Club Aphrodite. He refers to White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan. Mr. Jordan was frequently accused of drug use and sexual promiscuity, none of which turned out to be true.
Walter Janovitz was in a total of five episodes for the series : Hash (1976), Toys (1978), Strip Joint (1979), Homeless (1981), Landmark: Part 3 (1982).
A citizen, Ivan Kessler, (played by Walter Janovitz) wanted to file a complaint against the federal government and the Department of Energy. Neither Captain Miller (Hal Linden), nor the Department of Energy representative Neil Spencer (James Cromwell) were able to recall who was the Secretary of Energy. At the time this episode aired, Charles W. Duncan, Jr. had been the Secretary of Energy for a little over two months. The Department of Energy had been created only a few years earlier in 1977, with James R. Schlesinger as the first Secretary of Energy.