After an operation goes less than planned, Chief Peter Clifford asks Captain Dettmer (Mark Richman) whose idea the operation was. Dettmer answers McCloud, Clifford says it has happened to him too and welcome to the club. This was an inside joke as Mark Richman had already been in that club, having had the role of Peter Clifford in the McCloud pilot.
The flag in the fake apartment is the flag for the Czechoslovakia, then a communist country behind the Iron Curtain.
The instrumental version of "The Bitch Is Back" was used in a number of Universal productions, including several episodes on McCloud. The song was published by MCA, which was part of the Universal corporate family.
While her character says she had never been on a horse and is very nervous the first time she is in the saddle, Julie Sommars actually taught horseback riding after graduating high school.