When Kelly, as a passenger, gets out of Sabrina's orange Pinto, the chrome trim around the passenger window is "blacked-out," presumably to eliminate blinding glare right into the camera.
The sound effects for the "UFO" are the same ones used for the background noise of the USS Enterprise bridge on Star Trek (1966)
Dennis Cole (James Britten) previously appeared as a different character in season one's Dancing in the Dark (1977) and later in season three's Terror on Skis (1979).