This is the first episode from which Donna Mills (Abby Sumner) has been absent since joining the regular cast. Her absence from this episode ended a streak of 218 consecutive episodes from Hitchhike: Part 1 (1980) to Mrs. Peacock in the Library with the Lead Pipe (1989). The only actors to appear in more consecutive episodes are Michele Lee (Karen MacKenzie) at all 344 and Kevin Dobson (Mack MacKenzie) at 281. It is also the only episode from which Mills was absent prior to her departure in Down Came the Rain and Washed the Spider Out: Part 1 (1989).