Steve and Nicole are searching for David Tate (Mike Farrell) near a lake. They are in the exact spot where Andy and Opie Taylor are walking to Myers Lake to go fishing in the opening of The Andy Griffith Show.
Mike Farrell, best remembered as Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt, M.D. on the long running series M*A*S*H (1972), would be reunited with his on screen love interest and fellow scientist, played by Joan Darling, on season five, episode five of "M*A*S*H," The Nurses (1976) where Darling served as the episode director.