During the week this episode aired, Jan Hammer's "Miami Vice Theme" would hit the #1 spot on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. No instrumental TV theme has done so since.
Ivory Jones claims to have gotten his name from smuggling ivory from Nigeria, Africa. According to news reports, Nigeria's business and financial capital and largest city, Lagos, is still to this very day Africa's largest market for illegal ivory.
Radio Marti (whose transmissions interfered with Switek's monitoring of Tubbs' wire when meeting with Ivory Jones) began transmitting on May 20, 1985, and still exists today (a TV version began in 1990).