This episode involves a foot chase from phone booth to phone booth and a kidnapped girl being threatened to be killed if money is not delivered in time. Which is some of the same plot elements that was also used in the film Dirty Harry. And the Mel Gibson film where he yells "Gimme back my son" in the trailer. And later spoof by The Nanny when Max yells "Give me back my nanny!" and he has to run too and he even dives in a pool.
David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser will go on to direct Edward James Olmos in episodes of Miami Vice.
Very young actors James Hong (Su Long) and Edward James Olmos (Julio Gutierez) work in this episode but they do not act in any scene together. 7 years later they both will work in "Blade Runner" (1982) and they will not share any screen time together again in this movie.
The bar robber dressed as an old lady is an uncredited Daniel J. Travanti.
Allan Miller appears as another character in season four's Starsky and Hutch: Cover Girl (1978) and
season three's Starsky and Hutch: A Body Worth Guarding (1978).