Sharon Cintron, who plays a policewoman sitting next to Baretta during a station headquarters briefing, was the Playboy Playmate of the Month for May 1963.
Carl Gottlieb, the same year he played a small role on this episode, had written/adapted the screenplay for a movie that came out the same year, which was the biggest Summer Blockbuster of all time, JAWS.
Anitra Ford, as Michael Parks's wife, explains to Baretta that they got a new kind of oven that "Cooks with sound waves," a new concept at the time called a Microwave Oven.