Another episode where Burt Reynolds' character captains the boat instead of steering it. Usually, Darren McGavin would be off to New Orleans, leaving Reynolds to take over; in this case McGaven gets kidnapped, so unlike those episodes he does appear sporadically. But Reynolds takes the leading role.
There's a rapid-fire gun (liken to a Gatling Gun) shown to Burt Reynolds' character to spook him; later, in the movie Sam Whiskey, Burt Reynolds uses one.