The Porsche crash off the parking garage was recycled from The Lipstick Killer (1984) and would be used again in Nightmare (1986).
After their horse riding date, Sandy mentions Hooker's ex-wife. Belinda Montgomery played Det. Crockett's ex-wife on Miami Vice (1984). Like William Shatner, she is Canadian.
First on-screen kiss between James Darren and Heather Locklear. As was often the case with William Shatner's character and the women he dated, Darren is much older than Locklear, in this case about 25 years. The second kiss took place in Season 5 in Partners in Death (1986).