In an example of life imitating television, this episode has a fake news report talking about the divorce of Prince Charles and Lady Diana in July of 1984. In reality, they did get divorced in August, 1996.
First episode where as String and Dom fly Airwolf in their regular clothing.
It is stated that Stringfellow and Saint John Hawke needed a special waiver and permission from their commanding officer, Colonel Vidor, in order to serve in the same unit in Vietnam. This is because of a genuine military regulation dating from the Second World War forbidding family members serving in the same unit in case it affects their tactical judgement and sparing their family the possibility that they could both be killed in the same battle. In Hawke and Saint John's case an exception may have been made as they were the only members of their family left.
When Stringfellow Hawke demands to know the real day and year, the nurse tells him that it is March 3, 1984. This was, in fact, the original air date of this episode.
The script for this episode, by writer Christopher Crowe, was a re-write of a script used in the TV series, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977). In the episode Sole Survivor (1978), Joe Hardy (Shaun Cassidy) wakes up in a Hong Kong hospital after a car accident. He is told by a man posing as a government agent that he has been in a coma for a year, and that his brother Frank and father Fenton Hardy are both dead. But it turns out to be a ruse by foreign agents to trick Joe Hardy into revealing the location of a defector that the Hardys were trying to help escape to freedom.