Ted's 1972 salary of $31,000 is approximately $196,465 in 2021 dollars.
The movie Mary is watching on television is Red Dust (1932), with Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, both of whom can be heard.
Lurene Tuttle and Gavin MacLeod previously appeared together as murder suspects in "The Case of the Grinning Gorilla" on "Perry Mason" in 1965.
It is mentioned that Ted makes $31,000 a year.