This episode is the only episode of the entire 6-season run of "The Rockford Files" which is not listed on Netflix. No reason for its omission is given anywhere.
The voice heard announcing flight arrival & departure information at LAX (the 2nd to last scene of the episode), is Arlene Golonka - who's a guest star in this episode as 'Jean.'
Before Jim Garner broke into show business he worked with his real father laying carpet. In this show Jack and Jim are in the trailer about to leave, Jack looks down at the carpet on the floor and says "Jimbo, you were in the carpet business, the stuff you got here is 3 notches above a drop cloth!"
The death of the girl on the yacht, owned by a newspaper publishing family, alludes to a case in the 1920s. Hollywood executive Thomas H. Ince died mysteriously on newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst's yacht.
Every time a character says they tried to read Jack Skowran's "Free Fall to Ecstasy", they mention they couldn't get past chapter 4.