The $30,000 salary suggested that Columbo ask for to work in Brimmer's firm would equate to over $200,000 in 2022.
The first regular Columbo episode filmed (after two pilot movies), though it was the second episode aired.
Richard Levinson and William Link won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for this episode. It also won one for Film Editing.
First appearance of Columbo's 1959 Peugeot 403 Cabriolet.
An uncredited Ken Sansom plays the DMV employee who gives Columbo an unintentional clue about glasses. He also appeared in A Stitch in Crime (1973). He's best known for voicing Rabbit in Winnie the Pooh cartoons, and playing the Malibu guard who does celebrity voices for Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye (1973).