When I think of this episode, I always keep remembering how McGarrett rattles off the number of years someone is facing three times. Oddly with Birney I thought he was being too easy on him saying "eight to ten in Portsmouth!" (The Navy closed their Portsmouth, NH prison several years after this episode aired). I would have given him 20 years for the way he manipulated Salton into becoming hooked.

Both Birney and David Doyle would be regulars in the CBS sitcom "Bridget Loves Bernie" several months later with Doyle playing Jewish Birney's Catholic father-in-law.