On the airplane, Casey is reading the November 1982 issue of Esquire.
Danny says recruiting fashion designer Jacques for their assignment would be like asking Fernando Valenzuela to play semi-pro. Valenzuela was a left-handed baseball pitching star who played seventeen seasons spanning 1980-97, primarily for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Kirstie Alley's TV debut.
The reason given for using civilians was that their adversaries could not possibly put together dossiers on them and therefore they could remain anonymous.