The blue sports car Janet Carlisle drives at the beginning is a Ferrari Dino 246.
Debut of the flashier, faster, opening theme.
Kojak threatens Arnie Brace: "If you come near her again, I'm gonna splatter your brain.. all over Manhattan."
The Rolling Stones started recording "Shattered", which has the lyric "My brain's been battered, splattered all over Manhattan", for their Album "Some Girls" October 10, 1977, eight days after this aired.