The last 5 episodes lasted originally an hour each. They were later re-edited into normal length in such a way that the credits no longer fit in with the original episodes.
Hiro threatens that his Minja warriors will swarm "like the Cubans on Miami." This episode was made just a couple of months after the Mariel Boatlift ended. Over a 6-month period in 1980, about 125,000 refugees traveled by boat from Mariel Harbor, Cuba to Florida, mostly Miami. It is said that many of these refugees were forcibly expelled from Cuba by Castro's order.