Howard Honig, portraying Mr. Leggit, also appears as a passenger in Airplane and Airplane II: The Sequel. Both films are parodies dealing with flight disasters.
The stylized "CA" airline logo on the plane featured in the episode "747" turns up much later in the episode "Prometheus", this time as the logo for a brand of condensed soup in the blind woman's cupboard.
'Bill Bixby' is reunited with his former co-star, Brandon Cruz, who stared as his son in The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969).
Jack Colvin does not appear in this episode.