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• The episode "Insured by Smith and Wesson" features Joe Penny as a former actor on a fictional TV series of that name. The clips shown from that fictional series are actually from Penny's old show "Riptide" (1984).
  
  
• The beginning credits feature actual footage of controversial Los Angeles events: The Watts riots, a shot of Robert Kennedy moments before he was assassinated at the L.A. Ambassador Hotel, and footage of the O.J. Simpson Bronco "slow chase".
  
  
• Some items on Fearless's list of things to do before dying are: - Learn to speak a foreign language - See a launch of the Space Shuttle - Send a message in a bottle (he had this crossed out as "done") - Ride a camel into the desert - Plant a tree (done) - Sleep with a hooker (done during pilot episode) - Go deep sea fishing and eat oysters - Sit on a jury (done) - Shower in a waterfall - Drive the Autobahn - Make love on a kitchen table - Pick up a bad habit (done - smoking) - Quit that bad habit (done) - See the northern (lights?)
  
  
• The episode "Sinaloa Cowboys" is based on the Bruce Springsteen song of the same name.
  
  
• After NBC renewed the show for a second season, they cut the show's episode order from 22 to 18 episodes and only aired 6 of the second season.
  
  

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