In the scene in the chapel, Dr. Aushlander says that Father McCabe founded St. Eligius in 1932 and Dr. Westphall says that he never met McCabe. In Time Heals: Part 1 (1986) and Time Heals: Part 2 (1986), both statements would be retconned as that two-part story shows that McCabe founded the hospital in 1935 and had known Donald Westphall since he was a child.
The police officer character is named Pete Malloy. This is the same name of one of the two lead characters in the series Adam 12. In Adam 12 he was played by Martin Milner