When Starsky and Hutchinson are told to come into the station for an emergency meeting, Starsky makes like the radio doesn't and ignores Captain Dobey's request, in the background on the movie marquee has now playing "Blacula" it's ironic because this is the pilot episode and Bernie Hamilton played Captain Dobey in the regular series, Richard Ward played the part of Captain Dobey, but Bernie Hamilton was in Scream Blacula Scream aka Blacula II 1973 two years before he started doing this series.They stopped doing cop show like this because they were a bit unrealistic, not because the studio were afraid the actors would get hurt, the actors did some stunts but they still had stunt men, you didn't see cops running through neighborhoods like that even in the 70's, and to the poster that stated they stopped doing this kind of action cop show, they obviously haven't seen an episode of 24, Kiefer Sutherland, runs, chases, crashes, and blows up things all the time, two story lines have even involved the detonation of a nuclear device.