* MemeticMutation: "Chief?" "[=McCloud=]!" (as codified by ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'')
* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/JaclynSmith turns up in "Showdown at the End of the World" and "The Man with the Golden Hat".
* SpiritualAdaptation: The show's premise bears more than a passing resemblance to that of the 1968 Creator/ClintEastwood film ''Coogan's Bluff'' (and indeed the film's primary screenwriter, Herman Miller, receives a "Created By" credit).
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