Detective Sergeant Rick Hunter's badge number is 089. Fred Dryer wore the same number when he played for the Los Angeles Rams.
Detective Sergeant Rick Hunter's blue car is the same car seen on Hill Street Blues (1981), season six, episode eleven, "Two Easy Pieces". One of the clues to this is a spotlight mounting hole on the driver's side windshield pillar.
Detective Sergeant Rick Hunter's catchphrase through the series was "Works for me".
Detective Sergeant Rick Hunter's house at the beach was filmed on the Strand, in Hermosa Beach, California.
The reason behind Rick Hunter always getting a junk car was because the scripts almost always called for his car to be destroyed, it would get expensive to constantly wreck roadworthy cars. In reality, all police cars are held to a very high standard of maintenance and functionality.