Dale Robertson, who was a featured guest in back-to-back episodes The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel (1988) and Prediction: Murder (1989), is not credited in either show. The following explanation is given in the book "The Unofficial Murder She Wrote Casebook" by James Robert Parish: Dale Robertson...was one of the few MSW performers to question the show's policy of listing the guest stars in the credits in alphabetical order. According to then executive producer and co-creator Peter S. Fischer, "This arrangement didn't sit well with Dale Robertson, who allowed as how he would just as soon have no billing...This was okay with us. He did two shows, we didn't break our top fee and he didn't get billing. That was his choice and I never knew why."
Opening credits prologue: UNIVERSAL PICTURES present UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL: Downed Fliers Rescued After 72 Hour Ordeal (superimposed on archive footage)