The plot of this episode is loosely based on the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon starring Al Pacino.
He also co-starred in the short lived series Chopper One for NBC, and played a small part in Dog Day Afternoon.
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In Sidney Lumet’s Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon characters “behave like windscreen wipers” (p208).
Lumet directed this film during a span when his Serpico, Murder on the Orient Express, Dog Day Afternoon and Network were nominated for a combined 24 Academy Awards.