Trivia for
"Baa Baa Black Sheep" (1976)

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• The real Greg 'Pappy' Boyington appeared in the second half of the two-part episode "The Deadliest Enemy of All" in the cameo role of Gen. Harrison Kenlay. He also appeared at the end of the first season's final episode "The Fastest Gun" as an officer who pins a medal on Boyington in newsreel footage.
  
  
• As, at the time, there were no genuine A6M "Zero" fighters in flyable condition (this has been rectified only in recent years), all of the Japanese Zeroes depicted were actually American AT-6 "Texan" trainer aircraft that were specially modified to resemble a Zero.
  
  
• When nurses were added to the regular cast, they were referred to in the opening credits as "Pappy Lambs" as a takeoff on the show that was beating this one in the ratings at the time, "Charlie's Angels" (1976).
  
  

• Red West was filming a scene on this series when he was told his former boss, Elvis Presley had died. West was given the rest of the day off.
  
  
• Most of the aerial footage was shot off the Southern California coast. The island seen during the opening and closing credits is Santa Barbara Island.
  
  
• Although many viewers thought the Japanese bomber pilot "Washing Machine Charlie" was fictitious, he did in fact exist, and is mentioned in William Manchester's memoir of the Pacific War, "Goodbye Darkness".
  
  
• The Zeroes used in the show were built for the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970).
  
  

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