Jack Albertson was so disgusted at the cheap, slipshod way this show was produced that he actually pulled out of it halfway into its first season, after seeing a particularly bad set of rushes. Reminded that he still had a contract, he said, "After what I just saw up there, no jury in the world would convict me." He received his release shortly thereafter.
The budget was so low that the company couldn't afford trailers for the cast, who had to change clothes in the bushes.
John Candy's first acting role
Oscar winner George Chakiris appeared twice, one in an episode entitled A Bullet for the General.
This show benefited from a then-new rule promulgated by the Federal Communications Commission that the three major networks cede a half hour between 7:00 and 11:00 p.m. to their local affiliates. The stated purpose of the rule was to provide an opportunity for the production of locally-produced content. In practice, however, local stations, especially in smaller markets, did not have the budget or production facilities to create such content, so that half-hour was often filled with re-runs of network shows or syndicated content like this. Because it was one of the few such syndicated shows at the time, "Locke" briefly became ubiquitous on local stations, sometimes running on different channels in the same market.
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