As Frank and Margaret talk while scrubbing for surgery, Frank implies that for a time at the beginning of their affair, he was keeping his marriage a secret from her.
Soon Tek Oh plays a South Korean surgeon in Love and Marriage Season 3 Episode 20.
Hawkeye, when commenting on Frank and Margaret's argument refers to "The Bickerson's". This was a sketch within the Drene Time radio show with Danny Thomas. The couple John and Blanche Bickerson, played primarily by Don Ameche and Frances Langford, argued incessantly, particularly in the middle of the night when Blanche would awaken John and his raucous snoring.
This episode is written by Bill Idelson, best known on screen for playing Sally Rogers' boyfriend Herman Glimscher on "The Dick Van Dyke Show."
Frank mentions paying for med school by selling cemetery plots door to door.