Margaret Colin, guest stars as Frank's occasional girlfriend. She played a similar role with Tom Selleck in 1988's Legend of the Lost Art (1988), an episode of Magnum P.I.
Margaret Colin, guest star in this episode, also appeared in Three Men and a Baby (1987) which also stars Tom Selleck.
Commissioner Frank refers to Doris Kearns Goodwin. Goodwin is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist and political commentator. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995.
Frank Reagan had a girlfriend in season one named Kelly Davison who was also a journalist.
Margaret Colin and Will Estes Star in The Familiar Stranger together in 2001.