In an unusual move for a one-year-and-out series, NBC allowed the last episode to resolve all the series' recurring plot points.
In 2023, author Thomas Mallon published a novel based on the life and death of "Hank" star Dick Kallman, detailing what it might have been like for him to try to live and work as a closeted gay actor in the 1950s and '60s. Mallon's novel, Up with the Sun, takes its title from the first line of the TV show's theme song (written by Johnny Mercer): "He's up with the sun, and he's got the college winging as he goes about another swinging day..."