Character actor Robert Picardo guest starred as the doctor in this episode of the Susan Harris created sitcom The Golden Girls entitled "The Operation" which aired on NBC on Saturday night February 8, 1986. On the exact same night Picardo guest starred as a film director on another Susan Harris created sitcom, Benson, in the episode entitled Reel Murder, Part 1 which aired on ABC.
Guest star Robert Picardo, who plays Dorothy's doctor, later appeared in The Amati Girls (2000), in which he again played the doctor to a woman with an Italian-American mother. His best known role is as the unnamed holographic doctor on the series Star Trek: Voyager (1995).