Howard Duff (Senator Henry Harrison O'Dell) also played Paul Galveston in Knots Landing (1979) from 1984 to 1985 and again in 1990.
This episode aired on April 1, 1988, one day before the tenth anniversary of the broadcast of the series' first episode Digger's Daughter (1978).
Both of Miss Ellie Southworth Ewing Farlow's husbands were accused of murder.