In this episode, Doc tells Dianne at the bar that his father was an old teacher who looked like Ossie Davis. Doc's father was played, earlier in the series, by Ossie Davis.
A fire truck in this episode was donated to the FDNY by a fundraiser in Oklahoma City, and dedicated to 7 FDNY firefighters and 3 NYPD officers killed on 9-11, who had responded to the Oklahoma City terrorist bombing in 1995.