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Moonlighting
*The episode "It's a Wonderful Job" has a dream sequence where the Blue Moon detective agency becomes the Hart Detective Agency, with an employee named Lionel, played by Lionel Stander. Both are in-joke references to "Hart to Hart" (1979).
*Much of the show's popularity derived from the unconsummated sexual tension between the main characters. When the writers finally relented and allowed the characters to get together, the show's ratings plummeted.
*In the episode "When Girls Collide" 'Bruce Willis (I)' is seen standing in front of a film poster for Die Hard.
*In the episode when Maddie and David sleep together for the first time, the bed scene was filmed with the mattress propped vertically against a wall and the actors standing and leaning against it (notice Shepherd's hair falling the wrong direction). The reported reason is that Willis had a broken shoulder and Shepherd was pregnant. Also, parts of that scene were filmed with a body double for Willis because of his injury.
*The episode "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" opens with an introduction by Orson Welles. Welles died five days before the episode was broadcast, thus his cameo was likely the last time Welles ever appeared before a camera. Welles's name didn't appear in either the opening or end credits so you could in some way say that he was uncredited but "he received" a captioning in the beginning of the episode though, that read "This program is dedicated to the memory of Orson Welles 1915-1985".
*During episode 4.3, "Take a Left at the Altar", there is a chase between a car and a biplane, and part of the theme from North by Northwest can be heard. Eva Marie Saint, who co-starred in the film, guest-stars in the episode as Maddie's mother.
*Episodes of the show were delayed so many times, one promotional spot for the series featured an actor playing a network employee waiting for the next episode to be delivered.
*Glenn Gordon Caron was hired away from the series Remington Steele, another series about a pair of bickering detectives, to create and produce this show.
*Bruce Willis was the very last of about 3,000 actors to audition for the role of David Addison.
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