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2	* DirectedByCastMember: Dinah Manoff directed seven episodes.
3	* HeAlsoDid:
4	** Richard Mulligan (Harry Weston) is also best known for playing Burt Campbell on ''Series/{{Soap}}''.
5	** Creator/DinahManoff (Carol Weston) also co-starred on ''Soap'' as Elaine Lefkowitz and is also best known for playing Marty Maraschino in ''Film/{{Grease}}''.
6	** Marsha Warfield (Dr. Maxine Douglas) is also best known for playing Roz Russell on ''Series/NightCourt''. She joined the cast of this show right on the back of that show's cancellation, in fact.
7	** At the time he was cast, David Leisure (Charley Dietz) had risen to fame for playing [[HonestJohnsDealership Joe Isuzu]] in a series of late 1980s Isuzu commercials.
8	** In addition to her work on ''The Golden Girls'', ''Empty Nest'', and ''Nurses'', creator and executive producer Susan Harris is known as creator and executive producer of ''Soap'' and ''Series/{{Benson}}''.
9	** James Widdoes directed an episode. Widdoes is best known for playing Stan Pembroke on ''Series/CharlesInCharge'' and Robert Hoover in ''Film/AnimalHouse''.
10	* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: In addition to Mulligan & Manoff, several of their old ''Series/{{Soap}}'' co-stars guest starred on the show including Donnelly Rhodes, Jennifer Salt, Richard Libertini, Randee Heller, & Jim Johnson.
11	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Surprisingly considering the show's popularity, longevity, and relative recency, it has never received an official DVD release, and is not available on any streaming service. It's also ''much'' harder to find in syndication than parent series ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''; in the new millennium, it aired only briefly on Creator/HallmarkChannel in 2011 (pairing the show once again with ''The Golden Girls'', which was and remains a Hallmark Channel mainstay), and then for a slightly longer stretch on the broadcast digital subchannel Creator/{{Laff}} for three years (2015-18); virtually all available bootlegs of the series appear to be from this later run.
12	* RealitySubtext: Barbara moving to Arizona is because her portrayer, Kristy [=McNichol=] was diagnosed with UsefulNotes/BipolarDisorder and needed time off for treatment.
13	* RealLifeRelative: A subplot of an episode had a neighbor accusing the family dog Dreyfuss of impregnating his dog, and as proof, presenting the Westons with three puppies that were indeed clearly his, as they looked like miniature versions of him. They were in fact Bear's (the dog who played Dreyfus) puppies.
14	* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: Creator/KristyMcNichol and Creator/DinahManoff resemble each other strongly enough that -- depending on their costumes and hairstyles -- it can be hard to tell which of them is which. A perfectly reasonable expectation of two actual sisters, but quite surprising in two unrelated people.
15	* WrittenByCastMember: Dinah Manoff also wrote two episodes.

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