Ken Howard and Blythe Danner had previously played a husband and wife, Thomas and Martha Jefferson, in the movie 1776 (1972). Series director Peter H. Hunt and episode writer Peter Stone were also associated with 1776; Hunt as director, Stone as screenwriter.
Nora Ephron's debut as a writer.
This short-lived TV series was based on the movie Adam's Rib (1949), starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.