During her three season run on "Mission Impossible", Barbara Bain acted with Bradford Dillman during his guest star role in the season two show "Recovery".
J Michael Straczynski created and wrote Babylon 5 and Andrea Thompson was also a main character in Babylon 5.
A Lieutenant Girard from another popular television series ("The Fugitive" from the early 1960's) was also after a murderer; however, that Lieutenant (who was chasing wrongfully convicted Richard Kimble) was spelled Gerard.