Up until this episode, the character of Steve Elliott (Mike Minor) had been amorously linked with eldest sister Billie Jo (Meredith MacRae), but when Minor and Linda Henning struck up a real-life romance, the writers took advantage of the publicity and shifted Elliott's interest to Henning's character, Betty Jo. In this episode, as Elliott begins courting her sister, Billie Jo makes a point of staying that "Steve and I are just friends," though this had hardly been the case. Minor and Henning eventually married and divorced.