In one scene, Melinda tells Delia she'll "give her a month off after this." This episode was the last episode before the mid-season hiatus, giving Delia nearly three months off.
Jean Louisa Kelly played the lovely high school girl who sang so beautifully in Mr. Holland's Opus, with whom Richard Dreyfuss' character was infatuated and for whom he wrote a piece of music -- then encouraged her to go to New York and have a singing career rather than run away with him.