Each episode is named after a song. 'It's a Long Way Back' is the title of a song by the Ramones.
When Dr Karav asks Doris Roberts' character for $100,000 for his African children surgery project, she says, "take it somewhere else, Sally Struthers." Doris Roberts plays a friend to Jean Stapleton's character, Edith, on one episode in All In the Family, who plays Sally Struthers mom on the series.