The final episode where Phylicia Rashad was credited as Phylicia Ayers-Allen as she married Ahmad Rashad on December 14, 1985.
An excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech is featured at the end of the episode originally aired four days before the first observance of the U.S federal Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. The speech paved the way for The Cosby Show and other African American television shows. It was also Rudy's choice of viewing to remind the family what the real issues were.