The title is from the novel 'The Call of the Wild' by Jack London.
This marks the first episode for series regular Cathy Podewell (Cally Harper Ewing) who remained with the show for the rest of this twelfth season through the fourteenth and final season of the primetime soap opera. Also, Cathy Podewell, Howard Keel, Sheree J. Wilson, and Sherman Howard all four appeared on an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger from the third season titled "Blue Movies".