Autism is an important element of Bruce Paltrow's next series, St. Elsewhere, and he uses the disease here first.
Jason Green, who played the autistic Tom Hendricks, now goes by the name Ikahn El and is a successful real estate broker in New York.
Ken Howard and Barbara Babcock later starred together in A Vow to Cherish (1999), a film produced by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association about a husband who must cope with his wife suffering from Alzheimers.