The magazine Dr. Early is reading is the December 1972 issue of Penthouse with Penthouse Pet Lynn Carey on the cover. She is the daughter of longtime Days Of Our Lives icon Macdonald Carey.
In the last scene when the rest of the cast leaves Joe in his hospital bed he pulls out an adult magazine from under the sheets.
Dick Butkus, who played the former football player who had broken his ankle, is the first athletic star to appear on this program. Others have included Larry Csonka, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Mark Spitz.