Donna Rice (in an uncredited role) played Frankel's wife in the opening. This episode aired five months before the scandal involving her affair with presidential hopeful Gary Hart broke, and was rerun on June 12, 1987, just over a month after it made headlines. This incident reportedly inspired Vote of Confidence (1988).
Gustave Reininger, who wrote this episode, and Chuck Adamson, who wrote four episodes over the first three seasons, were co-creators of Crime Story (1986); Michael Mann left the show after two seasons to produce that show.
Michael Mann's short-lived series Robbery Homicide Division (2002) had an episode entitled Had (2002) with a plot similar to this episode.
Luke Halpin does not receive a credit despite playing Frankel, around whose death the entire plot revolves.
In Stone's War (1986), Crockett tells Ira Stone he doesn't own a TV. By the time of this episode, he must have purchased one.