MISTAKES/GOOFS

TRIVIA

• The final scene featured one of the most unexpected plot twists in television history. The twist has since been copied at least one other MTM series, "Newhart" (1982).
• The final telecast was the highest-rated episode in the series' history, finishing #2 for the week in the Nielsen ratings.
• LOGO GIMMICK: In the end credits of the final show, the MTM kitty is shown in a hospital bed having the plug pulled on itself. The MTM kitty in actuality had died the same the series ended.
• Full of inside jokes, including a doctor named Brandon Falsey, a reference to Brand and Falsey, the creators of the show. There was a chase of a "one armed man" a reference to the Fugitive. During the chase, someone yells, "Move the gurney, Hal," a reference to Hal Gurnee, Dave Letterman's director. ...