Displaced, and also lead to the cancellation of, the popular family sitcom Just the Ten of Us, which had been a TGIF staple since 1988. ABC had decided they wanted a more adult show as a lead in for their 10 PM Friday night news program 20/20 and felt Going Places would attract more adult viewers. Nevertheless the show was a critical and ratings failure, while Just the Ten of Us's reruns performed excellently on the USA network. This lead ABC to publicly comment, in the spring of 1991, that it had been a mistake to cancel Just the Ten of Us.
After the show was cancelled, Staci Keenan would continue to act in the TGIF lineup. She would be become a main cast member on Step By Step, which premiered the following fall. Step By Step lasted seven seasons and she appeared in every episode.
Alan Ruck credited this show with helping his post-"Ferris Bueller's Day Off" career. Ruck had been cast in a pilot called "Morton's by the Bay", which didn't make it past the pilot stage. With a young family to support and no other marketable job skills, Ruck had to go to an employment agency that had him working at a Sears warehouse for minimum wage. Coworkers would tell Ruck that he reminded them of Cameron Frye and Ruck, not wanting to avoid the humiliation of being the actor in that movie to now working in a warehouse, denied it was him and kept a low profile. Ruck was eventually cast in this series as the producers were fans of his work and Ruck was able to buy a house and have a steady income to support his family.