Richard Belzer plays Det. Frank Giordano. This film was filmed in the time between Seasons 2 and 3 of Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), in which Belzer played Detective John Munch, whose supervisor was Lt. Al Giordello. The name Giordano was a play on this character's name.
Even though it does not open with Mark Snow's[/b theme music for the series, Snow's theme can be heard briefly inside the TV movie.
At the end, Jonathan & Jennifer sing/dance to "You Were Meant for Me". That song was written by Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed in 1929. Frank Morgan sang the song in "Hullabaloo" from 1940. Gene Kelly sang it in "Singin' in the Rain" from 1952.