This episode leads straight into the spin-off Knots Landing (1979), which premiered a week later on December 27, 1979.
This episode marks the first appearance of Ted Shackelford as Gary Ewing. The character had previously been played by David Ackroyd in Reunion: Part 1 (1978) and Reunion: Part 2 (1978).
This was the first of a half dozen rather notable appearances by E.J. André as the outrageous, seasoned oilman, Eugene Bullock. E.J. had played an equally outrageous character, roughly fifteen years earlier on Larry Hagman's other series, I Dream of Jeannie.