Final performance of veteran character actor Dub Taylor. He has over 260 acting credits listed in IMDb for both TV and movie roles. A very familiar face from Western TV and movie roles. He was a member of the 1937 Alabama football team that played in the Rose Bowl.
This episode appears to be based on the following events:
- The Tappan Savings and Loan Scandal committed by Willard Tappan appears to based on the Lincoln Savings and Loan Scandal involving its chairman Charles Keating, who used the tactic of convincing customers to invest in unsecured securities.
- Also based on an insider trading scandal involving Ivan Boesky. Boesky was a former American stock trader who became infamous for his prominent role in an insider trading scandal that occurred in the United States during the mid-1980s. He was charged and pled guilty to insider trading, was fined a record $100 million, and later became an informant.
Edie Falco (Sally Bell) and Dan Grimaldi (Carl Pirelli) both appear in this episode. Although they didn't share screen time, these actors would later work together on The Sopranos (1999).
Merwin Goldsmith plays Judge Ian Feist in this and ten other episodes. He previously played the part of Trial Judge Gollub in Episode 1.17, Mushrooms (1991).