Loretta Swit met her husband, Dennis Holahan while filming this episode, where their characters are romantically involved. Interestingly, his last name, Holahan, is phonetically very similar to her character's last name, Houlihan.
Hawkeye mentions that Joseph Stalin has recently died. Stalin died on March 5, 1953.
Guest star David Packer later appeared in Almost Heroes (1998), as another character who, through misfortune, loses a leg.
Both Harry Morgan's final directorial credit on M*A*S*H and in his career.
The title is from the song "You And The Night And The Music" by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz.