Paul Brown won a 1991 Edgar Award for Best Episode in a TV Series. The Edgar Allan Poe Awards honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year.
The title of the episode "Good Night, Dear Heart" is from a poem by Mark Twain about the death of his daughter, as read and stated in the episode.
This episode features two future Star Trek regulars. Scott Bakula would later play Captain Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001), while Robert Duncan McNeill went on to play Lt. Tom Paris in Star Trek: Voyager (1995).
The character Stephanie Heywood features in issue nine of the Quantum Leap comic book, cover date February 1993. Sam leaps into her about a week before the Stonewall riots, the flashpoint of the modern gay rights movement.
Hilla "Hilly" Doehner was born on November 9, 1938 and was murdered on her 19th birthday, November 9, 1957.