The Bernard Slade play "Same Time, Next Year", attended by Calvin and Beth near the beginning of this film, was also made into the film Same Time, Next Year (1978), starring Alan Alda in the lead male role. Donald Sutherland the male lead in Ordinary People (1980), portrays Hawkeye Pierce in the movie version of M*A*S*H (1970), which was later portrayed in the TV series of M*A*S*H (1972-1983) by Alan Alda.