Wings

Joe Montgomery Hackett

Brian Michael Hackett

Helen Chapel

Roy Biggins

Fay Evelyn Schlob Dumbly DeVay Cochran

Antonio Scarpacci

Lowell Mather

Casey Chapel Davenport

Tony Shalhoub's father and mother's names are Joe and Helen, matching the two lead characters in "Wings". Additionally, his father's brother's name is Brian, the same as the show's character Joe. Coming from a NY theatre background and unfamiliar with the then year old program, Shalhoub was unaware of this until he saw his audition script.

The character of Lowell was written for Thomas Hayden Church.

In one episode, Helen is watching home movies of one of her childhood birthday parties. Young Brian is seen wearing a T-Shirt saying "STAR TREK LIVES". Steven Weber would later guest star on an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), and Tim Daly's father James Daly guest starred on the original Star Trek (1966) series. The "Star Trek" series, like "Wings", were all produced by Paramount Television (the original series began as a Desilu production).

In the last episode, when the brothers open the locker and take the suitcase full of money that their father left for them, it is the same locker that Lowell opens in the first episode to get the first suitcase their father left. Lowell only takes out the one suitcase.

Early on in the series, Helen (Crystal Bernard) makes a reference to her sister "Loraine". Years later Amy Yasbeck joins the series playing Helen's only sister "Casey".

Sandpiper only has one airplane, and Joe always reads its call number as "Nevada-One-Two-One-Papa-Papa" or N121PP. However, there are a few episodes where the Sandpiper plane's tail shows N121PB and several more (mostly exterior shots) where it shows N160PB.

Roy Biggins: Roy Biggins doesn't pay for sex. Roy Biggins Inc. pays for sex.

Joe Hackett: One minute we were smackin' each other with meat, then it got weird.

Lewis Blanchard: Ya know, I have a video camera that shoots in the dark. Helen: Yeah, I got a gun that does the same thing.