Prominent pink: a woman holds a pink sweater dress against her body, that another woman gifts her in a closet. Pink was the running theme color for the series, and was often distinctly featured in an episode.
Judith Chapman and Rebecca Herbst, who share the role of Gail, both appeared in Days of Our Lives and in GeneralHospital.
Michael Landon's own son made a tell-all expose film about the troubles in the home but it was released in 1999 well after the star had passed away.
Clearly inspired by the Joan Crawford/Mommie Dearest scandal, when the Hollywood star's daughter wrote a notorious autobiography, alledging all manner of spectacular mistreatment and emotional abuse by her adoptive mother.