By 1770, when the series starts, John Adams and Abigail, his wife, had been married for 5 years. They were 35 years old and 25 years old respectively.
The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special.
This series marked the second time that Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney played an on-screen husband and wife. They appeared a year previously as a married couple in The Nanny Diaries.