The opening credits began with a television set turning on to display nothing but static. This has since become the generic logo for all HBO Original Series.
John Landis asked Universal Studios if he could make a show out of all the old television programs that Universal had in its library, a lot of which were anthology shows. He then asked David Crane and Marta Kauffman to come up with a premise. This was the result.
One of HBO's first original series.
In 2014, GQ magazine listed the pre-JAG Catherine Bell exposing her breasts (season 5, episode 9) as the 4th most underrated nude moment in TV history.