Viola Davis met her husband, Julius Tennon, filming this show.
Blair Underwood and Hill Harper played father and son in the 1998 miniseries "Mama Flora's Family".
Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer both got their breakout roles in the 2011 film "The Help".
The show had a serial rapist storyline where several of the main female characters were attacked. When Gabrielle Union saw how the writers were running out of characters to get raped she assumed her own character would be soon, so she asked them not to have her go through that because she's a real life survivor and didn't want to play those type of scenes. The writers agreed and the rapist was caught in the following episode.