The title is based on the song "A Lot of Living to Do" from the movie Bye Bye Birdie (1963). The original Broadway production opened at the Martin Beck Theater on April 14, 1960, ran for 607 performances and won the 1961 Tony Award for the Best Musical.
The Lane house is revealed to have been built in 1730. In reality, no surviving houses in the Brooklyn borough predate the 1790s.
Judith Lowry's roles in this series (she has a total of two) reflect in a way the course her acting career took. Her first appearance, in Patty, the People's Voice (1964), is nothing more than a bit part. This, her second appearance, is much more substantial and engaging. From the time in 1952 that she started appearing in movies and on TV, her roles were largely inconsequential until, that is, she garnered much more recognition and, consequently, more substantial roles, ultimately appearing in the recurring role as the feisty Mother Dexter in the TV sitcom Phyllis (1975).
This is the second and final appearance Judith Lowry makes in the series. Each time she plays a different character, but in a similar role as an elderly woman. She also appears in minor roles in two movies Patty Duke stars in: The Miracle Worker (1962) and Valley of the Dolls (1967).
Martin quotes Patrick Henry, attributing to him something often attributed to John Hancock, i.e. the pronouncement that his signature on the Declaration of Independence will be large enough that King George III will not need his reading glasses to see it. Since the official Declaration of Independence was signed on 2 August 1776 with little or no fanfare to note the occasion virtually no record of the quotation exists. Moreover, although Patrick Henry was not one of the signatories to the original Declaration of Independence, Martin's quotation tends to imply that Martin thinks Mr. Henry was.