Duplicate Sets Used

The series starred Richard Crenna and Patty Duke Astin as a modern, dual career couple whose personal lives were largely impacted by their professions. Susan Harris, her husband Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas executive produced the series, under the group's Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions company.

The Quinn family's kitchen set on It Takes Two was preserved by the producers after the series' cancellation, and was brought back unchanged, in 1985, as the kitchen set for their then-new NBC sitcom The Golden Girls. This kitchen would remain on The Golden Girls for its entire seven-year run, with only a minor cosmetic change occurring toward the end of its first season (the wallpaper was changed from the yellow-with-white polka dot pattern held over from It Takes Two, in favor of a more Floridian palm leaf print on beige backing; shelves were built into to the wall adjacent to the living room doorway, and decorative plates and baking molds were displayed to give a feminine touch ). The exterior backdrop seen through the kitchen window was also changed from the view of neighboring Chicago high-rise buildings in It Takes Two to that of palm trees and bushes for the Miami suburb residence of The Golden Girls.