Trivia

In his 1989 autobiography "It Would Be So Nice If You Weren't Here...", Charles Grodin reveals he was initially offered a contract for two years. Not being very interested in acting in a soap opera, he gave the producers a counter offer saying, he would do it for six months, which to his surprise they immediately accepted. During the production he felt very unhappy and gained a lot of weight. However, he did hit it off with Ted Knight, so much so that whenever they had to share a scene, they couldn't stop themselves from bursting out with laughter. This made it very difficult to finish a scene between the two of them and Grodin began to hope he wouldn't have any scenes with Ted Knight whenever a he got a new script.

In the show's final episode, Walter Reynolds has learned that he is going blind, and has barricaded himself in his home with a shotgun, contemplating suicide. No resolve for this situation was ever presented.

This show is considered to be a sister show to General Hospital with the fictional suburb of Queen's Point conceptualized by the writers as being a suburb of General Hospital's Port Charles, New York. As of 2013 on General Hospital Dr Patrick Drake and Elizabeth Webber live in Queen's Point.

The Young Marrieds was loosely based on the novel by the same name by Judith Heiman. The storyline of Ann and Walter Reynolds were based on the main characters in her novel Peggy and Ken Mosley. Paul Steven (Ann's lover) was based on the character David.

Originally Floy Dean as Liz Forsythe Stevens and Scott Graham as Matt Crane Stevens were the two main original characters. In early 1965 Scott Graham was replaced by Charles Grodin. By the summer of 1965 both characters had left town.