Stockard Channing, an accomplished stage actress who had entered the national consciousness with her role as Betty Rizzo in Grease a year prior, was the lead.

Gerrit Graham, Mimi Kennedy, Lou Crisculo and Sydney Goldsmith co-starred with her on the series.

Ostensibly, the two series were set in different fictional universes with different character names but were largely identical in premise, with an identical home set, with Channing speaking in interviews as if the two shows were two seasons of the same series.

[1] This series revolves around health spa assistant manager Susan Hughes, whose marriage is falling apart.

The pilot for Just Friends was videotaped before a live studio audience at CBS Television City in Hollywood in November 1978.