Sister Jude (Jessica Lange) is watching The Flying Nun (1967), a late 60's comedy about a nun who can fly.
Lana says to Kit "what do you think of Tuesday Weld as me." Tuesday Weld, an actress in the 60s, was best friends with Jessica Lange and actually dated Mikhail Baryshnikov after he and Lange broke up in 1982.
The first episode rated under eight
Frances Conroy (The Angel Of Death) and James Cromwell (Dr. Arthur Arden) also co-starred together in Six Feet Under (2001) on HBO.