First of all, when you’re creating a show, you want to do something you love. I do a lot of military things, I love it. I’m a pilot – or, I was – so that just appealed to me. I lived out there during that time, I knew a lot of those people, and it was just a natural thing for me to write. So I started to write something else, and then I went, “Well, I think I want to write this.” What could be more difficult than leaping into a test pilot?
— Don Bellisario on the first episode where Sam Beckett leaps into a test pilot, a la The Right Stuff
