The name of the show is a reference to "A Few Minutes With Steve Hartman" in "60 Minutes II".
According to Norm MacDonald, the first season was supposed to end on a cliffhanger in which Molly Hooper (Penelope Ann Miller) was brutally murdered, but the production was canceled after only 13 episodes (only 6 of which aired), so this episode was never filmed.
The series was set in Wisconsin, the same state where Paramount Television, the show's production company, had success in the 1970s with "Happy Days" and its spin-off "Laverne and Shirley" (the latter moved its setting to Burbank, California in 1980).