20 years after this show was broadcast (and a year after Jack Lord's death from Alzheimer's disease), Sharon Farrell (Lori) told an interviewer that Lord kept forgetting his own lines and rewriting the lines of guest star Jayne Meadows (playing an astrological consultant who gives advice to an aspiring boxer). Farrell suggested that Lord may have already had early-onset Alzheimer's and was in a combative phase where he raged at everybody.
The title refers to the constellation of the ram that is in the zodiac which represents the ring of constellations that lines the ecliptic, which is the apparent path of the Sun across the sky over the course of the year. The ram is called Aries and is the first astrological sign in the Zodiac, named after the golden ram that rescued Phrixos, taking him to the land of Colchis.