Would there ever something romantic happen between Sam and Michaels mother, Madeline (Sharon Gless)?
It crossed my mind when Sam moved in with her. MN: Obviously it’s come up a million times. People talk about it. But once your best friend dates your Mom that’s all you can talk about but that said one of the fun relationships to mine is that relationship between Sam and Madeline, which is kind of a funny relationship. There’s not a huge road map for “I’m friends with my best friend’s mom.” To give you a sense of that in a future episode that would air in winter we have a runner where Sam is paying attention to a guy that Madeline is dating just to make sure that he’s good enough for her so there he’s taking a bit of a fatherly interest in what’s going on with her. It’s a fun and sort of complicated relationship but not a romantic one. JH: One of the things you’ve set up for the show is how you can bring in past foes of Michael’s as well as new bad guys. How did that fall into the show’s design? MN: One silly reason for it is just that we’re in Miami. Also, there’s a certain amount of
