History Trivia / DawsonsCreek

*** In 2022 and 2023, respectively, it was revealed that JoshuaJackson and KatieHolmes protested Dawson and Joey ending up together, as they wanted their characters, Joey and Pacey, together. They got their way.

** Creator/CharlieHunnam auditioned for [[TheDanza Charlie]]. It was here that he met his wife Katharine Towne, who also auditioned.

* DawsonCasting: The TropeNamer. In the second season, 22 year-old Creator/JamesVanDerBeek (Dawson), 26 year-old Kerr Smith (Jack), and ''29-year-old'' Meredith Monroe (Andie) play high school sophomores, who are typically 15 or 16. The series finale got quite a few jokes about the five year TimeSkip in the final scene being a genius move, as suddenly everyone looked only five years older than they were supposed to, rather than ten years.
* DirectedByCastMember: Kerr Smith and Joshua Jackson each directed an episode during the show's sixth and final season. Smith has almost no lines in the episode he directs; Jackson doesn't even appear during his, probably to help him focus on his debut as a director ''while directing celebrities'' Creator/AdamCarolla and Drew Pinsky AsThemselves.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Versions of the ''original'' "I Don't Want to Wait" credits needed to be hunted down by hand. To resolve this, Cole recorded a new version of the song, the "Artist's 20th Anniversary Edition", for her 2016 live album, ''The Bright Red Feeling'', and wrote LoopholeAbuse into her contract to make sure it could be {{retcon}}ned back into the show. A re-recorded version of the famed theme song returned to Netflix in 2021.

* StarMakingRole: Creator/MichelleWilliams, Creator/KatieHolmes, Creator/JamesVanDerBeek and Creator/JoshuaJackson -- in that order. (Jackson -- the only actor with credits that predate this show's debut, due to his involvement in all three films of ''Film/TheMightyDucks'' -- was, ironically, the last of them to get a Creator page.)

** Upon having got hired back to write the finale, creator Creator/KevinWilliamson started scripting it with a clear vision that [[spoiler: Joey and Dawson would end up together.]] After penning the first half, he changed his mind and wrote the rest of it with his new decision after being told that internet polls favored the other pairing (much to the chagrin of some fans who believed those polls were hacked to make the other pairing look more popular then it actually was).
** Before leaving the series, Williamson was planning to pair Dawson with Andie at some point. He was reportedly unhappy to find out that his successors decided to have Andie go down the mental breakdown route instead.

* ExecutiveVeto: Supposedly, Dawson was originally meant to be gay like the creator Kevin Williamson but {{Executive Meddling}} vetoed the idea and Jack was created instead. TheWorldWasNotReady.

** Upon having got hired back to write the finale, creator Kevin Williamson started scripting it with a clear vision that [[spoiler: Joey and Dawson would end up together.]] After penning the first half, he changed his mind and wrote the rest of it with his new decision after being told that internet polls favored the other pairing(much to the chagrin of some fans who believed those polls were hacked to make the other pairing look more popular then it actually was).

* OneMarioLimit: Nellie Oleson shares her name with a character from ''Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'', an entitled and highly attractive girl who serves as a rival to the narrator. Considering the similarities between the characters, it's a wonder Williamson was able to get away with it.

* NamesTheSame: Nellie Oleson shares her name with a character from ''Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'', an entitled and highly attractive girl who serves as a rival to the narrator. Considering the similarities between the characters, it's a wonder Williamson was able to get away with it.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: This was the case in several Spanish-speaking countries, since the original title would could be difficult (or confusing) to pronunciate in those ones.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: ''Dawson crece'' (''Dawson Grows'') in Spain. Not really 'completely different', since it probably was choosen for the phonetical simlarities and for mainting Dawson's name on the title.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Versions of the ''original'' "I Don't Want to Wait" credits needed to be hunted down by hand. To resolve this, Cole recorded a new version of the song, the "Artist's 20th Anniversary Edition," for her 2016 live album, ''The Bright Red Feeling'', and wrote LoopholeAbuse into her contract to make sure it could be {{retcon}}ned back into the show. (A version of) The famed theme song returned to Netflix in 2021.

** Upon having got hired back to write the finale, creator Kevin Williamson started scripting it with a clear vision that [[spoiler: Joey and Dawson would end up together.]] After penning the first half, he changed his mind and wrote the rest of it with his new decision.