 Hatem, Wolpert, and Patmore researched various supernatural and religious folklore and found that most of those types of encounters could "find a nexis in ["Miracles"], and [they] could do all kinds of stories".The three also agreed that "["Miracles"] could not be a show about the Catholic Church [...] ABC was not interested in taking that on".Hatem referenced in the "Miracles" DVD interview a short-lived series that aired on ABC during the 1997–98 season called "Nothing Sacred", which centered on the Catholic Church in the 1970s.