The same license plate, VT 722, is on Melissa Stevens' car in this episode and is on the Chevrolet driven by Mayberry's new Mayor Stoner (Parley Baer) in "Andy and the New Mayor."
After this episode aired in October 1961, Beverly Tyler's last on-screen appearance came a month later, in Everybody's Thankful But Us Turkeys (1961). She married in 1962 and the couple later moved to Reno, where she appeared in several local theater productions until officially retiring in 1990.
This episode was remade as "Marry Me, Marry Me" (Season 3, Episode 10) of Gomer Pyle: U.S.M.C.
The dispatch radio in the Sheriff's Office, seen sitting beside the gun rack, is a Motorola, as indicated by the "M" insignia on the front.
One of the few episodes where Thelma Lou kisses Barney (although just on the cheek).