This episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Editing.
The only time Ron Howard (Ronny, age 15) appeared on the series; almost four years before American Graffiti.
This episode is the only shared credit of Ken Curtis and James Best, other than their having co-starred a decade earlier in the cult horror camp classic The Killer Shrews (1959), which Curtis also produced. Over two decades after Curtis's 1991 passing, Best would return for a sequel, Return of the Killer Shrews (2012), which would be his penultimate role before his own 2015 passing.