This is the first time Matt tells someone, "Get out of Dodge."
Wanted posters seen in Dillon's office are for William H. Bonney, aka Billy The Kid, and Black Bart aka Charles Earl Bowles, a notorious stagecoach robber.
John Dehner performed in approximately half of the 480 episodes of the radio version of "Gunsmoke".
Matt is seen for the first time riding his moccasin horse.
The first of an even-dozen credited appearances by prolific character actor John Dehner in this television series. He had earlier auditioned for the part of "Matt Dillon" in the Radio version of "Gunsmoke", but, declined the role out of concern he would be typecast into cowboy characters. Ironically, he later accepted the lead role as "Paladin", in the Radio adaptation of "Have Gun - Will Travel", a western.