Shelley Winters' character is named Shirley Schrift, Winters' real name.
This episode reunited Jack Albertson with Shelley Winters more than two years after the two had played husband and wife Manny and Belle Rosen in the classic disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Later that year they were both among the performing comics on the special Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Valerie Harper (1975) along with dais regular Red Buttons who had been one of their fellow "Poseidon" passengers.
Shelley Winters receives a Special Guest Star credit.