This is the first of eight episodes to be written by Earl Hamner Jr., creator of the popular family dramas The Waltons (1972) and Falcon Crest (1981).
Who's your daddy: Guest star Albert Salmi will six years later play Clint Howard's father in The House on Hyde Street (1973).
Actors Dennis Weaver and Albert Salmi will cross professional paths again in a later episode of this series, in an episode of Weaver's subsequent series The Concrete Corral (1970), and in the TV movie Female Artillery (1973).
Guest star Albert Salmi will return as a different character (Hobo Jim) in the second season episode Knights of the Road (1968).