Bill Daily who portrays the new father who picks up the orphan who spent Christmas with the Stevens, had just adopted a son himself before getting a similar role.
Cecil Kellaway, who plays Santa in this episode, also played the part of Jennifer's (Veronica Lake) father (Daniel) in the 1942 film I Married a Witch (1942), which is one of the films to which Bewitched owes its birthright, according to its creator, Sol Saks.
The title is from the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement Clarke Moore first published in Troy, New York in 1823.