The first of Bruce Dern's five appearances in The Fugitive (1963) and the first of two times that he appears as a deputy sheriff, the second time occurring in The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1965).
Ruth White, appearing as Grams, and Sandy Dennis, as the granddaughter Cassie, made only one other appearance together in the movie Up the Down Staircase (1967).
This is the first of three appearances that R.G. Armstrong makes in the series, each time playing the role of a person in a position to enforce the laws of his community.
R. G. Armstrong and John Davis Chandler appeared together in the 1962 western "Ride the High Country." Armstrong portrayed Mariette Hartley's father and Chandler played the brother of the character played by James Drury, who was engaged to Hartley's character.