This was somewhat inspired by the 1949 real life story of three year old Kathy Fiscus. Like the two children in this film, little Kathy fell down an abandoned well. Sadly she died before her rescuers could save her; however, her story was one of the first televised news stories to be broadcast nationwide and proved to be a watershed moment in the history of television.
Lee Meriwether, plays the Mother of Buddy Foster, who was one of the children trapped down the well. They also played Mother and Son the same year (1969) of this episode's airing, in the film Angel in My Pocket (1969).