Guest star Gene Roth had previously worked with Dan Blocker in the Three Stooges short Outer Space Jitters (1957), in which Blocker played an alien zombie and had his billing misspelled as "Don Blocker."
Guest star Terry Becker who plays a character in this episode named "Shukie" would later portray the similarly named Chief Sharkey as a regular in the classic sci-fi series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964).