This episode contains the only instance of the original series where a character asks for Columbo's first name. Patrick McGoohan's Colonel Rumford inquires about it, to which Columbo replies, "I do (have a first name), but my wife is about the only one who uses it."
The campus scenes were filmed at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.
Of the four episodes of the series in which Patrick McGoohan appeared, this is the only one that he did not direct.