This would be the third time that John Larch worked with David Janssen. Larch would appear one more time with Janssen, as a guest star on Operation: Good Citizen (1972).
Second appearance by Beau Bridges as a lawbreaker with a father prepared to break the law to protect him.
The narrator William Conrad played Matt Dillon on the radio series 'Gunsmoke' and cast member Parley Baer played Chester on the same series.
Joseph Campanella and David Janssen's careers coincided only in this series, this episode being the third of four in which the two men appear, the others being The End Game (1964), Set Fire to a Straw Man (1965), and The Judgment: Part I (1967).