Actress Sherry Jackson was the step-daughter of Montgomery Pittman, who wrote and directed this episode. The two of them later worked together on The Twilight Zone episode "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" (1962).
Lance Fuller who plays Earl Battle, also appeared in The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank. His character Orgram was the brother of the character Comfort - played by Sherry Jackson.
Sherry Jackson who plays Rebecca here was only four years older than Johnny Crawford. Born in 1942, she was only 16 years old when this was made (1958), and Crawford, born in 1946, was 12. The actors playing her brothers were much older. Dan Blocker was 30 (b 1928), and Mort Mills much older still at 39 (b 1919). Chuck Conners, her prospective husband, was also well over twice her age at 37 (b 1921).