One of the characters is named Sam Loomis. Six months after this episode aired, Hitchcock would use the name Sam Loomis in his film Psycho (1960). Eighteen years later, Donald Pleasence would play a character named Sam Loomis in Halloween (1978), which also co-starred Jamie Lee Curtis, whose real-life mother Janet Leigh starred as Marion Crane, girlfriend of Sam Loomis in Psycho (1960).
Leading composer Ernest Gold wrote some early stock music for this show. In this segment the scene with the dog in the boat is tracked with music from Gold's pilot score for Fury (1955). The cue was repeated countless times during Fury's run.