Featured player Strother Martin was so in love with this story that he ordered a print for personal viewing. He would go on to play in many more features with Sam Peckinpah as writer and/or director.
Kitty sports a new "beauty mark" (a small mole on her right cheek) that she keeps for the remainder of the series.
This is the first time Matt wears a "Buscadero" holster. This style of holster was invented in the 1920's and used by Hollywood cowboys. The holster and gun belt are a single piece instead of a holster that slides over a gun belt as Matt wears in previous episodes.
Matt has a new pistol with stag-horn grips that he uses from now on in the series.
The "Buscadero" gun belt/holster combination and the nickel-plated pistol Matt Dillon uses for the first time in the "Gunsmoke" series are the same gun belt/holster and pistol James Arness wears as the lead character in the 1956 feature film "Gun the Man Down."