In the closing scene, after Ned (Alan Hale, Jr.) tells Jim he's going to spend a vacation on a desert island, a few notes from the theme of Gilligan's Island (1964) are played. Alan Hale played the main character Skipper on Gilligan's Island.
In addition to Alan Hale, Jr., who played the Skipper on Gilligan's Island (1964), the episode had Jim Backus in a guest starring role. He was Thurston Howell III on Gilligan's Island.
Artemis Gordon does not appear in this episode as actor Ross Martin was still recovering from a heart attack he had recently suffered.
Alan Hale, Jr. had previously appeared on the earlier Robert Conrad series Hawaiian Eye, episode "Dragon Road" (1961).
At the mortuary, Swan, a businessman, hands a note to West. It is written in Cursive Writing in a style known as The Palmer Method. This form of writing was not developed until 1888. The episode is set in the mid 1870's, so the "Spencerian Method" should have been used, as it was the major standardized system of writing from 1840 to about 1925. Examples of this writing form include the flourished letters of Coca Cola and Ford in their logos.