Marion McCargo, who plays the victim, is the mother of William R. Moses, who played Ken Malansky in the later Perry Mason movies.
At the hearing, Sibyll's lawyer testified that she had wanted a divorce, but could not get one because she did not have grounds for a divorce. At the time in California, in order to get a divorce where there was no mutual consent between the parties to a marriage, one (and only one) party had to allege and prove that the other party committed specific acts, such as adultery, physical or mental cruelty, abandonment, etc. The other party could contest the allegations, which often led to lengthy, contentious and expensive divorce proceedings. In 1969 California passed the first no-fault divorce law in the U.S., which added "irreconcilable differences" as grounds for divorce. Only one party need allege and show irreconcilable differences in order to obtain a divorce. With the enactment of New York's no-fault divorce law in 2010, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have no-fault divorce.
The music for this episode is the same as in the episode Elegy (1960) of the original Twilight Zone series.
When Miss Wynne is testifying, there's a shot of her with the judge over her right shoulder. The judge looks like he's asleep.
Gilbert Green and Jason Evers played a pair of mobsters who were father and son in the 1977 Rockford Files episode Requiem for a Funny Box.