Until episodes became available on VHS and DVD, this was one of four "lost" episodes of
The Twilight Zone (1959) that were not included with syndication packages during the 1960s through the 1980s. The other three were
Miniature (1963),
Sounds and Silences (1964), and
The Encounter (1964). This episode, "Miniature," and "Sounds and Silences" were excluded from the package because of lawsuits that had been filed claiming those episodes were plagiarized. "The Encounter" had drawn complaints of anti-Japanese prejudice and epithets expressed by one of the characters. The episodes were finally re-released for broadcast television in a 1983 special hosted by
Patrick O'Neal, the lead actor of "Fountain".