For its original network broadcast, Steve Allen and Gary Coleman performed hosting duties, appearing in skits at the commercial breaks.
This film adaptation ends with Ichabod arriving at Katrina's house rather than having his mysterious disappearance like in Washington Irving's original novel. The Headless Horseman rides back into the dark forest afterwards.
A Squire is man of high social standing who owns and lives on an estate in a rural area, especially the chief landowner in such an area.
Brom Bones did not have a close companion named Frederic Dutcher in the original novel, but he did have a gang who assisted him in playing on tricks on Ichabod throughout the town.
In the book, the battle in which the Hessian soldier lost his head is not named. In this version, Ichabod Crane states that he lost his head in The Battle of Yonkers.