In this episode and many others like Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? (1961), a majority of the actors are smoking due to the demand of one of the Twilight Zone's sponsors, a cigarette company.
The phone book that Mr. Dingle rips in half is the June 1960 edition of the Los Angeles telephone directory.
Rod Serling had previously used the name "Mr. Dingle" for the main character (called Mr. Denton in the filmed episode) of Mr. Denton on Doomsday (1959).
The street where Dingle throws the football is the same street from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street (1960).