While the TV repairman is fixing the television, numerous voices can be heard. One of them is Rod Serling saying, "Next time on The Twilight Zone (1959)..."
Joe Britt is surprised at getting Channel 10. When television began, it was broadcast over the very high frequency (VHF) band of the radio spectrum. The VHF channels were 2-13, but, to avoid interference, a city could not have channels with consecutive numbers, except for 4 and 5 or 5 and 6. Britt lives in New York, which had channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13.
In Rod Serling's intro he says "really big shoe", which was a common comical parody of Ed Sullivan's manner of opening his program by saying he had a "really big show" (pronouncing it "shoe").
According to The Twilight Zone Companion, Martin Goldsmith was brought in to write this episode, due to his previous collaboration with William Froug on Playhouse 90 (1956). According to Froug, Goldsmith came up with a notion of a guy looking at his own extramarital activities on TV and trying to turn it off before his wife could see it. Goldsmith disowned the episode, saying, "I didn't like it, it lacked all subtlety the way it was done. I think Joan Blondell and William Demarest overplayed it. It was just too broad."
Joseph and Phyllis Britt were married in 1937.