Geoffrey Lewis, who plays Sam Galender in this episode, would later return in season 9's "The Older Brothers" as Cole Younger (making him the only Little House guest star to play two different titular characters).
There was something of an implausible age difference between the Galender "brothers". Bubba was around 15/16 years old, yet the actors playing his brothers were 41 and 49 at the time of filming.