After the opening teaser, the story opens on a western movie set and depicts an extended fist fight that begins in a bar and tumbles out into the street. The uncredited director of the western fight scene, who shares a few words with Joe Mannix, is played by Bruce Geller. Geller was the creator of "Mission: Impossible" and the producer of this season of "Mannix"; this is one of only two on-screen acting appearances by Geller. (His only credited screen acting role was in the 1975 TV movie "Fear on Trial," in which he played his own father, Judge Abraham Geller, in a landmark court case.)
This was the first appearance of Joe Mantell on the show. He would subsequently play another character named Albie, a slightly odd fellow who'd help Mannix by doing his legwork, but after a few appearances he would disappear and never be seen again..
7 years after this, Joe Mantell and Roy Jenson both appear in Chinatown (1974).