The TV interview program in the opening segment is based on Person to Person (1953), which sent TV cameras to remote locations for live celebrity interviews with the in-studio host - Edward R. Murrow for the first six seasons and Charles Collingwood for the last two. As in the opening segment, interviewees often acted startled that they were on TV, despite the room full of TV equipment and crew.
With WIlliam Talman not appearing in the role of Hamilton Burger in this segment, the opening credits sequence has a freeze frame as Perry takes the folder and heads for the defense & prosecution desks, so that the other regulars are not shown, and a credit card for Hale, Hopper and Collins is superimposed (minus the missing Talman).
Guest cast members Les Tremayne and Robert Ellenstein had both previously appeared in the Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest (1959).
Truman Bradley's character is listed as "Narrator", but he doesn't narrate anything. He is the interviewer on the TV show seen at the start of the episode.