This episode reunites director Christian Nyby and actor Robert Cornthwaite, who previously worked together on The Thing from Another World (1951). In this episode, Cornthwaite plays a nervous and frustrated director who has to deal with a vain, bumbling cowboy actor. On the DVD commentary, Cornthwaite states that Nyby told him to play the director character as a funny version of Nyby himself. Cornthwaite praised Nyby's sense of humor.
In the "showdown" sequence, when Rance McGrew is backing away from Jesse James, the funeral parlor comes into view and reveals that the funeral director is C. Nyby. This episode is directed by Christian Nyby.