This episode, and the previous one, Don't Look Back: Part 1 (1988), originally aired as a TV film called "In the Heat of the Night: The Case of the Voodoo Murders". The producers of the series later edited the film into episodes of the show.
This episode and Don't Look Back Part 1 are the first episodes to be shot in Covington Georgia which was used in the First 5 episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-1985)