Although Chubby Checker was 47 years old when this episode was made, he played himself as a 17-year-old boy.
Usually 3 digit call letters like WOF were only designated for clear channel stations that transmitted 50,000 watts and could be heard coast to coast. The person cutting the transmission line would been electrocuted, not to mention would have multiple antennas.
The poem that Sam cites, though cannot clearly remember is 'The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats. What he believes to be the last line of the poem, "and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned; the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." is actually the end of only the first stanza.
Scott Bakula and Patricia Richardson previously worked together on the short lived sitcom Eisenhower & Lutz (1988).
This episode takes place in Peoria, Illinois from September 9 to September 11, 1959.