This is the first of two times that Sam leaped into a black man nicknamed "Magic." The second was in The Leap Home: Part 2 (Vietnam) - April 7, 1970 (1990).
The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Series.
The tie worn by Robert Gossett (loan officer Charles Griffin) is the same tie Sam wears as Charles Mackenzie during the wedding in the episode The Amercanization of Machiko (S2E3)
This episode takes place in Chicago, Illinois from September 4 to September 6, 1954.