Guest stars Gavin MacLeod and Joe Turkel would five years later play the two sailors leaving behind Steve McQueen to sacrifice himself to save Candice Bergen in The Sand Pebbles (1966), and the two actors would work together once more two years later in the episode of Ironside (1967) titled Return of the Hero (1968).
This is the third of four stories that Gavin MacLeod appears in for this series, each time playing a different character. His career was soon to take off, playing recurring roles in several popular TV shows of the '60s, '70s, and '80s: most particularly as Happy in McHale's Navy (1962), Murray Slaughter in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970), and, perhaps best remembered, as Captain Stubing in The Love Boat (1977).