This script was originally written for the fifth season The Twilight Zone (1959), but it was canceled, along with several other scripts, when producer William Froug replaced Bert Granet.
John Lithgow was given his doll by the prop department and "to this day it sits in my office as a reminder of myself as a younger actor" he says.
The surname of the shopkeeper is a German compound word meaning Love/Maker.
John Lithgow won his first Emmy for this role.