Kitty sports a new "beauty mark" (a small mole on her right cheek) that she keeps for the remainder of the series.
Featured player Strother Martin was so in love with this story that he ordered a print for personal viewing. He would go on to play in many more features with Sam Peckinpah as writer and/or director.
This is the first time Matt wears a "Buscadero" holster. This style of holster was invented in the 1920's and used by Hollywood cowboys. The holster and gun belt are a single piece instead of a holster that slides over a gun belt as Matt wears in previous episodes.
Matt has a new pistol with stag-horn grips that he uses from now on in the series.
The "Buscadero" gun belt/holster combination and the nickel-plated pistol Matt Dillon uses for the first time in the "Gunsmoke" series are the same gun belt/holster and pistol James Arness wears as the lead character in the 1956 feature film "Gun the Man Down."